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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



CISTOTHORUS, Cabanis. 

 Cistothorus, Cab. Mua. Hein. 1850, 77. (Type Troglodytes stellaris, 

 Light., Nxvu.) — Telmatodytes, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 78. 

 (Type Certhia palustris, Wilsoh.) 



a. Cistothorus. 



Cistotborus stellaris. 



Troglodytes stellaris, " Light." Naumann, Vogel Deutschlands, III, 1823, 

 724 (Carolina). — Cistothorus stellaris, Cab. Mus. Hein. 77. — Baikd, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 365.— Sclatbr, Catal. 22, no. 142 (in part). 



Troglodytes brevirostris, Nutt. Man. I, 1832, 436. — Aud. Om. Biog. II, 



1834, 427, pi. 175 Ib. B. A. II, 1841, 138, pi. 124. 



Hab. Eastern province of United States. 



(No. 3,073, Georgia.) Total length, 4.40 ; wing, 1.75 ; tail, 1.75, its gradua- 

 tion, .70 ; exposed portion of 1st primary, .65, of 2d, 1.06, of longest (measured 

 from exposed base of 1st primary), 1.25 ; length of bill from forehead, .45, 

 from nostril, .29 ; tarsus, .65 ; middle toe and claw, .61 ; hind toe and claw, 

 .55 ; claw alone, .26. 



Cistothorus elegans. 



Cistothorus elegans, Sclatek & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 8 (Guatemala). 

 Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. 



I have not a very good series of specimens before me, although 

 they seem to indicate that the G. elegans of Sclater & Salvin is really 

 distinct from the northern bird, and that these authors have been 

 hasty in re-combining them. If not different species they at least 

 are well-marked varieties. The bill of elegans is considerably 

 stouter and larger than that of stellaris, and the tarsi decidedly 

 longer — the birds themselves being of much the same size. On the 

 back the white streaks do not reach so far back (nearly to the rump 



