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Troglodytes parvulus var. hyemalia B. B. & R., Hist. N. Amer. B., I, 



1874, 155, pi. 9, fig. 9. 

 Olbiorchilus hiemalis Obeeholsbb, Auk, XIX, April, 1902, 178. 

 Popular synonyms : Bunty Wren. Little Log Wben. 



The Winter Wren is a common migrant, arriving, in the 

 spring, from the twenty-fifth of March to the tenth of May, and 

 returning, in the fall, from early in September to the last of 

 October. 



The range of this species extends quite generally over North 

 America, east of the Rocky Mountains. It breeds from the 

 northern portions of the United States northward and in the 

 Alleghany Mountains southward to North Carolina. It winters 

 from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois southward at least to the Gulf 

 of Mexico. 



Genus CISTOTHORUS Cabanis, 1850. 



Cistothorus stellaris (Liehtenstein) . Short-billed Marsh Wren. 



Troglodytes stellaris Lichtenstein, in Naumann's Vog. Deutschl., Ill, 



1823, 724. 

 Troglodytes hrevirostris Nttttall, Man., I, 1832, 426. 

 Cistothorus stellaris Cabanis, Mus. Hein., I, 1850, 77. 



The Short-billed Marsh Wren is a not uncommon summer 

 resident in suitable localities within our limits. It is, however, 

 rarely seen on account of its shyness. On June 3, 1889, Mr. B. 

 T. Gault found this species breeding near Sheffield, Indiana, and 

 collected two males. At the same place, on June 28, he obtained 

 a young bird which was about two days old. I have found the 

 long grass of the region around Lake Calumet, Illinois, and some 

 distance from the water, to be an excellent place for the study of 

 this Wren. 



The range of this species covers the United States, east of 

 the Great Plains, and from southern New Hampshire, southern 

 Ontario, and southern Manitoba southward. It breeds locally 

 throughout its range, and winters in the Southern States. 



Genus TELMATODYTES Cabanis, 1850. 



Telmatodytes palustris iliacus Ridgway. Long-billed Marsh Wren. 

 Troglodytes palustris Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer., 



II, 1831, 319. 

 Cistothorus palustris Baird, Cat. N. Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 2G8, part ; 



American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1895, No. 725, part; 



Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., VIII, 1876, 97. 



