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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
ceous, the latter (often the former also) immaculate ; chest more or less 
tinged with ochraceous; length 3.75-4.50, wing 1.72-1.90 (1.78), tail 
1.58-1.70 (1.61), culmen .40, bill from nostril .24-.28 (.25), tarsus .60-.62 
(61). Eggs .63 x .48. Hab. Eastern United States and more southern 
British Provinces, west to Great Plains (to Utah Lake, Utah?); win- 
tering in Gulf States. 
724, C. stellaris (Licur.). Short-billed Marsh Wren. 
v. Upper tail-coverts and rump rusty brown, sometimes barred with dusky, 
but usually quite plain; hind-neck usually distinctly streaked with 
dusky ; chest scarcely, if at all, tinged with buff; otherwise like C. stel- 
laris ; wing 1.64-1.75 (1.72), tail 1.50-1.80 (1.63), culmen 41-47 (.43), 
tarsus .65-.70 (.68). Hab. Eastern tropical America, from eastern 
Mexico (Vera Cruz) to Brazil, Bolivia, ete. 
C. polyglottus (VIEILL.). Southern Marsh Wren.! 
a, Bill as long as head, the culmen equal to or longer than middle toe, without 
(91.) 
claw; hind claw longer than the toe; lower parts pure white medially ; eggs 
pale chocolate-brown or deeper chocolate, sometimes nearly uniform, but usu- 
ally finely sprinkled with a deeper shade of the ground-color (the latter 
sometimes light isabella-color). (Subgenus Telmatodytes CaBANIs.) 
b'. Culmen usually decidedly longer than middle toe, without claw; bars on 
middle tail-feathers usually indistinct or incomplete; tail-coverts (above 
and below) usually without distinct bars, sometimes with none at all; 
length 4.25-5.50, wing 1.80-2.12 (1.95), tail 1.60-1.90 (1.80), culmen .50- 
.61 (.54), bill from nostril .34-.41 (.38), tarsus .70-.80 (.76). Eggs .66 x 
46. Hab. Eastern United States and British Provinces, wintering in 
Gulf States......... 725. C. palustris (Wizs.). Long-billed Marsh Wren. 
o?. Culmen not decidedly, if any, longer than middle toe, without claw (some- 
times a little shorter); bars on middle tail-feathers usually very distinct 
and continuous; tail-coverts (upper and lower) usually distinctly barred 
with blackish; brown of upper parts appreciably less rusty; length 
about 4.50-5.75, wing 1.95-2.22 (2.06), tail 1.80—2.05 (1.92), culmen .48- 
55 (51), bill from nostril .31-.37 (.34), tarsus .68-.78 (.72). Eggs .62 X 
A9, Hab. Western United States, east to Rocky Mountains (to Great 
Plains ?); south, in winter, over table-lands of Mexico, to Guatemala. 
725a. C, palustris paludicola Bairp. Tule Wren.’ 
1 Thryothorus polyglottus Viz1Lu., Nouv. Dict. xxiv. 1819, 59. Cistothorua polyglottus Pruz., Orn. Bras. 
1871, 48. 
2 Cistothorus palustris var. paludicola Bairp, Review Am. B. i. Sept. 1864, 148. 
Norz.—The vernacular name is derived from the Spanish word tule, meaning a kind of rush (Scirpus vali- 
dus) which in the valleys of California and other portions of the western country forms extensive marshes. 
These marshes are called tules, pronounced as if spelled too’lays. 
This race was not recognized by the A. 0. U. Committee, but it rests on quite as good a basis as Trog- 
lodytes aédon parkmanii and several other accepted forms. 
