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Fig. 150. —Winter Wren, little reduced, 
figure of A. alascensis.) 
(Baird's 
shorter than the head. Tail much shorter than the wings. Length 3.90-4.10; extent 6.00- 
6.50; wing 1.75; tail 1.25; bill 0.40; tarsus, middle toe, and claw together, about 1.12. 
N. Am. at large, common, migratory, breed- 
ing from New England and corresponding 
latitudes northward, wintering in the U. S., 
the strict representative of the European 
wren. Nest of twigs, moss, lichens, hair, 
feathers, etc., usually in a stump or log 
close to the ground ; eggs 5-8, 0.65 X 0.48, 
pure white, minutely dotted with reddish- 
brown and purplish. A sly, secretive little 
bird, less often seen than other wrens no less 
common ; voice strong and highly musical. 
A. t. paci'flcus ? (Lat. pacificus, pacific, 
peace-making; pax and facio; alluding to 
the stilly sea. ") Western Winter Wren. Like the last ; darker, in lack of the 
whitish specks of the upper parts, aud whitish bars on outer webs of the primaries; but 
very slightly distinguished. Pacific Coast region. 
A. t. alascen'sis. (Of Alaska.) Alaskan Winter Wren. Like the common species in 
form and coloration; larger; size of a house wren; wing 2.00-2.20; tail 1.50; tarsus 0.75 J 
tarsus, middle toe, and claw together 1.40 ; bill 0.65. Culmen, gape, and gonys almost per- 
fectly straight, latter slightly ascending. Aleutian and Pribylov Islands, Alaska. Well dis- 
tinguished from the common form, and nearer the Japanese A. fumigatus. 
TELMATO'DYTES. (Gr. reXfia, telma, a swamp; dvrqs, dutes, an inhabitant.) Marsh 
Wrens. Small. Upper parts not uniform ; back streaked lengthwise with white in a black 
patch; flanks scarcely or not barred; crown plain; bill about two-thirds as long as head. 
Eggs dark. 
T. palus'tris. (Lat. palustris, marshy ; palus, a marsh. Fig. 151.) Long -billed Marsh 
Wren. Above clear brown, unbarred, the middle of the back with a large black patch sharply 
streaked with white (these M^hite stripes sometimes de- 
ficient). Crown of head usually darker than the back, 
often quite blackish, and continuous with the black inter- 
scapular patch. A dull white superciliary line. Wings 
fuscous, the inner secondaries blackish on the outer webs, 
often barred or indented with light brown. Tail evenly 
barred with fuscous and the color of the back. Under 
parts white, usually quite pure on the belly and middle 
line of the breast and throat, but much shaded with 
brown on the sides, flanks, and crissum. Bill blackish 
above, pale below; feet brown. Length about 5.00; 
Fig. 151. — Long-billed Marsh Wren, 
nat. size. (Ad nat. del. E. C.) 
extent 6.50; wing 1.75-2.00; tail about the same; bill 0.50 or more; tarsus 0.66-0.75. 
Temperate N. Am. ; G-reenland. Breeds throughout its range, and winters in the Southern 
States ; an abundant bird, colonizing reedy swamps and marshes in large numbers, its great 
globular nests of plaited rushes, with a hole in the side, being affixed to the swaying herbage ; 
eggs 6-10, 0.58 X 0.45, very dark-colored, being so thickly dotted with chocolate-brown as to 
appear almost uniformly of this color. 
80. T. p. paludi'cola? (Lat. paludicola, a marsh-inhabiter; and coIo, I cultivate.) TuLfi 
Marsh Wren. Scarcely recognizable as distinct; bill said to be shorter, and tail and its 
coverts more distinctly barred. Pacific Coast. 
