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from the dead grass only to drop back again into the welcome shelter 

 after a short bobbing flight. 



Specimens have been taken at 



Beach Haven; October 3d, 1882. S. N. Rhoads. 



Haddonfield; September 17th, 1890. S. 1ST. Rhoads (Coll. W. S.). 



Cape May; January 28th, 1892. W. Stone (Coll. W. S.). 



Cape May; January 29th, 1892. S. X. Rhoads (Coll. W. S.). 



May's Landing; October 25th, 1892. S. N. Rhoads (Coll. W. S.). 



Princeton; September 25th, 1897. W. E. D. Scott (Coll. Prince- 

 ton). 



Princeton; October 9th, 1898. W. A. Babson. 



In the Great Swamp, Morris county, Mr. Larue K. Holmes and Mr. 

 H. H. Hann found this Wren breeding commonly; Mr. Harold Her- 

 rick found them on the Passaic meadows, near Chatham, 1 and Mr. S. 

 N". Rhoads found them nesting abundantly in the Wallkill Valley, 

 northern Sussex county, June llth, 1909. Mr. Dallas Lore Sharp 

 found a pair on the Delaware Bay meadows in late June (see Holmes, 

 Cassinia, 1901, page 17, where an excellent account of the species in 

 Xew Jersey is given), and Mr. W. B. Crispin found a nest near 

 Salem, June 5th, 1909. 



725 Telmatodytes palustris (Wilson). 

 Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



A dults. Length. 4.25-5.50. Wing, 1.95. Above, head and middle back, 

 blackish-brown, the latter streaked with white and a white line over the eye : 

 sides of back, shoulders and rump, lighter brown, becoming rusty ; wings, brown, 

 the innermost feathers edged with black and brown spotted ; central tail 

 feathers, brown, narrowly barred with black, others blackish, more coarsely 

 barred with brown on both webs : under surface, white, tinged with cinnamon 

 pn sides and flanks. Plumage exceedingly worn and faded in summer. 



Young in first summer. Duller, with the white streaks above almost obsolete. 



Nest globular, woven of grass and cat-tail leaves, supported on cat-tails, 

 calamus or small bushes ; eggs, five to nine, uniform chocolate-brown or very 

 finely speckled, .64 x .45. 



Common summer resident mainly in coast and tidewater swamps. 

 Arrives May 10th, departs October 15th. 



In the breeding season the cat-tail swamps are fairly full of the 

 bubbling songs of the Marsh Wrens, which always seem to contain 



1 Forest and Stream, XII., p. KM. 



