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GENUS CISTOTHORUS CABANIS. 



SUBGENUS TELMATODYTES CABAXIS. 



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168. Cistothorus palustris (WILS.). 

 Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



A common summer resident from May 5 to September 25. It is to be found in 

 nearly all the more extensive swamps, especially where the cat-tail flag ( Typha lati'- 

 folia} abounds. While it of course breeds regularly in this locality, no nests have 

 been discovered, owing to the great difficulty of traversing at the proper season the 

 swamps where it occurs. 



It is in song throughout its sojourn here, but sings with much less frequency 

 during the latter part of the summer. 



FAMILY CERTHIID/E. CREEPERS. 

 GENUS CERTHIA LINN.WS. 



169. Certhia familiaris americana (BONAP.). 

 Brown Creeper. 



A tolerably common spring and fall transient and rare winter resident. During 

 the winter it remains principally in the woods of the bottom-lands, but during the 

 migrations it occurs also on the high ground. Its earliest fall appearance is October 

 2, and it has never been observed later in spring than May i ; seldom, in fact, after 

 the middle of April. 



No positive breeding record has been established, but an unoccupied nest, which 

 in position and structure much resembled that of this species, was discovered on 

 May 7, 1891. This nest was situated about twenty feet from the ground in a crevice 

 behind the bark of a dead tree, in damp bottom-land woods along the Killbuck. 



FAMILY PARID^. NUTHATCHES AND TITS. 



SUBFAMILY SITTING. NUTHATCHES.. 



GENUS SITTA LINN^US. 



170. Sitta carolinensis LATH. 

 White-breasted Nuthatch. 



A permanent resident ; common in summer, abundant in fall and winter. It is 

 most numerous in woodland, though in winter it commonly is elsewhere encountered. 

 During the summer it apparently is partial to the bottom-lands and to timbered ra- 

 vines, but in the fall and winter it is equally if not more abundant in the upland 

 woods, being then frequently associated with Tufted Titmice, Chickadees and Golden- 

 crowned Kinglets. 



