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ZOOLOGY. 
Bewick’s wren seems to be tlie representative of the Carolina wren in the west, having 
all its talent and variety of song, but I believe never mimicking other birds, though its notes 
may sometimes resemble their songs. I have often been led through dense thickets and 
swamps by this deceiving songster, expecting to find some new bird. This and the winter 
wren are among the few birds that enliven the long rainy season with their songs, which are 
as constantly heard in the dullest weather as in the sunny spring. I could never discover its 
nest, which is probably built in the hollow of a stump or log. Young broods appear as early 
as June 1.—C. 
This wren is very abundant near Puget Sound. It is a constant resident throughout the 
year, and is not less abundant during winter. In January and February it is found on sunny 
days among low thickets and crabapple brush. Here, in company with the smaller species, 
T. hyemalis and parlemanni, it may be seen flitting about on the ground and among low branches 
in quest of food. At this season they are very tame, allowing a man to approach without 
suspicion or evident fear. Its notes during cold Aveather are short and low. Later, however, 
during the breeding season, the voice of the male becomes harsh and loud, not much unlike 
that of the common house wren of the Atlantic States.—S. 
CISTOTHORUS PALUSTRIS, Cabanis. 
Long-billed Marsli 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. II, 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. YI, iv, 1857, 80. 
Thyrothoruspalustris, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 439.— Bon. List, 1838. 
Thryothorus arundineus, Vjeillot, Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1819, 58. (Not Troglodytes arundinaceus, Vieillot, Ois. 
Am. II, pi cviii.) 
Thryothorus arundinaceus, Bonap. Consp. 1850, 220. 
Telmatodytes arundinaceus, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851,78. (Type.) 
Cistothorus {Telmatodytes)palustris, “ Cab.” Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 364. 
Sp. Ch. —Bill about as long as head. Tail and wing nearly equal. Upper parts of a dull reddish bx-own, except on the 
crown, interscapular region, outer surface of tertials, and tail feathers, which are almost black : the first with a median patch 
like the ground color; the second with short streaks of white, extending round on the sides of the neck; the third indented 
with brown; the fourth barred with whitish, decreasing in amount from the outer feather, which is marked from the base to the 
fifth, where it is confined to the tips; the two middle feathers above like the back, and barred throughout with dusky. Beneath 
rather pure white, the sides and under tail coverts of a lighter shade of brown than the back; a white streak over the eye. 
Length, 5.50; extent, 9.75; wing, 2.08; tail, 2.00. Iris, brown; bill and feet, lighter brown. 
Eab .—North America, from Atlantic to Pacific; north to Greenland. (Reinhardt.) 
I found the marsh Avren abundant in the salt marshes along the coast, and having observed 
them late in fall and early in March, I think they probably Avinter in the Territory.—C. 
Abundant in the salt marshes at the mouths of the rivers emptying into Puget Sound. Like 
the rail, this bird allotvs a very near approach, until the intruder is very nearly upon it, when 
suddenly rising from the long grass, a quick rapid flight for eight or ten yards, a sudden plunge 
into the grass or sedge, and again the little creature is securely hidden. They have a very 
happy faculty of travelling rapidly through the grass, so that it is rare, even Avhen haste is 
made, to flufeli the bird at the same point he was just before “marked doAvn” at. 
A specimen killed on the 18th of July, 1856, on the Nisqually marshes, Puget Sound, 
measured 4.75 inches in length; extent, 6.75. The upper mandible, dusky black; loAver, dusky 
