180 SYNONYMY OF CISTOTHORUS STELLARIS 



young birds, in which, also, the white stripes on the back may be altogether 

 wanting. Coloradan specimens in general show a tendency to shorter bill 

 and rather more barred tail and its coverts, constituting var. paludicola of 

 Baird, but the difference even in extreme cases is very slight. A specimen 

 from Provo, Utah, is curiously bleached, the upper parts being pale gray. 



OF- the common Marsh Wren I shall have but a word to say, 

 respecting its presence in the Colorado Basin, as I have 

 already given an extended biographical notice in the " Birds of 

 the Northwest". In noting its general distribution, as above 

 given, the reader will of course supply the proviso that it 

 occurs only in suitable places throughout this range, these 

 being marshy or swampy tracts. Now, if there is anything the 

 matter with most of the Colorado Basin especially with Arizona 

 and New Mexico it is the scarcity of water. The Marsh Wren 

 is therefore restricted in this region, as elsewhere, to the com- 

 paratively few spots which afford the requisite conditions ; but 

 in these particular tracts it is as abundant as I have seen it 

 anywhere. 



Short-billed Marsh Wren 



Cistothorus stellaris 



Troglodytes Stellaris, "Licht."Naum. VD. iii. 1823, 724 (Carolina). Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. 



vi. 1671, 115 (Minnesota). 

 CiStOthorilS Stellaris, Cab. MH. i. 1850, 77. Bd. BNA. 1858) 365. Wheat. Ohio Agric. Rep. 



I860,. 365.- Barn. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1851, 436. Sel. CAB. 1861, 'ZZ.Hayd. Tr. 



Amer. Philos. Soc. xii. 1862, 16,3 (Loup Fork of Platte). Ooues ff Prent. Smiths. Rep. 



for 1861, 1862, 410. Bd. Rev. AB. 1864, 146. Allen, Pr. Essex Inst. iv. 1864, 83. Later. 



Ann. Lye. viii. 1866, 283. Allen, Am. Nat. 1867, 161 Coues, Pr. Boat. Soc. xii. 1868, 108. 



Ooues, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 279.Sumich. Mem. Bost. Soc. i. 1869, 545 (Orizaba). 



Mayn. Nat. Guide, 1870, 96. Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1871, 20. Allen, Bull. MCZ. ii. 



1871, 167 (Florida in winter). Parker, Am. Nat. v. 1871, 168. Coues, Key, 1872, 88. 



Ridg. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 200. Trippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1873, 36 (Iowa). May n. B. 



Fla. 1873, 43. Snow, B Kansas, 1873, 6. Coues, BNW. 1874, 36. Bd. Br. $ Ry. NAB. i. 



1874, 159, pi. 9, f. 7. Yarr. fy Hensh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 9, 41 (Provo, Utah). Brew. 



Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 439. Hensh. Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. 1876, 185 (Utah). 

 Thryothorus Stellaris, Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 27 ; Phila. ed. 20. 

 Troglodytes brevirostriS, Nutt. Man. i. 1832, 436 (pagination of Mem. Amer. Acad. quoted 



here); Mem. Amer. Acad. Sci. new series, i. "1833", 98, fig. And. OB.ii. 1834,427, 



pi. 175. Bp. CGL. 1838, 11. Peab. Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 315. And. Syn. 1839, 77. Nutt. 



Man, i. 2d ed. 1840, 493, fig. Aud BA. ii. 1841, 138, pi. 124. B^.CA. i. 185J, 222. Gerh. 



Naum. iii. 1853, 37. Hoy, 1'r. Phila. Acad. 1853, 312. Read, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1853, 399. 



Kennic. Tr. 111. Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 583. Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 227. 

 Short-billed Marsh Wren, Fresh-water Marsh Wren, Authors. 



The synonymy of the scarcely different &. elegans is: 



Cistothorus elegans, S. ffS. Ibis, i. 1859, 8 (Guatemala) ; ii. 1860, 30 (Duenas). Bd. Rev. AB. 

 1864, 146. PSalv. PZS. 1870, 182 (Veragua). Bd. Br. ^ Ry. NAB. i. 1874, 159. 



Cistothorus stellaris b. elegans, Coues, BNW. 1874, 36. 



