32. CISTOTnORTTS. 2-il 



a''. Hind neck black, forehead brown, both streaked 

 with white ; back black, streaked with white ; 

 upper tail-coverts black, slig-htly barred with 

 fuh'ous and streaked with white ; tianks ful- 

 vous, with spots of white ; tail brown, with 



ashy fulvous cross markings steUaris, p. 243. 



h". General character of upper surface tawny, 

 streaked with blackish, the black streaking 

 broader on the mantle; upper tail-coverts 

 rufous; tail rufous, broadly barred with black ; 

 flajilvs yellowish buff, with no white spots . . />/afe?is?s, p. 244. 

 d'. Lower back and rump uniform rufescent brown, 

 not longitudinally streaked; upper tail-coverts 



rid'ous, with blackish cross bars polyglottus, p. 245. 



c. Crown uniform brown, without any black lateral 



band; tail regularly barred across with black .. bru7miceps,^.2i7. 



1. Cistothorus palustris. 



Motacilla palustris, Bartr. Trav. in Florida, 1791, p. 291. 

 Certhia palustris, Wilson, Amer. Orn. ii. p. 58, pi. xii. fig. 4. 

 Thryothorus arundineus, VieiU. Nouv. Diet. d'Ifist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 58. 

 Troglodytes palustris, lip. Jouni. P/iilad. Acad. iv. p. 30 ; Audiib. 



B. Amer. pi. c. ; Less. Traite, p. 400 ; Sicains. Faiin. Bor.-Amer., 



Birds, p. 319 (cum Jig.); Audub. Orn. Bioqr. i. p. 500; Nutt. 



Man. i. 18.32, p. 439; Audub. B. Amcr.'n. p. 135, pi. 123; 



Giraud, B. Long Isl. p. 76 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 290 ; Eeinh. 



Ibis, 1861, p. 5. 

 Thryothorus palustris, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. ^- N. Amer. p. 11 ; 



furnb. B. E. Pennsylv. p. 27. 

 Troglodytes arvmdinaceus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 158 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 190, no. 2G07. 

 TluTothorus arundinaceus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 220. 

 Telmatodytes arundinaceus. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 78, note. 

 Cistothorus (Telmatodytes) palustris, Baird in B. N. Amer. p. 364. 

 Cistothorus palustris, Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 22 (pt.) ; Blukist. 



Ibis, 1802, p. 5 ; Baird, Beriew Amer. B. p. 147 ; Maynard, B. 



Florida, p. 42 ; Baird, Brewer, 4'- Ridyio. Hist. N. Amer. B. p. 161, 



pi. ix. tig. 6 ; Salvin c^ Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 104. 

 Telmatodytes palustris, Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 87 ; id. B. N.- 



West, p. 34; id. Birds Colorado Vcdl. p. 178*. 



Adult. Similar to C. pahuJicola, but distinguished by the absence 

 of bars on the upper and under tail-coverts ; " bill dark browa 

 above, yellow beneath ; feet light brown ; iris hazel " (Audubon). 

 Total length 4'5 inches, culmen G'G, wing 2-15, tail 1-S5, tarsus 0-8. 



Ohs. Professor Baird speaks of the bill being longer in this species, 

 while bars arc somewhat apparent in certain specimens. In the 

 bird described I can see no appreciable difference in the bill, while 

 the barring on the tail-coverts is absent altogether. 



The Eastern Long-billed Marsh-^Yreu inhabits the Eastern pro- 

 vince of the United States, whence it extends into Canada, and has 

 even been reported from Greenland. It is this race which goes into 

 Mexico (s^iff. in AIus. S. ^' G.). 



* Cf. this work for numerous additional references. 

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