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Saunders.) I have two specimens of this bird taken by Mr. C.W. 

 ^ash at Toronto. (/. H. Fleming.) On August 29th, 1891, I 

 ound and secured an adult female of this species in an old field 

 lorth of Toronto, the bird was a long distance from any marsh or 

 vater ; on June 7th, 1895, ^ captured an adult male in a wet 

 neadow east of Toronto ; there were no rushes near this place, 

 3ut the grass was very rank. {C. W. Nash'in The Auk, Vol. XIII., 

 3. 347.) A male was taken in a wet meadow at Norway House, 

 fune 20th; from its actions it probably had a nest in the vicinity, 

 3ut despite a careful search none was found. {E.A. Prebles.) 



I found the birds to be rather plentiful along the Red River, in 

 o V oozy ground, overgrown with scrub willows, and also in the 

 eedy sloughs of the prairie. They were undoubtedly breeding 

 lere, though no nests were secured. My specimens were secured 

 It Pembina in June. {Coues.) A summer resident of erratic dis- 

 :ribution in Manitoba; soon after the ist of May, every little 

 ;edgy pool and slough in the Assiniboine valley, from Carberry 

 :o Pelly, is Vocal with the merry chatter of this bird. The nest 

 s a globular structure, and judging by the one or two cases I have 

 observed is generally placed in a grass tuft; if there is any differ- 

 ence I think the short-billed selects a drier situation for his home 

 ;han the long-billed marsh wren. {Thompsoti-Seton) A tolerably 

 ;ommon summer resident at Aweme, Manitoba. Arrives about 

 ;he last of April. {Norman Criddle.) A few specimens seen at 

 akes ten miles south of Indian Head, Assa., in May 1892. 

 Spreadboroug h . ) 



CCXLVII. TELMATODYTES Cabanis. 1850. 



^25. Long-billed Marsh Wren, 



Telmatodytes palustris dissaeptus (Bangs) The Auk, Vol. 

 XIX., p. 352. 1902. 



One procured at Godthaab, Greenland, in May, 1823. {Arct. 

 Man.) The first specimen taken in the province of New Bruns- 

 vick was near St. John, October 3rd, 1895. Nothing more was 

 loted of this species until September 23rd, 1900, when two were 

 leard at Mud Lake, 15 miles east of Scotch Lake. {W. H. Moore.) 

 K scarce summer resident at Montreal. The late Mr. Caulfield 

 )bserved this species, May 24th, in some reeds around a pond at 

 36te St. Paul, and Mr. W. W. Dunlop has seen them on Nun's 



