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Short-billed Marsh Wren 



localities, it merely gives its hearty quip-quap call notes. It 

 lives in the woods, and can be found among the lower growths, 

 and on and under old logs and stumps. Its quiet ways and 

 dark colors render it difficult to be seen. 



Length, 4 ; wing, IJ (l|-2) ; tail, IJ; tarsus, f ; culmen, f. Eastern 

 North America; breeding from the northern United States northward 

 (in the Alleghanies from North 

 Carolina), and wintering from 

 New York and Illinois south- 

 ward. 



8. Short-billed Marsh "Wren 



(724. Cistothdrus stelld,ris). 

 — A small, short - billed, 

 marsh and meadow-living 

 wren, with its whole back, 

 including the crown, very 

 distinctly streaked length- 

 wise with dark and light shades. The under parts are white, 

 with buffy sides and breast. This, like many of the wrens, is 



so shy that it is much 

 more frequently heard 

 than seen. 



Length, i\; wing. If 

 (15-1|) ; tail, 1| ; tarsus, f ; 

 culmen, |. The United 

 States from the Plains east- 

 ward, and north to southern 

 Michigan and southern On- 

 tario. It winters in the South 

 Atlantic and Gulf States. 



9. Long -billed Marsh 

 Wren (725. Cistothdrus 

 imlustris). — A 1 o n g- 

 billed, white - bellied 

 wren, with a black back, 

 LoDg-billed Marsh Wren striped lengthwise with 



white. The crown is unstreaked, and the wings, tail, and sides 



