708 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
725d. Prairie Marsh Wren. 
Telmatodytes palustris uUiacus RIDGWAY. 1903. 
Great Plains and prairie districts north to South Edmonton, Alta., 
and probably east to Manitoba. (Rzdgway.) A common resident of 
marshes in eastern Manitoba. Mr. Hunter has noticed it from 
Selkirk to Souris, particularly at Shoal lake, north of Winnipeg, 
where they appear to be very common. I have never seen it at 
Carberry nor.on the upper Assiniboine. (EF. T. Seton.) A tolerably 
common summer resident at Aweme, Manitoba. (Criddle.) Abun- 
dant and breeding in all marshes of any size in Manitoba and west 
to Little Manitou lake in 1906. (Atkinson.) Three specimens of 
this species were secured at Chemawawin near the Grand Forks 
of the Saskatchewan. (Nutting.) Apparently a rare spring migrant 
at Indian Head, Sask. Only one individual seen June 5th, 
1892. Observed a number of individuals in a reedy pond at 
Edmonton, Alta., May toth, 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 1oth found three nests, one with young and 
two with eggs nearly fresh, nests fastened to the rushes (Scirpus 
lacustris), out inthe water and made of grass; found’a pair breeding at 
Peace River Landing, lat. 56° 15’, July ist, 1903. (Spreadborough.) 
Mr. ‘Drummond killed specimens of this wren on the eastern 
declivity of the Rocky mountains on the 55th parallel. (Richard- 
son.) 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. (Cowes.) I place this record here where 
it evidently belongs. | 
The specimens, of this variety in our museum are from Edmonton 
andi Peace River Landing. There may be some doubt about the 
Manitoba and Rocky mountain references above but without seeing 
the specimens this seems to be the proper place to put them. 
Famizy LIII. CERTHIIDAR. CREEPERS. 
CCLXXIV. CERTHIA Linnzus. 1758. 
726. Brown Creeper. 
Certhia familiaris americana (BONAP.) RipGw. 1874. 
Apparently a summer migrant in Newfoundland; but may not 
migrate. (Reeks.) A rather common resident at Halifax, N.S. 
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