32. CISTOTHORUS. 943 



inner web ; " iris brown " (A. Forrer). Total length 4-25 inches 

 culmen O-G, wing 2-1, tail l-i), tarsus O'S. 



Birds in worn or abraded plumage appear to have the head much 

 blacker, the margins to the feathers becoming worn off, when the 

 light sandy-brown crown, Avhich is visible in uewlv-moulted birds, 

 becomes almost merged in the blackish sides of the crown. Pro- 

 fessor Baird notices this peculiarity as belonging to birds from the 

 interior as compared with those of the Pacific coast. Specimens of 

 both forms, however, are in the iluseum from the same locality, and 

 the difference is due, I believe, to the state of plumage. 



The Western Long-billed Marsh-Wren rejjlaees^the foregoing 

 species in the middle province of the United States and on the 

 Pacific coast, whence it ranges from British Columbia to California. 



a. c? ad. sk. S. Juan, Viincouver Island. J. K. Lord, Esq fC 1 



b. Ad. sk. Sumass Prairie, Biiti^li Co- J. K. Lord, Esq. I C.l 



lumbia. 



c,d.S2 ad. sk. West side of Eockv Mountains. J. K Lord, Esq fP 1 



e. Ad. sk. California. Purelia-'ed. 



/. cJ ad. sk. Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, A. Forrer TC 1 



Dec. 31. ' o ; . .J. 



g. Ad. St. North America. Baron Laugier. 



3. Cistothorus stellaris. 



Troglodrtes stellaris, Naum. Vng. Uciifschl iii. p. 724 ; Bp. Consp. i, 



p. 220 ; Gray. H„nd-L B. i. p. 190, no. 2603. 

 Troglodytes brevirostiis,.Y«#/. Trans. Amer. Acad. Arts &■ Sd new 



series, i. p. 08; id Man. 1832, p. 436; Avdvb. B. Amer. p] 'l7-5 • 



id.Orn. Bto(,r. ii. p. 427 : Bp. Comp. List B. Bin: &• X. Amer. 



p. 11 ; AM. B. Amer. 8vo, ii. p. 138, pi. 124 ; Graij, Gen. B. 1. 



p. lo8; ^y;. C'ojisjo. i, p. 222. ^ '^ ^ J, 



Cistothorus stellaris. Cab. Mus, Ilcin. Th. i. p. 77 ; Batrd in B N. 



A7ner 18-58, p. 36o ; Sol. Cat. Amer. B. p. 22 ; Baird, Bevieu- Amer. 



-o. p. 146 ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. X. H. i. p. .54."; , Coues, B. X.- 



West, p. 36 ; Baird. Brewer, ^- Bidqic. Hist. X. Amer. B. i.'p. 159 



pi. IX. fig. 7 ; Coues,_ B. Color. Vail. p. 1>'0. 

 Cistothorus brevirostris, Sd. A- Salv. liis, 1859, p. 8. 

 Thryothorus stellaris, THrnb. B. E. Pennsylv. p. 27. 



Adult. General colour above black, with small streaks along the 

 feathei-s: forehead brown, the streaks on the head very small ; the 

 mantle and back slightly varied with brown, some of "the feathers 

 being externally of this colour : upper tail-coverts also black, mesially 

 streaked with white, some of them barred near the base with black 

 and fulvous brown ; tail-feathers brown, barred across with darker 

 brown, the outer feathers uniform on the inner webs, barred with 

 brown and black externally and at the tips of both webs ; lores, 

 eyelid, and a narrow eyebrow dull white ; cheeks and ear-coverts 

 al.so dull white, the latter slightly mottled with duskv streaks ; throat 

 and centre of the body dull white; the breast, sides" of the bodv. and 

 flanks fawn-buff, varied with a few duskv bars before a white tip to 

 some of the feathers; under wiug-covcits and axillaries white, 



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