146 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
Smith- |Collec-|} Sex When 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Collected Received from Collected by 
No. No. | Age. 
7,143 | 267 .. | Ft. Steilacoom,W.T.} Mar. 1854. Dr..Suckley... “|__| cassie 
17,434 | 436 do | Simiahmoo, W. T. | Dec. 22, ’59. A. Campbell. Dr. Kennerly. 
4,601 re .. | Columbia River. JAD LTC OOs te Crone | * 07) 9 ie ieee 
10,637 }1,117 og | Fort Tejon, Cal. so ie ATOMS ee lS 6 a eiaeieletele 
+ CISTOTHORUS, Cazanis. 
Cistothorus, Cas. Mus. Hein. 1850, 77. (Type Tvroglodytes stellaris, 
Licut., Naum.) — Telmatodytes, CaBANISs, Mus. Hein. 1850, 78. 
(Type Certhia palustris, Wiuson.) 
a. CISTOTHORUS. 
Cistothorus stellaris. 
Troglodytes stellaris, “ Licut.”” NAuMANN, Vogel Deutschlands, ITI, 1823, 
724 (Carolina).— Cistothorus stellaris, Cab. Mus. Hein. 77.—Batrp, 
Birds N. Am. 1858, 365.—Scuarer, Catal. 22, no. 142 (in part). 
Troglodytes brevirostris, Nutr. Man. I, 1832, 436.—Avup. Orn. Biog. II, 
1834, 427, pl. 175.—Is. B. A. II, 1841, 138, pl. 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 Ist 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. 
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Smith-/Collec-) Sex When / 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Collected Received from +} Collected by 
No. No. | Age. ; 
2,510 ae 3 Carlisle, Pa. Sept. 20, °45. 8: Baird.) a pees 
3,073 Re BS Liberty Co., Ga. 1846. Bs Jos. Leconte. 
8,829 Loup Fork of Platte. | Aug. 30. Lt. Warren. Dr. Hayden. 
Cistothorus elegans. 
Cistothorus elegans, ScuatER & SAuvin, Ibis, 1859, 8 (Guatemala). 
Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. 
I have not a very good series of specimens before me, although 
they seem to indicate that the C. elegans of Sclater & Salvin is really 
distinct from the northern bird, and that these authors have heen 
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 stellaris, 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 
