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Saunders.) IY have two specimens of this bird taken by Mr. C.W. 
Nash at Toronto. (/. H. Fleming.) On August 29th, 1891, I 
found and secured an adult female of this species in an old field 
north of Toronto, the bird was a long distance from any marsh or 
water; on June 7th, 1895, I captured an adult male ina wet 
meadow east of Toronto ; there were no rushes near this place, 
but the grass was very rank. (C. W. Nashin The Auk, Vol. XIIL., 
p- 347.) A male was taken in a wet meadow at Norway House, 
June 20th; from its actions it probably had a nest in the vicinity, 
but despite acareful search none was found. (4. A. Prebles.) 
I found the birds to be rather plentiful along the Red River, in 
lo v oozy ground, overgrown with scrub willows, and also in the 
reedy sloughs of the prairie. They were undoubtedly breeding 
here, though no nests were secured. My specimens were secured 
at Pembina in June. (Cowes.) A summer resident of erratic dis- 
‘tribution in Manitoba; soon after the Ist of May, every little 
sedgy pool and slough in the Assiniboine valley, from Carberry 
to Pelly, is vocal with the merry chatter of this bird. The nest 
is a globular structure, and judging by the one or two cases I have 
observed is generally placed in a grass tuft; if there is any differ- 
ence I think the short-billed selects a drier situation for his home 
than the long-billed marsh wren. (Zhompson-Seton.) A tolerably 
common summer resident at Aweme, Manitoba. Arrives about 
the last of April. (Vorman Criddle.) A few specimens seen at 
lakes ten miles south of Indian Head, Assa., in May 1892. 
(Spreadborough.) 
CCXLVII. TELMATODYTES Casanis. 1850. 
725. Long-billed Marsh Wren. 
Telmatodytes palustris dissaéptus (BANGS) THE Auk, Vol. 
OXON pa 3525 loo2: 
One procured at Godthaab, Greenland, in May, 1823. (Arcz. 
Man.) The first specimen taken in the province of New Bruns- 
wick was near St. John, October 3rd, 1895. Nothing more was 
noted of this species until September 23rd, 1900, when two were 
heard at Mud Lake, 15 miles east of Scotch Lake. (W. H. Moore.) 
A scarce summer resident at Montreal. The late Mr. Caulfield 
observed this species, May 24th, in some reeds around a pond at 
Cote St. Paul, and Mr. W.W. Dunlop has seen them on Nun’s 
