244 TIMELIIDJi;. 



washed with fulvous ; quills ashy brown below, whitish along the 

 edgo of the inner web ; " bill dusky above, pale brownish yellow 

 beneath; feet pale flesh-colour ; iris dark hazel" (ylHf?«6o)i). Total 

 length 3-S inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-G5, tail 1-35, tarsus 0-6. 

 (^Mks. Saluin and Godmcni.) 



The Short-billed Marsh-Wren is distributed throughout the Eastern 

 province of the United States from Georgia to the British posses- 

 sions and from the Atlantic to the Upper Missouri. It is irregidarly 

 distributed and nowhere abundant. 



a, h. Ad. sk. North America. 



4. Cistothoms platensis. 



Roitelet de But^nos Ayres, Dtvihent. PI. Enl. vi. pi. 730. fig. 2. 

 Sylvia platensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 548. 



Bas-acaraguay, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 19 ; Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 10. 

 Troglodytes platensis, Viedl. N. Diet, d' Hist. Nut. x.xxiv. p. 510 ; 



id. 4'- Bonn. Enc. Mcth. ii. p. 472 ; Naum. Viiff. Deutschl. iii. table 



to p. 724; d'Orb. Voy. Amer. merid. Zool.^. 231; Dane. Vmj. 



Beaqlc, Birds, p. 75; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 158; Bp. Consp. i. p. 222; 



Goidd, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 95 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 191, no. 2608. 

 Ilylemathrous platensis. Max. Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iii. p. 742 ; Cab. 



J.f. O. 18(30, p. 406. 

 Thryothorus platensis, Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 10 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. 



pp. 48, 414. 

 Troglodyte demarais?, Ilomhr.et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 19. 



tig. 6. 

 Thrvothorus eidouxi, Bp. Consp. i. p. 221 *. 

 Cistothorus platensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 384 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 22 ; Scl. S,- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 7. 

 Cistothorus fasciolatus, Burm. J. f. O. 1860, p. 252 ; id. Beis. La PI. 



Staat. ii. p. 470 ; Scl. 8f Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 159. 



Adult. General colour above pale sandy brown, varied with black 

 streaks, the feathers being edged with this colour, some of the dorsal 

 plumes mesially streaked with huffy white ; head darker sandy brown, 

 streaked with black ; the hind neck paler sandy buff, with narrower 

 dark sti'eaks ; scapulars resembling the back and similarly streaked ; 

 lesser wing-coverts uniform sandy brown, the median and greater 

 series spotted with blackish, these spots arranged in the latter coverts 

 so as to form bars ; primary-coverts brown with pale tips ; quills 

 light brown, margined with pale sandy buff, the secondaries notched 

 with blackish brown on the outer webs, the inner secondaries barred 

 with broad spots of the same colour ; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 dark sandy brown, barred across with blackish brown, the dark 

 bars less distinct on the outer feathers, which have paler tips ; lores 

 and a narrow eyebrow isabelline colour ; ear-coverts and cheeks 

 sandy buff, the former narrowly streaked with blackish on their 

 hinder margin ; under surface of body sandy buff, paler on the 

 tliroat, and deepening on the flanks and sides ; centre of the body 

 and abdomen isabelline colour; under tail-coverts sandy buft', with 



* Type exaiuined in Paris Museum. 



