CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 7O5 
723. 1. Attu Wren. 
Olbiorchilus meligerus OBERHOLSER. 1902. 
Attu island, Aletitian islands, Alaska, June 4th, 1894. Range, 
the westernmost islands of the American group. (Oberholser in The 
Auk, Vol. XVII., 1900.) 
CCLXXII. CISTOTHORUS Capanis. 1850. 
724. Short-billed Marsh Wren. 
Cistothorus stellaris (LICHT.) CAB. 1850. 
A male of this species was seen at London, Ont., in 1898, and 
several old nests were found but no females were seen. A colony 
was discovered and a specimen taken near the base of Point Pelee, 
May 14th, 1905. It was inhabiting a long-grass marsh. (W. E. 
Saunders.) I 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 in a wet meadow east of 
Toronto; there were no rushes near this place, but the grass was 
very rank. (C. W. Nash in The Auk, Vol. XIII., 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 a careful 
search none was found. (EF. A. Preble.) 
I found the birds to be rather plentiful along the Red river, in low 
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 Pem- 
bina in June. (Cowes.) A summer resident of erratic distribution 
in Manitoba; soon after the 1st 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 generaily 
placed in a grass tuft; if there is any difference I think the short- 
billed selects a drier situation for his home than the long-billed 
marsh wren. (E. T. Seton.) A tolerably common summer resident 
at Aweme, Manitoba. Arrives about the last of April. (Criddle.) 
A few specimens seen at lakes ten miles south of Indian Head, Sask., 
in May, 1892. (Spreadborough.) 
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