BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
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Plate XLIV. 
TELMATODYTES PALUSTRIS, (Wils.) Ba[rd. 
Long-billed Marsh Wren. 
The above species is restricted to Eastern North America. It ranges 
from the Atlantic westward to the Missouri, and from Massachusetts to 
Florida. On our western shores, and in the Middle Provinces of the 
United States, a closely-allied form takes its place. In Maine and New 
Hampshire it is notably absent, but in Massachusetts and Vermont and 
thence southward through New England, where suitable localities exist, it 
is more or less common. Austin F. Park, of Troy, N. Y., gives it a 
common breeder in that locality, and the same may be affirmed, on the 
authority of Rathbun, to be the case in the central jjortions of the State. 
In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware we have found it most abun- 
dant during the nesting season. Throughout the Southern States some 
remain to breed, but the greater number go northward for this purpose. 
Ridgway states it to be an occasional resident, at least, in the southern 
counties of Illinois, but farther north a summer sojourner. In the vicinity 
of Cincinnati, according to Langdon, it seems to be merely a vernal 
migrant, but possibly spends its summer in the northern counties of Ohio, 
or in Michigan and Wisconsin. It cannot be denied admission to Minne- 
sota, as is clearly proved by ornithologists from that section. Its occur- 
rences have been noted in Kansas and Colorado by various parties, but it 
is likely that such references may be set down to the Tule Wren. 
The Long-bill spends the winter on our southern border and south- 
ward, and only takes up its migratory course when the weather has settled 
into the blandishments of spring. The grand movement commences about 
