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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Locality. 



Ft. Steilacoom.W.T. 

 Simialimoo, W. T. 

 Columbia River. 

 Fort Tejoa, Cal. 



When 

 Collected. 



Mar. 1S.54. 

 Dec. 22, '59. 

 Jan. 27, '56. 



Received from 



Dr. Suckley. 

 A. Campbell. 



J. Xantus. 



Collected by 



Dr. Kennerly. 



CISTOTHORUS, Cabanis. 

 Cistothorus, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850, 77. (Type Troglodytes stellaris, 

 Light., Naum.) — Telmatodytes, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 78. 

 (Type Certhia palustris, Wilson.) 



a. Cistothorus. 



Cistothorus stellaris. 



Troglodytes stellaris, " Light." Naumann, Vogel Deutschlands, III, 1823, 

 724 (Carolina). — Cistothorus stellaris, Cab. Mus. Hein. 77. — Baied, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 365.— Sclater, Catal. 22, no. 142 (in part). 



Troglodytes brevirosiris, Nutt. Man. I, 1832, 436. — Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 

 1834, 427, pi. 175.— Ib. B. A. II, 1841, 138, pi. 124. 

 Hab. Eastern province of United States. 



(No. 3,073, Georgia.) Total length, 4.40 ; wing, 1.75 ; tail, 1.75, its gradua- 

 tion, .70 ; exposed portion of 1st primary, .65, of 2d, 1.06, of longest (measured 

 from exposed base of 1st primary), 1.25 ; length of bill from forehead, .45, 

 from nostril, .29 ; tarsus, .65 ; middle toe and claw, .61 ; hind toe and claw, 

 .55 ; claw alone, .26. 



Cistothorus elegaus. 



Cistothorus elegans, Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 8 (Guatemala). 

 Hab. Mexico aud Guatemala. 



I have not a very good series of specimens before me, although 

 they seem to indicate that the G. elegans of Sclater & Salvin is really 

 distinct from the northern bird, and tliat these authors have been 

 hasty in re-combining them. If not different species they at least 

 are well-marked varieties. The bill of elegans is considerably 

 stouter and larger than that of stella7-is, and the tarsi decidedly- 

 longer — the birds themselves being of much the same size. On the 

 back the white streaks do not reach so far back (nearly to the rump 



