242 TlMELirDiE. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. S ad. sk 



Fort Carlton (Capf. Bhikiston). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 Bellport, June 9, 1878 (_C. -S'. Smithsonian Institution 



Allen). [P.]. 



Ad. sk. North America. 



2. Cistothorus paludicola. 



Troglodvtes palustris {nee BaHr.), Gambel, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1846, 



p. 11.3 ; Keich. Pacijic Rail. Rep. vi. p. 80. 

 Troslodvtes anmdinaeeus, Ga7nhel, Journ. Philad. Acad. i. p. 3-3 ; 



Reiii/i. J.f. O. 18-54, p. 438. 

 Cistothorus" palustris, A'fl«/Ms, Pr. PJiilad. Acad. xi. p. 191 ; Cooper 



4- Siicklei/, Pacific Rail. Rep. x. p. 190; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 22 



(pt.) ; Cones, Ibis, 1865, p. 164; id. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1866, p. 78; 



Cuoper, B. Calif, p. 75 (cutnjif/.). 

 Telmatodytes palustris, Henry, Pr. Philad. Acad. xi. p. 107. 

 Cistothorus palustiis, var. paludicola, Baird, Revietc Amer. B. p. 148; 



Baird, Brewer, i^- Ridgiv. Hist. N.-A)ner. B. p. 161. 

 Telmatodytes palustris, var. paludicola, Yarr. S) Hensh. Rep. Orn. 



Specs. 1874, p. 9. 



Adult male (Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, Dec. 31 ; A. Forrer). 

 General colour above sandy or reddish brown, the scapulars and 

 rump uniform; mantle and centre of the back blacki.sh broTvn, 

 streaked with white ; crown of head and hind neck uniform pale 

 sandy brown, with a blackish-brown streak along the side of the 

 crown, widening on the nape ; lores and a streak over the eye dull 

 white ; in front of the eye a brown spot ; cheeks dull white, washed 

 with brown ; car-coverts light brown, darker on the hinder margin ; 

 sides of neck light ashy brown, streaked with dull white ; wing- 

 coverts light sandy brown, the least series somewhat washed with 

 ashv, the median and greater coverts spotted with blackish brown, 

 many of the median coverts varied with a subterminal spot of white ; 

 primary-coverts brown, with pale sandj-brown margins ; quills 

 brown, narrowly margined with ashy brown on the primaries ; the 

 inner secondaries barred on the outer web with black and pale 

 sandy brown, the pale bars inclining to dull -nhite on the outer 

 web ; the innermost secondaries mottled with pale sandj- brown and 

 black, not forming regular bars ; upper tail-coverts light sandy 

 brown, barred across with duskj- blackish, the bars very distinct ; 

 tail-feathers light brown, inclining to sandy brown, barred across 

 with blackish, about eleven bars being perceptible on the centre 

 tail-feathers, the other feathers much more broadly barred, especially 

 on the inner webs, where some of the bars become almost merged 

 together, on the outer feathers the light interspaces become dull 

 whitish on their margins ; throat dull white, shaded with pale sandy 

 brown on the fore neck ; sides of the bodj- pale sandy brown, the 

 centre of the breast and abdomen pure white ; thighs rather darker 

 brown ; under tail-coverts pale sandy brown, barred across with 

 white, the sandy bars also slightly marked with darker brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, slightly shaded w ith ashy 

 brown : quills dusky brown below, whitish along the edge of the 



