330 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



724. Cistothorus stellaris (LIGHT.). 



Short-billed Marsh Wren. 



Troglodytes stellaris LIGHT, in NAUM. Vog. Deutschl. III. 1823, tab. 



ad p. 724. 

 Cistothorus stellaris CAB. Mus. Hein. I. 1850, 77. 



[B 269, C 52, R 68, C 81.] 



HAB. Eastern United States and Southern British Provinces, west 

 to the Plains. Winters in the Gulf States and southward. 



SUBGENUS TELMATODYTES CABANIS. 



Telmatodytes CAB. Mus. Hein. I. 1850, 78. Type, Certhia palustris 

 WILS. 



725. Cistothorus palustris (WILS.). 



Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



Certhia palustris WILS. Am. Orn. II. 1810, 58, pi. 12, fig. 4. 

 Cistothorus (Telmatodytes') palustris BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 364. 



[6268, Csi,R67, 67*, C 79, 80.] 



HAB. Southern British America and the United States, south, in 

 winter, to Guatemala. 



FAMILY CERTHIIDJE. CREEPERS. 



GENUS CERTHIA LINN^US. 



Certhia LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 118. Type, by elimination, 

 C. familiaris LINN. 



726. Certhia familiaris americana (BONAP.). 



Brown Creeper. 



Certhia americana BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, n. 

 Certhia familiaris var. americana RIDGW. Bull. Essex Inst. V. 

 1873, 180. 



[B 275, C 42, R 55, C 62.] 



HAB. North America in general, breeding from the northern and 

 more elevated parts of the United States northward, migrating south- 

 ward in winter. 



