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T[elmatodytes'] plcdustrisl paludicola ? CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., X884, 279, 

 part. 



Oistothorus palustris plesius Obekholsbr, Auk, xiv, Apr., 1897, 188 (Fort Win- 

 gate, New Mexico; coll. TJ. S. Nat. Mus.).— Amekioan Oenithologists' 

 Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 126 (check list no. 725c).— Cooke, Bull. 

 Col. Agric. Coll., no. 56, 1900, 222 (South Park, Colorado, breeding).— 

 Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, xli, 1902, 203 (San Jos6 del Cabo, Lower 

 California, autumn; crit. ).— Bangs, Auk, xix, 1902, 352, part (range) .— Grin- 

 NELL, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 70. 



Ciistothmus] p[_alu8tris] plesius Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 

 1902, 451, part. 



TELMATODYTES PALUSTRIS PALUDICOLA (Baird). 

 CALrFORNIA MARSH WREN, 



Most like T. p. pal/ustris, but tail-coverts usually barred (especially 

 the upper), middle rectrices more distinctly barred, flanks, etc., deeper 

 brown, bill smaller, and tail decidedly longer; agreeing with T. j). 

 plesius in barred tail-coverts, more distinctly barred tail, and rela- 

 tively longer tail, but decidedly smaller and with coloration decidedly 

 darker. 



Adult Hia^e.— Length (skins), 104.5-124 (112.6); wing, 47.5-53.5 

 (50.7); tail, 41-47.5 (44.4); exposed culmen, 12-14.5 (13.4); tarsus, 

 19-21 (20); middle toe, 11.5-13 (12.4)." 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 109.. 5-117. 5 (112); wing, 47-62.5 

 (49); tail, 40.5-47.5 (42.7); exposed culmen, 12.5-13.5 (13); tarsus, 

 18.5-20(19); middle toe, 11.5-12.5(12.3).* . » 



Pacific coast district, from western British Columbia (Chilliwack) ; 

 southward during migration to Cape district of Lower California 

 (San Jose del Cabo) and northwestern Sonora (mouth of Colorado 

 River). 



Troglodytes palustris (not Certhia palustris Wilson) Gameel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., iii, 1846, 113 (California). — Heeemann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 ii, 1853, 263 (Sacramento Valley, California); Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, 

 1859, 41 (California). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, 1857, 80, part 

 (California). 



Oistothorus (Telmatodytes) palustris Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 364, 

 part (Shoalwater Bay, Washington; Sacramento Valley and Fort Tejon, 

 California) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 268, part. 



Cistothorus palustris Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, 

 California). — Cooper andSucKLEv, Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. 2, 1860, 

 190 (vicinity of Puget Sound, Washington). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 22, part (California). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 75, part.- — Anthony, Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 171 (Washington Co., Oregon, summer resident). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 725, part. 



Certhia palustris (not of Wilson) Lord, Proc. Roy. Art. Inst. Woolwich, iv, 1864, 

 117 (British Columbia). 



ITelmatodytes} palustris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 87, part. 



» Ten specimens. ^ Seven specimens. 



