330 



CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



724. Cistothorus stellaris (Light.). 



Short-billed Mursli Wrcu. 



Troglodytes stellaris Light, in N.\um. Vog, Deulschl. III. 1823, tab. 



ad p. 724, 

 Cistothorus stellaris Cab. Mus. Htin, I. 1S50, Tj. 



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



Had. Eastern United States and Southern British Provinces, west 

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



Subgenus TELMATOD7TES Cabanis. 

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



WiLS. 



725. Cistothorus palustris (Wils.). 



Liong-billed Marsh Wren. 



Certhia palustris Wils. Am. Orn. II. iSio, 58, pi. 12, fig. 4. 

 Cistothorus {Telmatodytes) palustris Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 364. 



[B 268, C 51, R 67, 67^, C 79, 80.J 



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

 winter, to Guatemala. 



/ '/C >- /2 ^ •/ Family OERTHIID^. Creepers. 



Genus CERTHIA Linn^us. 



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

 C. /ami liar is Linn. 



726. Certhia familiaris americana (Bonap.). 



Brown Creeper. 



Certhia an^ricana BoNAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 11. 



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. 



