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190 OBERHOLSER on a New Marsh Wren. eae 
Habitat. — Western United States except the Pacific Coast; north to 
British Columbia and Alberta, east to the Rocky Mountains and Texas, 
south into Mexico. 
Description. — Type, male, adult, No. 114938 U. S. Nat. Mus.; Fort 
Wingate, N. M., Sept. 24, 1888; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. Cervix and center 
of crown bistre brown, rather darker on the former; a streak on each side 
of crown extending backward to cervix, clove brown; lower cervix, and a 
triangular patch on interscapulum, broadest anteriorly where spreading 
out toward sides of neck, black, the feathers of the latter with broad white 
shaft streaks; remainder of upper parts brown, shading from broccoli 
brown on the anterior portions of scapulars to reddish raw umber on 
rump, and to a darker shade of same on upper tail-coverts, which last are 
distinctly barred with blackish. Middle pair of tail-feathers like upper 
tail-coverts, and quite regularly barred with black; other rectrices of a 
similar color, but shading to broccoli brown toward their tips and on 
their inner vanes, marked with heavy bars of black, which except on outer 
pair are strongly inclined to be confluent. Wing quills dark olive brown ; 
the superior coverts, together with the indentations and edgings on quills, 
grayish raw umber, these markings much paler, almost buffy white on the 
primaries; outer vanes of tertials and roundish spots on external webs of 
greater coverts, black. Superciliary stripe, and middle portion of under 
parts, soiled white; lores grayish white; sides of head and neck, with 
auriculars, grayish white, mixed with buffy; a band” across the chest 
distinctly buffy grayish; sides and flanks pale wood brown; anal region 
buff ; lower tail-coverts dull white, closely barred with deep buff and toa 
less extent with dark brown. 
Young male, No. 82772 U.S. Nat. Mus.; Parley’s Park, Utah, July 28, 
1869; R. Ridgway. Pileum and post-ocular stripe clove brown; cervix 
and upper back grayish white, much mottled by the dark brown margins 
of the feathers; a small spot in center of interscapulum black ; remainder 
of upper parts reddish raw umber brown; tail the same color, though 
rather paler and grayer towards its tip, regularly barred with brownish 
black, which color also almost entirely occupies the inner webs of all but 
the central rectrices. Wings bistre brown, margins of quills and coverts 
like the back. Sides of neck and head dull grayish white, mixed with 
brownish; anterior lower parts brownish gray; posterior lower parts and 
superciliary stripe grayish white, the former with a buffy tinge; sides, 
flanks and crissum dull butt. ‘*‘ Upper mandible, sepia-black ; commissure 
and lower mandible, pale lilaceous; iris, brown; tarsi, dark sepia-plum- 
beous; toes, paler, whitish beneath.” ! 
This subspecies differs from true palustris in the usual presence 
of regular, distinct and much heavier bars on the two middle tail 
' Ridgway, Geol. Ex. 4oth Parallel, IV, 1877, 426. 
