TELMATODYTES PALUDICOLA. 425 



Telmatodytes PALUSTEIS. 



liong-billed JTInrsh Wren. 



/?. paludicola — Talc Wren. 



Cistothorus palustris var, paludicola, Baird, Eeview Am. B., 1864, 148. — B. B. & 

 E., Hist. N. Am. B., I, 1874, IGL— Henshaw, 1875, 185. 



Telmatodytes pahistris, CouES, Key, 1872, 87 (part) ; Check List, 1873, No. 51 ; B, 

 N.W., 1874, 35 (part). 



Cistothorus [Telmatodytes) palustris (part), Baird, B. N. Am., 1858, 304; Cat. N. 

 Am. B., 1859, No. 208 (part).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 75. 



In all marshy localities where there existed even a limited growth of 

 tule.s, the Long-billed Marsh Wren was more or less abundant. It was 

 consequently found in numerous places, but it abounded most in those 

 extensive marshes adjoining the lower j^ortions of the Truckee, Humboldt, 

 and Jordan Rivers, it being so abundant at the latter locality that several 

 nests were often visible at one time in the thick growth of reeds. The 

 song of this "Wren is very pecuhar, being a confused sputtenng, scolding 

 harangue, somewhat similar to, but harsher and less pleasing than, the song 

 of Troglodytes a'edon. 



List of specimens. 



273, (? ad.; Truckee Meadows, Nevada, November 15, 1807. 5 J^—C J — 2/„— 1 } ? — ^"1; 

 — ii — l/;j — \^. Upper mandible, slaty-black; coD)missure and lower inaudible, lilace- 

 ouswhite, the latter more dusky terminally; iris, umber; tarsi and toes, delicate 

 brownish-white, strongly tinged with bluishlilaceous. 



370, 5 ad.; Truckee Bottom, near Pyramid Lake, December 25. 5|— 0| — 2-,\ — 13 — 

 J — ii — 2 — 5. Same remarks. Tarsi aud toes, deep light-brown, with yellowish tinge. 



737, uest and five eggs: Truckee Bottom, near Pyramid Lake, May 18, 1808. 

 Nest among reeds in deep water, near lake-shore. 



738, nest. Scame remarks as to preceding. 



950, S ad.; Deep Creek, Utah, October 5, 1868. 5|— 7— (1)— lif . Bill, black ; com- 

 missure and basal two-thirds of lower mandible, pure lilaceous; iris, umber; tarsi and 

 toes, deep sepia, the latter darkest. 



951, i ad.; 952, 9 ad.; 5|— 7J— (!)— li|. Same remarks. 



1010, 1011, 1012, 1013, 1014, 1015, May 21, 1809; 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, June 2, 

 1869; nests and eggs; Jordan Eiver (near Salt Lake City), Utah. Nests each attached 

 to several stalks of upright reeds, or tides, standing in the water, near nests of 

 Xanthocephalus icteroceplialus. Maximum number of eggs four, but the number prob- 

 ably sometimes exceeds this. 



1459, i juv.; Parley's Park (Wahsatch Mountains), Utah, July 20, 180;t. Jg— OJ. 



