BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 493 



Great Plains and prairie districts of central United States and south- 

 central British Provinces; north to Alberta (South Edmonton) and, 

 probably, to Manitoba; east to Illinois and western Indiana (Knox 

 County, April 30); southward in winter over greater part of Mexico 

 (except northwestern portion) as far as Vera Cruz (Jalapa), Zacatecas 

 (Valparaiso), and eastern Jalisco (Ocotlan, December), and along Gulf 

 coast of United States to western Florida (Tarpon Springs, January 

 to March; Lake Trafford,« February), casually to South Carolina 

 (Mount Pleasant," October 22), North Carolina (Ealeigh," August 5), 

 and Virginia (Arlington,'' April 29). 



Troglodytes palustris (not Certhia paltistris Wilson) Swainson and Riohabdson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 319 (Rocky Mts., 55tli parallel N. lat). -Audu- 

 bon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 500, part; Synopsis, 1839, 77, part; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., ii, 1841, 135, part.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 439, part; 

 2d ed., i, 1840, 496, part.— Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 312 (Wis- 

 consin). — Kennicott, Trans. Ills. Agric. Soc, i, 1855, 583 (Illinois). — Trippb, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, 115 (Iowa). 



(?) Troglodytes palustris Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 290 (Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz); Ibis 1859, 8 (Guatemala). 



Cistothoms (Telmatodytes) palustris Baird, Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 364, 

 part (Nebraska; Texas). 



Oistothorus palustris Baied, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 268, part; Review Am. 

 Birds, 1864, 147, part (mouth of Big Sioux E. ).— Hayden, Trans. Am. 

 Philos. Soc, xii, 1863, 163 (Council Bluffs, Iowa; Big Sioux E.). — Blakis- 

 TON, Ibis, 1862, 5 (Saskatchewan); 1863, 67 (near Fort Carlton, Saskatche- 

 wan). — Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 327 (Winnipeg and Waterhen rivers, w. Man- 

 itoba; Saskatchewan). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886, no. 725, part.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 274.— Ridgway, Orn. 

 Illinois, i, 1889, 99, part (excl. synonymy, part, and descr.). — Thompson, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 630 (Manitoba, summer resident). — Scott, 

 Auk, vii, 1890, 117, part (Tarpon Springs, Florida, Dec, Jan.). — Chapman, 

 Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1891, 327 (Corpus Christi, Texas, Mar., Apr.).— 

 Neheling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 157, part. — Nutting, Bull. Labr. 

 Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa, ii, 1893, 279 (Chemawawin, lower Saskatche- 

 wan).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 450, part (Man- 

 itoba; e. Mexico). 



? Cislothoru^ palustris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1864, 172 ("City of Mexico). 



C\istothorus'\ palustris Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 97 (n. e. Illinois). — ■ 

 Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 556, part. 



[Cistothorus palustris'] var. paZusins Baied, Brewer, and Eidqway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 161, part. 



[Telmatodytes] palustris Coubs, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 87, part. 



« These specimens are not quite typical, the brown of the upper parts being darker 

 and the pileum more dusky than in western and Mexican specimens, as are also 

 some of those in the Florida series. The bright, "foxy " coloring of the flanks, etc., 

 at once serves to separate them from true T. palustris, and they seem to be decidedly 

 referable to the interior form rather than that of the Atlantic coast district. Proba- 

 bly they are migrants from the eastern margin of the range of the subspecies, where 

 the coloration may naturally be expected to incline more or less toward that of the 

 coast type. 



