=725. Long-billed Marsh Wren= (_Telmatodytes palustris_). L. 5.2; T. 1.6; B. .5. _Ads._ Crown and foreback largely black, the latter with white streaks; a white stripe over eye; rump cinnamon; below white, sides washed with cinnamon; outer tail-feathers _black_, broadly barred with pale cinnamon. _Notes._ Call, scolding, a characteristic Wren-like _cacking_; song, a reedy, guttural, bubbling trill often sung in flight.
Range.--Eastern North America west to the Rocky Mountains; breeds from the Gulf States north to Massachusetts and Manitoba; winters locally from Massachusetts, south into Mexico.
=725a. Tule Wren= (_T. p. paludicola_). Similar to No. 725, but upper tail-coverts barred, middle tail-feathers more distinctly and broadly barred; underparts usually browner.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from southern California to British Columbia: winters from Washington to Guatemala.
=725b. Worthington Marsh Wren= (_T. p. griseus_). Similar to No. 725, but with less black above; upperparts, sides and flanks pale grayish; dark markings of under tail-coverts, flanks, sides and breast, faint, confused and inconspicuous, sometimes practically wanting. (Brewster.)
Range.--Coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
=725c. Interior Tule Wren= (_T. p. plesius_). Similar to No. 725a, but paler.
Range.--"Western United States, except the Pacific coast; north to British Columbia and Alberta, east to the Rocky Mountains and Texas, south into Mexico." (Oberholser.)
=725.1. Marian Marsh Wren= (_Telmatodytes marianæ_). Similar to No. 725, but upperparts darker; sides and flanks of about same color as rump; under tail-coverts and sometimes breast barred or spotted with black.
=726. Brown Creeper= (_Certhia familiaris americana_). L. 5.6; B. .63. Tail-feathers stiffened and pointed. _Ads._ Rump _rusty_; a _buffy white_ band in the wing; back and crown streaked with whitish, black and rusty; below white. _Notes._ Call, a faint, high, thin _tseep_; song, "an exquisitely pure, tender song of four notes." (Brewster.)
Range.--Eastern North America: breeds from Maine and Minnesota (casually Missouri) northward; winters from about the southern breeding limits to the Gulf States.
=726a. Mexican Creeper= (_C. f. albescens_). Similar to No. 726, but rump rich rusty brown, back black, crown _black_ streaked with white, band in wing white.
