SHOilT-BILLED MARSH WEEN. 233 



Telmatodytes palust)-i8, Whkaton, F lod of Birds, etc, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 

 r.63 ; Reprint, 3.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 4. 



MotaciUa paluslris, Bartkam, Trav. Fla., 1791, 291. 

 Troglodytes paliistris, Boxapaetb, Joui'ii. PbiU. Acad., iv. \*:-ii, 30. 

 CistotliOrus (Telmatodytes) palustris, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1868, 364. 

 Telmatodytes pahistris, Henry, Proo. Ptiila. Acad., xi, 1859, 107. 



Above, clear brown unbarred', back with a black patch containing dintinct white 

 streaks, crown brownish blank, superciliary line to nape white, wings not notioably 

 barred, but outer webs of inner secondaries blackish; tail brown, duoky barred; 

 below, dull white, often quits pnru, t.ie lides ilone brownish washed, and xmder tail 

 coverts BOioowhat barred. Length 4f to oi ; wing about 2, tail less, tarsus f to f ; 

 bill I or more. 



Habitat;, TemperBte North America and Mexico ; south to Guatemala ; accidental in 

 Greenland. 



Common summer resident in suitable places, migrant in others. The 

 Long-billed Marsh Wren is a common resident in the extensive marshes 

 about St. Mary's and the Licking Reservoirs. It doubtless breeds in 

 many other localities. In the vicinity of Columbus, I known it only as 

 a migrant. Mr. Langdon gives it as a migrant in the vicinity of Cin- 

 cinnati. It usually makes its opriparance here shortly after the middle 

 of A])ril and remains until after th^ middle of May. In the fa,ll it returns 

 in September and may be fouud throughout October. While with us, 

 they frequent the b inks of streams, swamps, low meadows with willows 

 and swamp ro^es. Like the Carolina Wren, it frequently climbs trees, 

 but not to a very considerable height. Their only note is short, harsh, 

 and unpleasant, so quickly uttered as hardly to denote from what spot it 

 comes. 



The nest is built in bushes, generally quite near the ground. It is com- 

 posed of coarse grasses and mud. It is globular in shape, with an en- 

 trance on the side. The eggs number from six to nine, oval or spherical, 

 60 thickly marked with brown spots as to appear of a nearly uniform 

 chocolate color. They measure .65 by .50. 



Genus CISTOTHORIIS. Cabanis. 

 Bill much shorter than head. Hiud claw equal to its digit. Other characters as in 

 Telmatodytes. 



CiSTOTHOBUS STELLARIS (Licht.) Cab. 

 Short-billed Mlarsh. "Wren. 

 Troglodytes irevirostris, Read, Proo. Philad. Acad, Nat. Soi., vi, 1853, 3'J5. 

 Cistotlwrus stellarU, Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 365, 375 ; Reprint, 1861, 7, 17 ; 

 Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 663 ; Reprint, 1875, 2. — Langdon, 

 Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 4 ; Revised List, Journ. Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., j, 1879, 188 ; 

 Keprint, 22. 



