CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS 677 



gan, B.C., April 23rd, 1903; breeding in the district, but not com- 

 mon. {i>preadborough.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Three; taken at Burnaby Lake, near Vancouver, B.C., April 

 24th, 1889, by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



One set of four eggs taken at Burnaby Lake, near Vancouver, 

 B.C., April 19th, 1889, by Mr. J. M. Macoun. 



725c. Western Marsh Wren. 



Telmatodytes palustris plesius (Oberholser) A.O.U. Com- 

 mittee. 1903. 



North to British Columbia and Alberta east of the Rocky 

 Mountains. A fall specimen from South Edmonton, Alberta, 

 and one from Fort Brown, Texas, are much brighter tawny above 

 than any of the others examined, but are both very much paler 

 than palustris, A specimen from Cariboo road, British Columbia, 

 is not perfectly typical of the present subspecies, but somewhat 

 approaches /«/«<a?«V<?/iZ in the generally duller and rather darker 

 shades of the upper parts. {^Oberholser in The Auk,, Vol. XIV., pp. 

 188-196.) 



.Found in the interior of British Columbia, only breeding about 

 the muddy margins of mountain lakes. {Streator.) I have found 

 this bird only east of the Coast Range where it was very abundant 

 around the lakes along the Cariboo road. {Fannin.) A few stay 

 all winter at Lake Okanagan, B.C. {Brooki.) Observed a num- 

 ber of individuals in a reedy pond, at Edmonton, Alta., May loth, 

 1897, I think that they arrived much earlier ; common in tall 

 rushes around all the ponds and lakes. May 13th, on May 27th 

 examined about 30 nests and obtained only one egg, on June loth 

 found three nests, one with young ones and two with eggs nearly 

 fresh, nests fastened to the rushes {Scirpus lacustris), out in the 

 water and made of grass ; found a pair breeding at Peace 

 River Landing, Lat. 56° 15', July ist, 1903. {Spreadborough.) 



This species was not observed till we reached the Rocky Moun- 

 tains when a few were- seen on marshy ground near Chief Moun- 

 tain (Waterton) Lake. {Coues.) I place this record here where 

 it evidenly belongs. {Macoun.) Mr. Drummond killed specimens 

 of this wren on the eastern declivity of the Rocky Mountains on 



