706 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
CCLXXIT. TELMATODYTES Capzanis. 1850. 
725. Long-billed Marsh Wren. 
Telmatodytes palustris palustris (WILSON) COUES. 1868. 
One procured at Godthaab, Greenland, in May, 1823. (Arct. 
Man.) The first specimen taken in the province of New Brunswick 
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 Céte St. Paul, 
and Mr. W. W. Dunlop has seen them on Nun island, above the 
Victoria bridge. I found a pair nesting in the bullrushes and rank 
herbage at the mouth of Laprairie. (Wznitle.) 
A common summer resident around Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, 
Vol. V.) One of the commonest birds in eastern Ontario about the 
St. Lawrence below Kingston. Sometimes remaining until the 
middle of September. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Common summer 
resident at Toronto, Ont. (J. H. Fleming.) 
BREEDING NoTEs.—Builds a large bulky nest in reeds in marshes 
around Ottawa. The nest is made of tops of grasses and reeds 
worked into a ball with a hole in one side, lined with fine grass. 
Eggs, 6 to 8, of a rich dark chocolate or so spotted with chocolate 
as to make the ground colour appear to be chocolate. (G. R. White.) 
Breeds abundantly in the marsh behind my house at Kew Beach, 
Toronto. (W. Raine.) On June 6th, 1903, I visited the Lake 
Francis marshes near Summertown, Ont., where I found many nests 
of the long-billed marsh wren. The globular nests were everywhere, 
and resembled those of the field mouse but were very strongly woven 
with rushes with a lining of feathery down from the bullrushes. The 
entrance was a small round hole in the side, which, in the first nest, 
I did not really find, but later I observed that it invariably opened 
out between the rushes to which the nest was fastened. The nesting 
sites were chiefly in clumps of last year’s rushes, when they were 
composed of dead material. Many birds, however, fastened their 
nests to the long rank grasses which covered the marshes where the 
water was only a few inches deep. In the latter choice, green grasses 
were used in building, the wrens thus blending the colour of their 
