180 SYNONYMY OF CISTOTHORUS STELLARIS 



young birds, in which, also, the white stripes on the back maybe altogether 

 wanting. Coloradan specimens in general show a tendency to shorter bill 

 and rather more barred tail and its coverts, constituting var. paludicola of 

 Baird, but the difference even in extreme cases is very slight. A specimen 

 from Provo, Utah, is curiously bleached, the upper parts being pale gray. 



OF^the common Marsh Wren I shall have but a word to say, 

 respecting its presence in the Colorado Basin, as I have 

 iilreadj^ given an extended biographical notice in the " Birds of 

 the Northwest" In noting its general distribution, as above 

 given, the reader will of course supply the proviso that it 

 occurs only in suitable places throughout this range, these 

 being marshy or swampy tracts. Now, if there is anything the 

 uiatterwithmostof the Colorado Basin — especially with Arizona 

 and New Mexico — it is the scarcity of water. The Marsh Wren 

 is therefore restricted in this region, as elsewhere, to the com- 

 paratively few spots which afford the requisite conditions ; but 

 in these particular tracts it is as abundant as I have seen it 

 anywhere. 



^hort-billed Marfsih 'Wren 



Cistothorns stellaris 



Troglodytes StellarlS, "Licht."—Naum, VD. iii. 1823, 724 (Carolina).— Ti-ippc, Pr. Ess. Inst, 

 vi. 1671, 11.5 (Minnesota). 



CiStOtborilS SleUarls, Cat. MH. i. 1850, 17.— Bd. BNA. 1858, seS.— W/ieat. Ohio Agric. Rep. 

 1860, 365.— Bam. Smith.f. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 436.— .Sci. CAB. 1861, ii.—Hayd. Tr. 

 Amer. Philos. Soc. xii. 1862, 16,3 (Loup Fork of Platte).— Co!lcs If Prent. Smiths. Rep. 

 for 1861, 1862, 410.— Sd. Rev. AB. 1864, US.— Alien, Pr. Essex Inst. iv. 1864, Si.—Lawr. 

 Ann. Lye. viii. 1866, ^W.— Allen, Am.Nat. 1867, 161— Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 1868, 108.— 

 Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 279.- Sijmc*. Mem. Bost. Soc. i. 1869, 545 (Orizaba).— 

 Maijn. Nat. Guide, 1870, 96.— Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 187l, iO.— Allen, Bull. MCZ. ii. 

 1871, 167 (Florida in winter).— Par/tcr, Am. Nat. v. 1871, 168.- Coties, Key, 187a, 86.— 

 Ridg. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, WO.-Trippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1873, 536 (Iowa.).— Mayn. B. 

 Fla. 1873, 43.— Snow, B Kansas, 1873, 6.—Ooues, BNW. 1874, 36.— Bd. Br. If Ry. NAB. i. 



1874, 159, pi. 9, f. 7.— r»rr. If Hensh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 9, 41 (Provo, Utah) Brew, 



Pr. Bost. Soc. xvll. 1875, m.— Hensh. Zool, Expl. W. 100 .Merid. 1876, 185 (Utah). 



Tliryothorus StCllarlS, Tumh. B. B. Pa. 1869, 27; Phila. ed. 20. 



Troglodytes brevlrostris, Nntt. Man. i. 1832, 436 (pagination of Mem. Amer. Acad, quoted 

 here); Mem. Amer. Acad. Sci. new series, i. "1833", 9S, &is.—Aud. OB. ii. 1834, 427, 

 pi. 175.— Bp. CGL. 1838, U.—Peai. Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 3\5.—Aud. Syn. 1839, 77.—NuU. 



Man, 1. 2d ed. 1840, 493, Ag.—Aud BA. ii. 1841, 138, pi. 124 Bp.CA.. i. 185J, 222.- GerA. 



Naum. iii. 1853, 3T.—Hoy, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1853, 312.— Read, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1853, 399.— 

 Kennic. Tr. 111. Agric. Soc. 1. 1855, Sm.-Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. 1. 1856, 227. 



Kbort-billed .MarsU Wreu, Kresh-watcr Marsh Wren, Authors. 



The synonymy of the scarcely different 6. elegans is: — 



OiStOthorus elegans, .S. SfS. Ibis, i. 1859, 8((}uatomala) ; ii. 1860, 30 (Duena<).— Bd. Rev. AB. 

 1864, Ue.-ZSalu. PZS. 1870, 182 (Veragua).— Bi Br. Sr Ry. NAB. i. 1874, 159. 



Cistotborus stellaris b. elegans, Coues, bnw. 1874, 36. 



