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U. S. P. E. R, EXP. AND SUEVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENEEAL EEPOET. 
List of specimens. 
Sex and 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig'l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
7.16 
6 75 
6 75 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
s 
8 
9 
oo 
oo 
April 30, 1846 
Mar. 29, 1845 
June 14, 1843 
July 5, 1843 
5.16 
4 9° 
4 91 
2 32 
2.25 
2 08 
2 
Feb. — , 1856 
251 
8 
Shoalwater bay, W. T . 
Fort Vancouver, \V. T. 
Washington Territory.. 
June — , 1855 
Dec. 29, 1853 
Gov. Stevens 
Dr. Cooper .... 
d ° 
5.50 
5.25 
6.50 
7.00 
Iris brown, legs gray, bill 
black and white. 
Dec. 29, 1856 
May 8, 1856 
9 
S 
R. S. Williamson. 
Dr. Heermann . 
4.66 
5.25 
2.00 
Los Nogales, Mexico. . . 
Jan. — , 1855 
Major Emory 
77 
18 
9 
J. H. Clark .... 
5.00 
5.00 
6.75 
6.75 
6.50 
6.50 
1.75 
2.12 
2.25 
2.00 
Ringgold Barracks, Tex. 
Jan. 15, 1853 
April—, 1853 
Mar. —,1853 
9 
Lieut. Couch ... 
158 
Eyes brown, feet lighl 
brown. 
Eyes brown, feet lead.. 
4.75 
M. Verreaux-.... 
29906 
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1 
2562 
2047 
1061 
1104 
1103 
7126 
7128 
7129 
7134 
4541 
5516 
7133 
7132 
7127 
7131 
7130 
3971 
9119 
CISTOTHORUS, Cab an is. 
Cistothorus, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850-'l, 77. Type Troglodytes stellaris. 
Telmatodytes, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850- '1, 78. Type Certhia palustris. 
Thriothorus, Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, according to G. R. Gray. See article on genus Thriothorus. 
Ch. — Bill about as long as the head or much shorter, much compressed, not notched, gently decurved from the middle ; thegonys 
slightly concave or straight. Toes reaching to the end of the tail. Tarsus longer than the middle toe. Hind toe longer than 
the lateral, shorter than the middle. Lateral loes about equal. Hind toe longer than or equal to its digit. Wings rather 
longer than the tail, all the feathers of which are much graduated ; the lateral only two-thirds the middle. The feathers 
narrow. Back black, conspicuously streaked with white. 
The excessive graduation of all the feathers of a tail shorter than the wings, in connexion 
with stout feet and a hind toe as long as or longer than its digit, appears to characterize this 
group. I have drawn the characters to include both Cistothortis and Telmatodytes of Cabanis, 
as they are very closely related. The characters of these will be found under the sub-family 
Troglodytinae. 
CISTOTHORUS (TELMATODYTES) PALUSTRIS, Cabanis. 
Long-billed Marsh Wren. 
Certhia palustris, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 58 ; pi. xii, f. 4. 
Troglodytes palustris, Bonap. Obs. Wilson, 1824, No. 66.— Swainson, F. Bor. Am. IT, 1832, 319.— Audubon, Orn. 
Biog. I, 1831, 500 : V, 1839, 467 ; pi. 100.— Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 135 ; pi. 123.— New- 
berry, Zool. Cal. & Or. Route ; P. R. R. Rep. VI, iv, 1857, 80. 
Thryothorus palustris, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 439.— Bon. List, 1838. 
Thryothorus arundineus, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1819, 58. (Not Troglodytes arundinaceus, Vieillot, Ois. 
Am. II, pi. cviii.) 
Thryothorus arundinacew, Bonap. Consp. 1850, 220. 
Telmatodytes arundinaceus , Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 78. (Type.) 
