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' Adult female.— Length, (skins), 97-102 (99.5); wing, 43-47 (44.7); 

 tail, 35-38 (36.5); exposed culmen, 12-13.5 (12.8); tarsus, 18.5-19 

 (18.7); middle toe, 13. « 



Coast district of Louisiana and Texas (Sabine, September). 



Oistothorus palvstris (not Cerihia palustris 'Wilson) Beyer, Proc. Louis. See. Nat. 



for 1897-9!) (1900), 42 (Louisiana; resident). 

 Telmatodyles paluslris thryophilus ObtsrhotuSer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, Nov. 



12, 1903, 149 (Sabine, Texas, Sept. 3; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



TELMATODYTES PALUSTRIS GRISEUS (Brewster). 

 •WORTHINGTON'S MARSH WREN. 



Most like T. p. marianx, but much paler and grayer, with black of 

 upper parts greatly reduced in extent; brown of upper parts grayish 

 olive to slightly brownish olive; pileum usually mostly olive, with 

 lateral portions, only, dusky, this sometimes nearly obsolete; inter- 

 scapular region largely, sometimes entirely, olive, the white streaks 

 sometimes very few in number and confined to extreme upper back; 

 upper tail-coverts often plain olive, but usually with more or less 

 distinct darker bars; sides and flanks light grayish olive or hair 

 brown, with or without darker bars. 



Adult male.— heng\h (skins), 99.5-109 (106.5); wing, 45-48 (46.7); 

 tail, 37-40 (38); exposed culmen, 13.5-15.5 (14.4); tarsus, 19-20.5 (20); 

 middle toe, 11.5-13 (12).* 



Adult female.— IjBTigih. (skins), 94.5-104 (99.1); wing, 43-44 (43.5): 

 tail, 33-36.5 (34.2); exposed culmen, 13.5-14 (13.6); tarsus, 18-19.5 

 (18.7); middle toe, 10.6-11.5 (11)." 



South Atlantic coast of United States, from southern South Caro- 

 lina (Mount Pleasant; '^ near Charleston) to northern Florida (Anastasia 

 Island)."' 



Cislothorus palusiris marianie (not C. marianx Scott) Bkewstbk, Auk, v, Oct., 

 1888, 432 (Sapelo I., Georgia). 



Cislothorus marianie (not of Scott) Wayne, Auk, viii, 1891, 239 (Mount Pleasant, 

 South Carolina) — Eidqway, Auk, viii, 1891, 240 (near Charleston, South 

 Carolina) . 



Cistothorus palustris griseus Brewster, Auk, x, July, 1893, 216 (Sapelo I., Georgia; 

 coll. W. Brewster). — American Oknitholoqists' Union, Check List, 2(1 ed., 

 1895, no. 7256.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 610.— Wayne, 

 Auk, xvi, 1899, 361 (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; crit. ). 



Cistothorus griseus Bangs, Auk, xix, 1902, 353 (range). 



« Three specimens. " Four specimens. 



b Six specimens. <i Breeding in these localities. 



