BIRDS OF KOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 497 



Telmatodytes palustris Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 51, part; Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 34, part; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 178, part. 



OiMoihorus palustris, var. paludicola Baied, Review Am. Birds, Sept., 1864, 148 

 (Shoal water Bay, Washington; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



[Oistothorus palustris] var. paludicola Baihd, Brewer, and Ridqway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, 161, part. 



Qistothorus palustris . . . var. paludicola Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 

 1876, 232, FortTejon, California). 



Oistothorus palustris paludicola Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 314. — 

 Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 400, part.— Lawrence (R. H.), Auk, ix, 1892, 357 

 (Grays Harbor, Washington). — Obekholseb, Auk, xiv, 1897, 193 (synon- 

 ymy; descr.; crit.). — Gkinnell, Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 49 (Los 

 Angeles Co., California, resident). — Eathbhn (S. P.), Auk, xix, 1902, 139 

 (Seattle, Washington, resident).— Fisher. (W. K.), Condor, iv, 1902, 135 

 (Orescent City, California). — Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 

 201 (San Jos6 del Cabo, San Jos6 del Rancho, and Santiago, Lower Cali- 

 fornia, autumn and winter). — Bangs, Auk, xix, 1902, 352 (range). 



C[istothorus'] palustris paludicola Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 556, part. 



Clistothorus'] pl^alustris'] paludicola Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds W. U. 

 S., 1902, 450. 



Oistothorus ( Telmatodytes) palustris paludicola Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 

 593, part. 



Telmatodytes palustris paludicola Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 

 1880, 170, 215, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 67fr, part.— Coues, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 80, part. 



Telmatodytes palustris ... /J paludicola Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 425, 

 part (in synonymy). 



Telmatodytes palustris, fi paludicola Belding and Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1879, 403 (Stockton and Marysville, California). 



T[elmatodytes'] plalustris] paludicola Coubs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 279, 

 part. 



TELMATODYTES PALUSTRIS MARIANNE (Scott). 

 MARIAN'S MARSH WREN. 



Similar to T. p. palustris, but smaller, and coloration much darker; 

 pileum usually entirely black or with black largely predominating; 

 white streaks of interscapular region narrower, sometimes almost 

 obliterated; brown of scapulars, rump, etc., darker," the upper tail- 

 coverts (sometimes the whole rump) usually barred with dusky; sides 



« As in T. p. palustris and other conspecific'forms (except, apparently, T. p. griseus) 

 there is great variation in the hue of the brown, which is grayer (deep broccoli 

 brown, verging toward olive) in summer, usually deep mummy brown to chestnut- 

 brown in winter, but this variation is not entirely dependent on season, some mid- 

 winter specimens (the types, for example), although in fresh plumage, having the 

 brown of the same olive or broccoli hue seen in worn midsummer specimens. In 

 view of the great constancy in the hue of the brown in other forms, when specimens 

 of corresponding season are compared, it is difficult to understand the very great 

 variation in the present form, as at present understood. I very strongly suspect 

 that in reality two forms are involved in the question, but until additional southern 

 localities are represented by series of specimens taken during the breeding season, 

 it is scarcely possible to settle the matter. 



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