298 S YS TEMA TIC S YNOPSIS. — PA S SERES - OSCINES. 



troglodytes hiemaUs uf 2d-4tli eds. of Key. Anorthura hyemalis Coues and Prentiss, 1862. 

 A. hiemalis A. 0. U. Suppl. List, Auk, Jan. 1899, p. 125. 



A. h. pacif'icus. (Lat. pacificus, pacific, peace-making; pax, peace, and /ado, I make, do ; 

 alluding to " the stilly sea.") Western Winter Wren. Like the last; darker, iu lack of 

 whitish specks of upper parts, and of whitish bars on outer webs of primaries ; but very 

 slightly distinguished. Pacific Coast region, from Southern Alaska (Sitka) to southern Cali- 

 fornia; E. to Idaho. Anorthura troglodytes pacifims of 2d-4th eds. of Key. A. hiemalis 

 pacifica A. 0. U. Suppl. List, Jan. 1899, p. 125. 



A. alascen'sis. (Of Alaska.) Alaskan Winter Wren. Like the common species in form 

 and coloration; larger, size of a House Wren; wing 2.00-2.20; tail 1.50; tarsus 0.75; 

 tarsus, middle toe, and claw together 1.40; bill 0.65. Culmen, gape, and gonys almost per- 

 fectly straight, latter slightly ascending. Aleutian and Pribylov Islands, Alaska. Well dis- 

 tinguished from the common form, and nearer the Japanese A. fmnigatiis. Anorthura troglo- 

 dytes alascensis of 2d-4th eds. of Key. 



TELMATO'DYTES. (Gr. reX/ia; ^eZma, a swamp; Surjjr, dides, an inhabitant.) Marsh 

 Wrens. Small. Upper parts not uniform ; back streaked lengthwise with white and black ; 

 flanks scarcely or not barred ; crown plain ; bill |-f as long as head. Eggs dark chocolate- 

 brown. Nest globular, bulky, with a hole in the side, aflfixed to reeds in swamps or marshes. 



Analysis of Species and Subspecies. 



Basal third of lower mandible flesh color. 



Middle tail feathers and upper tail coverts indistinctly barred, if at all. Eastern paluslris 



Middle tail featliers and upper tail coverts more distinctly barred. Western p'diistris pnlujicola 



Lower mandible almost entirely horn color. 



General coloration paler and more uniform than in palustris, but breast clouded. S. Carolina and Georgia 



paliis/iis griseus 

 General coloration darker and less uniform than in paluslris; black of upper parts extensive, brown of under 

 parts with an olive shade, breast clouded, barring of tail and its coverts well marked. W. coast of Florida 



maria?ice 



T. palus'tris. (Lat. 2)fdustris, marshy ; jxdus, a mansh. Figs. 157, 158.) Long-billed 

 Marsh Wren. Above clear brown, unbarred ; middle of back with a large black patch sharply 



streaked with white (these white stripes sometimes defi- 

 cient). Crown of head usually darker than back, often 

 quite blackish and cimtinuous with black interscapular 

 patch. A dull white superciliary line. Wings fuscous ; 

 inner secondaries blackish on outer webs, often barred or 

 indented with light brown. Tail evenly barred with 

 fuscous and color of back. Under parts white, usually 

 quite pure on belly and middle line of breast and throat, 

 but much shaded with brown on sides, flanks, and cris- 

 FiG. 157. — Long-billed Marsh Wren, nat. suiii. Bill blackisli above, pale below ; feet brown. 

 Bize. (Ad. nat. del. E. c.) Length about 5.00; extent 6.50; wing 1.75-2.00; tail 



about the same ; bill 0.50 or more; tarsus 0.66-0.75. Eastern U. S. and British Provinces, 

 even casually to Greenland. Breeds throughout its usual range, and winters chiefly in the 

 Soutliern .States, sometimes N. to New England ; an abundant bird, colonizing reedy swamps 

 and marshes in large numbers, its great globular nests of plaited rushes, with a hole iu the 

 side, being affixed to the swaying herbage; eggs 5-10, 0.58 X 0.45, very dark-colored, being 

 so thickly dotted with chocolate-brown as to appear almost uniformly of this color. Telmato- 

 dytes palustris of 2d-4th eds. of the Key. 



T. p. gris'eus. (Lat. griseus, gray.) Worthington's Marsh Wren. A local race of T. 

 palustris ; paler and grayer, yet with dark under mandible, clouded breast, and some other 



