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almost as far north as it breeds. The regular winter range is discon- 

 tinuous. In the west it winters north to southwestern British Colum- 

 bia (Vancouver and the Okanagan Valley) . East to southern British 

 Columbia (Okanagan Valley) ; southeastern Washington (Walla 

 Walla) ; eastern Oregon (Malheur Lake) ; central Utah (Bear Kiver 

 Marshes and St. George) ; southern Nevada (Searchlight) ; southern 

 California (opposite Yuma) ; Sonora (Sonoyta) ; and Sinaloa (Ma- 

 zath'in). South to Sinaloa (Mazatlan) ; and Baja California (Santi- 

 ago and San Jose del Cabo) . West to the Pacific Ocean. The eastern 

 winter range is north to Texas (El Paso, Del Rio, Fort Clark, and 

 Dallas) ; southern Louisiana (Cameron and Mandeville) ; western 

 Florida (Pensacola) ; eastern Georgia (Okefenokee and Augusta) ; 

 and coastal North Carolina (Swanquarter and Cape Hatteras). East 

 to the Atlantic Ocean. South to southern Florida (Royal Palm Ham- 

 mock) ; the Gulf coast to southern Texas (Harlingen and Browns- 

 ville) ; and central Mexico (Veracruz, Jalapa; Hidalgo, Miraflores; 

 and Jalisco, Ocotlan). West to Jalisco (Ocotlan), Chihuahua (Chi- 

 huahua) , and western Texas (El Paso). 



The above range includes the entire species, which has been divided 

 into 10 subspecies or geographic races. The long-billed marsh wren 

 {T. p. palustris) breeds along the Atlantic coast from Rhode Island to 

 Virginia; Wayne's marsh wren {T. p. waynei) breeds on the coast of 

 North Carolina; Worthington's marsh wren {T. p. griseus) breeds 

 from South Carolina to Florida, east coast; Marian's marsh wren 

 {T. p. marianae) is found along the Gulf coast from Charlotte Harbor, 

 Fla., to Mississippi; the Louisiana marsh wren {T. p. thryophilus) oc- 

 curs in the coastal district of Louisiana and Texas ; the Alberta marsh 

 wren {T. p. laingi) breeds in Alberta and western Saskatchewan; 

 the prairie marsh wren {T. p. iliacus) breeds from the Great Plains 

 and Prairie district east to Quebec, New Brunswick, and New England ; 

 the western marsh wren {T. p. plesius) breeds from central British 

 Columbia, central Washington, central Oregon, and northeastern Cali- 

 fornia, east to central Colorado ; the tule wren {T. p. paludicola) breeds 

 in the coastal district from southwestern British Columbia to southern 

 California; and the Suisun marsh wren {T. p. aestuarinus) breeds in 

 the interior of California from Napa and Solano Counties south to 

 Tulare County. 



Spring migration. — Some late dates of spring departure are: 

 Florida — Daytona Beach, April 30. Georgia — Athens, May 24. North 

 Carolina— Chapel Hill, May 7. Texas— Lytle, May 12. 



Early dates of spring arrival are : Georgia — ^Macon, March 27. North 

 Carolina — Raleigh, April 14. District of Columbia — Washington, 

 April 17. Pennsylvania — Harrisburg, April 26. New Jersey — Cape 



