Plate CLXXV. Male and Female.
Bill comparatively very short, nearly straight; wings short, very
convex, with the third, fourth, and fifth quills almost equal. Upper
parts blackish-brown, each feather with a brownish-white line along
the shaft, and the outer edge toward the end reddish-brown; quills
dusky, the outer webs barred with pale yellowish-brown; upper
tail-coverts and tail similarly barred; a pale yellowish streak over
the eye; throat and central part of the breast greyish-white, the rest
of the lower parts pale reddish-brown, the sides under the wings
faintly barred with dusky.
_Male_, 4-3/8, 5-5/8.
Resident during winter from Texas to South Carolina. In spring
proceeds as far eastward as Massachusetts, breeding in all the
fresh-water marshes.
Short-billed Marsh-Wren, Troglodytes brevirostris, Nutt. Man.
v. i. p. 436.
Nuttall's Short-billed Marsh-Wren, Troglodytes brevirostris,
Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 427; v. v. p. 469.