CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS 677 
gan, B.C., April 23rd, 1903; breeding in the district, but not com- 
mon. (Spreadborough.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Three; taken at Burnaby Lake, near Vancouver, B.C., April 
24th, 1889, by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
One set of four eggs taken at Burnaby Lake, near Vancouver, 
B.C., April 19th, 1889, by Mr. J. M. Macoun. 
725c. Western Marsh Wren. 
Lelmatodytes palustris plesius (OBERHOLSER) A.O.U. Com- 
MITTEE. 1903. 
North to British Columbia and Alberta east of the Rocky 
Mountains. A fall specimen from South Edmonton, Alberta, 
and one from Fort Brown, Texas, are much brighter tawny above 
than any of the others examined, but are both very much paler 
than palustris, A specimen from Cariboo road, British Columbia, 
is not perfectly typical of the present subspecies, but somewhat 
approaches paludicola in the generally duller and rather darker 
shades of the upper parts. (Oberholser in The Auk, Vol. XIV., pp. 
188-196.) 
Found in the interior of British Columbia, only breeding about 
the muddy margins of mountain lakes. (S¢veator.) I have found 
this bird only east of the Coast Range where it was very abundant 
around the lakes along the Cariboo road. (Fannin.) A few stay 
all winter at Lake Okanagan, B.C. (Svooks.) Observed a num- 
ber of individuals in a reedy pond, at Edmonton, Alta., May roth, 
1897, I think that they arrived much earlier ; common in tall 
rushes around all the ponds and lakes, May 13th, on May 27th 
examined about 30 nests and obtained only one egg, on June Itoth 
found three nests, one with young ones and two with eggs nearly 
fresh, nests fastened to the rushes (Sczrpus lacustris), out in the 
water and made of grass; found a pair breeding at Peace 
River Landing, Lat. 56° 15’, July Ist, 1903. (Spreadborough.) 
This species was not observed till we reached the Rocky Moun- 
tains when a few were seen on marshy ground near Chief Moun- 
tain (Waterton) Lake. (Coues.) I place this record here where 
it evidenly belongs. (Macoun.) Mr. Drummond killed specimens 
of this wren on the eastern declivity of the Rocky Mountains on 
