486 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Cistothorus stellaris (not Troglodytes stellaris Naumann) Sclatbe, Cat. Am. Biruf 

 1862, 22, part (Duenas).— Sumioheast, Mem. Boat. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, bib 

 (near Orizaba, Vera Cruz). 



Cistothorus polyglottus (not Thryothorus polygloitus Vieillot) Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 105, part (Orizaba; Lake of Duenas 

 and summit of Volcan de Agua, Guatemala). — Shaepe, Oat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., vi, 1881, 245, part (Duenas). 



Clistothorus'] polyglottus Kidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 556, part. 



Oistothoras polyglottos Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 24 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz; orit. ). 



CISTOTHORUS POLYGLOTTUS LUCIDUS Ridgway. 

 PANAMA MARSH WREN. 



Similar to C. ^ji. elegans, but coloration brighter and more rufescent; 

 adults with white streaks on back broader, more purely white; young 

 with general color much more strongly rufescent (the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts dull russet or cinnamon instead of wood brown, the sides, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts cinnamon, or deep bufi'y cinnamon, in- 

 stead of pale wood brown; tail longer. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 106.5; wing, 43.5; tail, 44; exposed' 

 culmen, 11; tarsus, 17.5; middle toe, 12.5. 



Isthmus of Panama (Boquete, Chiriqui; Bugaba, Veragua). 



Cistothorus elegans (not of Salvin and Godman) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 



1870, 182 (Bugaba, Veragua).— (?) Zelbdon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 3. 

 [Cistothorus'] elegans Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 7, part 



(Veragua). 

 Cistothorus polyglottus elegans Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, Jan., 1902, 



53 (Boquete, Chiriqui, 5,000ft. alt.). 

 Cistothorus polyglottus (not Thryothorus polyglottus VieiUot) Salvin and Godman, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 105, part (Chiriqui, Veragua).— Shabpe, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 245, part (in synonymy).— (?) Zeledon, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 105 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 



1887, 106 (do). 

 Clistothorus] polyglottus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 557, part. 

 Cistothorus polyglottus lucidus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, Nov. 30, 



1903, 169 (Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



Genus TELMATODYTES Cabanis. 

 Telmatodytesa CABAms, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 78. (Type, Certhia palustrisYnhon.) 

 Small Troglodytidse (wing 40^50 mm.) with inner toe more united 

 to hallux than to middle toe; exposed culmen equal to or longer than 

 middle toe (without claw); depth of bill at frontal antise less than one- 

 third the distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; tail graduated for 

 much less than one-third its length, and back streaked with black and 

 white but pileum not streaked. 



Bill shorter than head, slender, much compressed for anterior half, 



a "rsAwa Marschland." 



