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locality has been designated for the typical form so far as I am aware, 

 though several races have been segregated. Assignment of the speci- 

 mens from Tres Zapotes and vicinity is tentative, as it must be noted 

 that they seem to resemble the form impudens described by Bangs 

 and Peters from Oaxaca. 



PHEUGOPEDIUS MACULIPECTUS MACULIPECTUS (Lafresnaye) 



Thriothonts maculipectus Lafresnaye, Rev. ZooL, vol. 8. 1845. p. 337 (Veracruz, 

 Mexico"). 

 A good series comes from Tres Zapotes, taken between January 22 

 and April 11, with one bird from the base of Cerro de Tuxtla, May 7, 

 and three from El Conejo, February 10 and 12 and May 15. There is 

 a further specimen in the National Museum taken at Tlacotalpam on 

 May 28, 1894, by Nelson and Goldman. Carriker encountered it to 

 about 1,000 feet elevation in the Sierra de Tuxtla. This was a common 

 wren throughout the region, ranging indifferently in undergrowth in 

 heavy forest, in second growth, and in clumps of brush scattered 

 through old fields and pastures. It is found usually near the ground. 

 The clear, ringing song, to be represented by the syllables cho ho cho 

 ho, repeated several times, was heard daily at camp and during trips 

 into the field, one of the most pleasing bird sounds of the region. As 

 early as March 24 I saw one displaying before another with bill point- 

 ing skyward, spread tail and shaking wings. Carriker shot a grown 

 juvenile individual at El Conejo on May 15. This bird has only a 

 very few faint spots on the f oreneck. Two adults from this same point 

 have the black spotting reduced in size and in extent over the lower 

 breast, and the dorsal surface slightly paler than other skins in the 

 present series. It is possible that there is a coastal form in this area. 



TROGLODYTES AEDON AEDON Vieillot: Eastern House Wren 



Troglodytes aedon Vieillot, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique 

 septentrionale, vol. 2, 1807 (1808 or 1809), p. 52, pi. 107 (New York, N. Y."). 



Carriker shot a male of this race of the house wren at Tres Zapotes 

 on January 20, 1940, this being the most southern point at which it 

 has as yet been found. 



TROGLODYTES AEDON PARKMANH Audubon: Western House Wren 



Troglodytes Parkmanii Audubon, Ornithological biography, vol. 5, 1839, p. 310 

 (near Fort Vancouver, Wash.). 



At Tres Zapotes I shot a female on March 8 and a male on April 4. 

 Other house wrens were seen on March 12 and 30, the latter being in 

 song. The race of these last two is uncertain, as the birds were not 



M Designated by L. Oriseom, Proc. New England Zottl. Club, vol. 12, Apr. 3, 1930, p. 

 *> Designated by H. C. ,Oberholser, Ohio Journ. Sci., vol. 34, Mar. 1034, p. 87. 



