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everywhere, the accacia trees being often selected. The nest is usually a 

 rude platform of dried twigs, with a round depression in the middle lined 

 with iine roots, etc.; in this are laid three eggs, which vary considerably 

 in color and marking; clutches are rarely found to be alike. The general 

 color is pale green, spotted and blotched with brown; they measure 1.06 



X .74- 



72. Merula gymnopthalma {Cabati.). Yellow-eyed Grieve; 

 Thrush. — Not numerous; frequents the mango and other thick-leaved 

 trees. Its notes, heard in the mornings, are very musical and varied ; 

 one note in particular is a liquid metallic tinkle. The nest is usually com- 

 posed of dry roots and mud with no soft lining; the eggs are three in 

 number, pale green thickly spotted with brown, and measure 1.06 X -So. 



73. Margarops albiventris {Lmv>-.). Spotted Thrush. — This bird 

 was not seen here until after the terrible hurricane which devastated the 

 neighboring Island of St. Vincent on 11 September, 189S, when numbers 

 of them arrived, and it may now be considered as resident. 



A NEW LONG-BILLED MARSH WREN FROM EAST- 

 - ERN NORTH AMERICA. 



BY OUTRAM BANGS. 



At present there are confused under the name Cistothoncs 

 pahtstris (Wilson) two quite distinct birds ; one, true C. palustris, 

 breeding in the salt and brackish marshes of the Atlantic coast 

 from Connecticut southward ; the other inhabiting the inland 

 fresh-water marshes and extending north to Massachusetts, Onta- 

 rio and. southern Manitoba. The former, a small bird, has the 

 chin, throat and belly pure white and the breast is usually white 

 also, though sometimes faintly clouded with pale brownish, with 

 the rump, upper tail-coverts and scapulars dusky brown. The 

 latter is a decidedly larger form, in which the chin, throat and 

 belly are buffy or brownish white, the breast much more distinctly 

 clouded with brownish and the rump, upper tail-coverts and scap- 

 ulars reddish brown. 



My attention was first called to the differences between these 

 two Marsh Wrens by a series of winter specimens sent me by Mr. 

 Arthur T. Wayne of Mount Pleasant, S. C. Familiar with the 



