2l6 Brewster on a New Marsh Wren. I I"ly 



Scott's description of C. mariancc I referred them 1 to the latter 

 without much hesitation, attributing certain peculiarities which 

 they exhibited to individual variation. 



At the time I had only two specimens of mariance. There 

 are now before me forty, of which live, including the types, have 

 been kindly loaned by Mr. Allen from the collection of the Amer- 

 ican Museum, while one has been supplied by Mr. Manly Hardy, 

 the remaining thirty-four being contained in my own collection. 

 Of the total number, two were taken at Cedar Keys and thirty- 

 eight at Tarpon Springs, Florida. Of the supposed mariance 

 from our south Atlantic coast I have now ten specimens (a list of 

 which will be given later) and of C. palustris no less than eighty- 

 six skins, including many winter specimens from our Southern 

 States and illustrating certainly all the seasonal, and probably 

 most of the individual and geographical, variations to which the 

 last-named species is subject. 



This material shows conclusively that the peculiar Marsh 

 Wrens from Georgia and South Carolina, just alluded to, are 

 quite distinct from mariancc and represent a strongly character- 

 ized form which may be described as follows : — 



Cistothorus palustris griseus, new subspecies. Worth- 

 ington's Marsh Wren. 



Sitbsfecific. characters : Of the size and proportions of C. mariance 

 but with less black above and no distinct dark markings on the under tail - 

 coverts, flanks, sides or breast. General coloring very much paler and 

 grayer than in either mariance or palustris. Bill colored as in C. mariance. 



Type, $ (No. 19,008, collection of William Brewster, Sapelo Island, 

 Georgia, Nov. 17, 1887, W. W. Worthington) : Above including the wings, 

 tail, and the sides of the head and neck, hair brown with the faintest possi- 

 ble tinge of reddish on the hind back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; sides of 

 crown clove brown ; the feathers over a short, narrow area on the middle of 

 he back dull black with narrow white shaft streaks ; inner secondaries edged 

 with blackish ; upper tail-coverts and middle tad-feathers with indications of 



'The specimens here mentioned were recorded by me in the Auk (Vol. V, no. 4, 

 Oct., 1888, p. 432) as C. mariance, and this form was afterwards reported from Charles- 

 ton, South Carolina, by Mr. Wayne (Auk, Vol. VIII, no. 2, April, 1891, p. 239) and by 

 Mr. Ridgway (ibid., p. 240). I have not seen Mr. Ridgway's bird, but Mr. Wayne's — 

 for the identification of which I am responsible — was similar to the specimens taken in 

 Georgia by Mr. Worthington. 



