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TI. S. P. R. R, EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



Catal . Sex and 

 No. age. 



2563 

 2047 

 1061 

 1104 

 1103 

 7136 

 7138 

 7129 

 7134 



4541 

 5.116 

 7133 

 7133 



7127 

 7131 

 7130 



3970 



3971 

 9119 



C? 

 (? 



9 

 oo 

 oo 



9 

 3 



Locality. 



When col- 



lucti'd. 



Wlitnce obtained. 



Carlisle, Pa 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Fort Slcilacoom 



do 



Shoalwatcr bay, W. T 



Fort Vancouver, W. T 



Jan. 



,1855 



Washington Territory 



Pctaluran, Cal 



San Francisco. 



Cosumnes river 



Fort Tejon 



Los Nogales, Mexico, 



Devil's river, Texas.. 



Ringgold Barracks, Tex. Jan. 1.5, ie.53 



New Leon, Mex April — , 185J 



Santa Kosalia, Mex Mar — , 1853 



Mexico 



April 30, 1846 S, F. Baird. 



Mar- 29, 18«l do.... 



June 14, 1843 I do.. 



July 5, 1843 



do 



Feb. — , 1856 



June — , 1855 

 Dec. 29, 1853 



Dec. 29, 1856 

 May 8, 185B 



do 



do 



Dr. Suckley... 

 do 



Gov. Stevens. . 

 do 



do 



E. Samufls 



R. S. Williamson 

 do 



J X. de Vesey. .. 



Major Emory .... 

 do 



do 



Lieut. Couch . 



do 



M. Verreaux.. 



Orig'l 

 No. 



253 

 251 



158 



29906 



Collected by- 



Dr. Cooper . 

 do 



Dr. Suckley. 



Dr. Ileerniann 

 do 



Dr. Kenncrly.. 

 J. H. Clark .... 

 , do 



Length. 



5.16 

 5..''.0 

 4.91 

 4.91 



5.50 



5.00 

 5.00 



Stretch 

 of wings. 



7.16 

 7.32 

 6.75 

 6.75 



6.50 

 7.00 



5.25 



6.75 

 6.75 

 6.50 



6.50 



Wing. 



2 32 

 2.25 

 2.16 

 2.08 



1.75 

 3.13 

 2.25 



2.00 



Remarks. 



Iris brown. Ices gmy, bill 

 black and white. 



Eyes brown, leet light 



brown. 

 Eyes brown, leet lead.. 



CISTOTHORUS, Cab an is. 



Cistothorus, Cabajjis, Mus. Hein. 1850-'l, 77. Type Troglodytes stcUaris, 

 Telmatodyles, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850-'l, 78. Type Certliia palustris. 

 Thriolliorus, Vieillot, Analyse, 181G, according to G. R. Gray. See article on genus Thriolhorus. 



Cii. — Bill about as long as the head or much shorter, much compressed, not notched, gently decurved from tlie middle ; thegonys 

 slightly concave or straight. Toes reaching to the end of the tail. Tarsus longer than the middle toe. Hind toe longer than 

 the lateral, shorter than the middle. Lateral toes about equal. Hind toe longer than or equal to its digit. Wings rather 

 longer than the tail, all the feathers of which are much graduated ; the lateral only two-thirds the middle. The feathers 

 narrow. Hack black, conspicuously streaked witli white. 



Tlie excessive graduation of all the feathers of a tail shorter than the wings, in connexion 

 with stout feet and a hind Joe as long as or longer than its digit, appears to characterize this 

 group. I have drawn the characters to include both Cistothorus and Tdmatodytes of Cabanis, 

 as they are very closely related. The characters of these will be found under the sub-family 

 Troglodytinae. 



CISTOTHORUS (TELMATODYTES) PALUSTRIS, Cabanis. 



Long-billed Mnrsli Wren. 



Certhia palustris , "Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 58; pi. xii, f. 4. 



Troglodytes palustris, BoNAr. Obs. Wilson, 1824, No. 66. — Swainson, F. Bor. Am. 11, 1832, 319. — AnnnBON, Orn. 



Biog. 1, 1831, 51(0: V, 1839, 467; pi. 100.— Iii. Birds Anier. II, 1811, 135; pi. 123.— New- 



BEHiiv, ZwA. Cal. & Or Uoulo ; P. R. R. Rep. VI, iv, 1H57, 80. 

 TImjolhortts palustris, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 439.— Bon. List, 1838. 

 Tkryolhorus arundincus, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, XXXIV, 1819, 58. (Nut Troglodytes arundiiuiccus, Vieillot, Ois. 



Am. n, pi. cviii.) 

 Thryolhnrus arundinaccu^, Hokai'. Consp. 1850, 220. 

 Tdmatodytes urundinaceus , Cauanib, iVlus. Hein. 1851, 78. ( lyi><'.) 



