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whitish dots, has been described from the Pacific coast region, and found as 

 far east as Nevada. 



Anorthura alascensis is more decidedly different, in the larger size, and 

 especially the great size and peculiar shape of the bill. It is very intimately 

 related to A. ftimigatus of Japan, and appears to be more appreciably different 

 from the common American form than the latter is from the European. It 

 has been thought best to exclude the references to both these forms from 

 the foregoing synonymatic list. 



WINTER Wrens hold a very inconspicuous place among 

 the birds of the Colorado Basin, probably as much on 

 account of their actual scarcity as of their shy and retiring- 

 habits. I never saw them in Arizona, and have at hand no 

 references to attest their presence fairly within the Colorado 

 watershed. It is less improper, however, to bring them into 

 the present connection on the strength of their known general 

 distribution than it would be to exclude them because they 

 have not yet been seen in this particular region ; especially 

 since they have been found in Colorado Territory, in Nevada, 

 in California to Fort Tejon, and in portions of Mexico. Of 

 their movements within the present area, we remain igno- 

 rant ; that the} T occur in winter there is no doubt, but whether 

 any breed in the higher portions, or whether all retire north- 

 ward in spring, remains to be seen. The former supposition is 

 more probable, since the birds have been found breeding in 

 some of the Middle States, the Northern States and north- 

 ward, and such dispersion in summer argues in the case of any 

 bird that extends across the continent a summer residence in 

 the more elevated districts of the Southwestern Territories. 

 For a general account of the distribution and habits of this 

 species I must refer the reader to the " History of North Ameri- 

 can Birds", the " Birds of the Northwest", and other earlier 

 treatises. 



Long-billed JUarsh Wren 



Telmatodytes palnstris 



Motacilla pulustris, Bartr. Trav. Fla. 1st Am. ed. 1791, 291. 



Certhia pulustr'.s. Wils. AO. ii. 18U), 58, pi. 12, f. 4. Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 30. 



Less. Tr. Orn. 1831, 400. Lord, Pr. Roy. Arty. Inst. iv. 1864, 117. 

 Troglodytes palustris, Bp. Journ. Phila Acad. iv. 1824, 30. Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, 



93.- S. ffR. FBA. ii. 1831, 319, fig. (lat. 55). Aud. OB. i. 1831, 500, pi. lOO.Nutt. 



Man. i. 1832, 439. Brew. Journ. Boat. Soc. 1837, 437. Aud. Syn. 1839, 77. Peak Rep. 



Orn.MasH. 1839, 316. Nutt. Man. 2d ed. i. 1840, 496. Aud. BA. ii. 1841, 135, pi. 123. Gir. 



BLI. 1844, 76. Gamb. Pr. Phila. Acad. iii. 1346, 113 (California). Hoy, Pr. Phila. Acad. 



vi. 1853, 532. Read, Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 399. Gloger, J. f. O. 1854, 377. -Henry, 



