556 KORTn AMERICAX BIRDS. 



ceous, the latter (often the former also) immaculate ; chest more or less 

 tinged with oehraccous ; length 3.75-4.50, wing 1.72-1.90 (1.78), tail 

 1.58-1.70 (1.61), culmen .40, bill from no.stril .24-.28 (.25), tarsus .60-.62 

 (.61). Eggs .63 X -48. Hub. Eastern United States and more southern 

 British Provinces, west to Groat Plains (to Utah Lake, Utah?); win- 

 tering in Gulf States. 



724. C, stellaris (Light.). Short-billed Marsh Wren. 

 b-. Upper tail-coverts and rump rusty brown, sometimes barred with dusky, 

 but usually quite plain ; hind-neck usually distinctly streaked with 

 dusky ; chest scarcelj-, if at all, tinged with buff; otherwise like C. stel- 

 laris ; wing 1.64-1.75 (1.72), tail 1.50-1.80 (1.63), culmen .41-.47 (.43), 

 tarsus .65-.70 (.68). Hab. Eastern tropical America, from eastern 

 Mexico (Vera Cruz) to Brazil, Bolivia, etc. 



C. polyglottus (ViKiLL.). Southern Marsh Wren.' 

 a'. Bill as long as head, the culmen equal to or lunger than middle toe, without 

 claw ; hind claw longer than the toe ; lower parts pure white medially ; eggs 

 pale chocolate-brown or deeper chocolate, sometimes nearly uniform, but usu- 

 ally finely sprinkled with a deeper shade of the ground-color (the latter 

 sometimes light isabella-color). (Subgenus Telmatodijtes Cabanis.) 

 h\ Culmen usually decidedly longer than middle toe, without claw; bars on 

 middle tail-feathers usually indistinct or incomplete ; tail-coverts (above 

 and below) usually without distinct bars, sometimes with none at all ; 

 length 4.25-5.50, wing 1.80-2.12 (1.95), tail 1.60-1.90 (1.80), culmen .50- 

 .61 (.54), bill from nostril .34-.41 (.38), tarsus .70-.80 (.76). Eggs .66 X 

 .46. Ilab. Eastern L^nited States and British Provinces, wintering in 



Gulf States 725. C. palustris (AVils.). Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



b^. Culmen not decidedl}-, if any, longer than middle toe, wiilmut cluw (some- 

 times a little shorter) ; bars on middle tail-feathers usually very distinct 

 and continuous; tail-coverts (upper and lower) usuallj' distinctly barred 

 with blackish ; brown of upper parts apprcciablj- less rustj' ; length 

 about 4.50-5.75, wing 1.95-2.22 (2.06), tail 1.80-2.05 (1.92), culmen .48- 

 .55 (.51), bill from nostril .31-.37 (.34), tarsus .68-.78 (.72). Eggs .62 X 

 .49. Hab. Western United States, east to Eockj- Mountains (to Great 

 Plains?); south, in winter, over talile-lands of Mexico, to Guatemala. 

 (91.) 725(7. C. palustris paludicola Baiud. Tula Wren.' 



■ Thryothorui polyglollut ViEiLL., Nouv. Diet. xxiv. 1819, 59. Cittothorut polt/glottut Pelz., Orn. Bras. 

 1871, 48. 



' Clmntlinmii pnluAtria vnT. paluilicoln BAinn, Review Am. B. i. Sept. 1861, 1 IS. 



Note. — The vcrimoulnr name is deriveii from the Spanish word liitr, meaning a kind of rush {Srirput mli- 

 rfi/») which in the valleys of California and other portions of the western country forms extensive marshes. 

 These marshes are called Itilet, pronounced as if spelled too'layt. 



This race was not recogniicd by the A. 0. U. Committee, but it rests on quite as good a basis as Trr<<]- 

 lodytei alJon parkmanii and several other accepted forms. 



