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Range. — From near tree limit in northwestern Alaska, northeastern British 

 Columbia, and central western Alberta south to southern California and 

 southern New Mexico. Accidental in the Black Hills, South Dakota, and in 

 western Nebraska. [A closely allied race occurs in Mexico and Guatemala.] 



Family TROGLODYTIDAE. Wrens. 



Genus TROGLODYTES Vieillot. 



Troglodytes Vieillot, Oiseaux Amer. Sept., II, 1807 [1808, possibly 1809], 

 52. Type, by subs, desig.. Troglodytes sedon Vieillot (Baird, 1858). 



Troglodytes aedon aedon^ Vieillot. Eastern House Wren. [721.] 



Troglodytes sedon Vieillot, Oiseaux Amer. Sept., II, 1807 [1808, possibly 

 1809], 52 (pi. 107). (No definite locality mentioned = eastern United 

 States.) 



Range. — Breeds chiefly in the Transition and Upper Austral zones from 

 Michigan, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and New Brunswick south to 

 Kentucky, Virginia, and the uplands of South Carolina. Winters in eastern 

 Texas and Tamaulipas, and in the South Atlantic and Gulf states (rarely to 

 New Jersey). 



Troglodytes aedon parkmani Audtjbon. Western House Wren. [721a.] 



Troglodytes Parkmanii Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 310. (Columbia 

 River [= near Fort Vancouver, Washington].) 



Range. — Breeds from southern British Columbia, central Alberta, central 

 Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, and northern Wisconsin south to the San 

 Pedro Mdrtir Mountains, Lower California, southern Arizona, central western 

 Texas, southern Missouri, and southwestern Kentucky. Winters from Cali- 

 fornia and Texas southward in Mexico to Jalisco, Guerrero, and Oaxaca; also 

 occasionally in northern and central Florida. Casual in northern Illinois. 



Genus NANNUS Billberg. 



Nannus Billberg, Synops. Faunae Scand., I, Pt. ii, 1828, table A, and 

 p. 57. Type, by monotypy, Motacilla troglodytes Linnaeus. 



Nannus hiemalis hiemalis (Vieillot). Eastern Winter Wren. [722.] 



Troglodytes hiemalis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., 

 XXXIV, 1819, 514. (a la Nouvelle-Ecosse et dans I'Etat de New- 

 York = New York.)2 



Range. — Breeds in the Canadian Zone from southern Alberta, southern 

 Manitoba, northern Ontario, central Quebec, and Newfoundland south to 



1 The "a" and "e" are separate syllables; not a diphthong. 

 ^ The North American Winter Wrens are often regarded as subspecies of the 

 European N. troglodytes. 



