Perching Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked 



7 15. Rock Wren {Salpinctes obsoletus). L. 5.7. 

 Ads. Rump rusty; tail tipped and outer feathers 

 barred with pale rusty; above grayish brown lightly 

 speckled with blackish; below, including belly, whitish; 

 breast obscurely streaked with brownish. Notes. 

 Calls, Wren-like; song, sweet, varied and Mockingbird- 

 like. 



Range. — "Western United States, from the western border of the 

 Plains to the Pacific, north to Dakota, Montana, and British Colum- 

 bia; south on the tablelands of Mexico and Guatemala to Salvador; 

 breeds throughout its range, and is resident from about the southern 

 border of the United States southward." (A. O. U.) 



7 16. Guadalupe Rock Wren (Salpinctes guadelou- 



petisis). Resembling No. 715, but darker and browner, 

 with chest, etc., more distinctly speckled; wings and 

 tail shorter; bill and tarsi lunger; W. 2.6; T. 2.2. 

 (Ridgw.) 



Range. — Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 



7 17. White-throated Wren (Catherpes mexicunus 

 albifrons). L. 6; W. 2.7. Ads. Belly, rump, and all 

 tail-feathers rusty; tail barred with black; throat white; 

 back rusty brown. 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas and southward into 

 northeastern Mexico. 



7 17a. Canon Wren (C. m. conspersus). Similar to 

 No. 717, but smaller, W. 2.3; tail-bars narrower. 

 Notes. Call, a "ringing dink;'' 1 song, a series of about 

 seven, loud, ringing whistles uttered in a regularly de- 

 scending scale. 



Range. — "Great Basin and Rocky Mountain region, from the Sierra 

 Nevada and Cascades eastward to southern Idaho, Wyoming, Color- 

 ado and western Texas: south on the tableland of Mexico to Aguas 

 Calientes; breeds nearly throughout its range; resident in southern 

 parts of its United States distribution." (A. O. U.) 



7 17b. Dotted Canon Wren (C. m. punctulatus) . 



Similar to No- 717a, but darker; more nearly resemb- 

 ling No. 717 in colors, but smaller in size. 



Range. — Pacific coast from Lower California north to Oregon; resi- 

 dent. 



7 18. Carolina Wren {Thryotborus ludovicianus). 



L. 5.5; W. 2.3; B. .6. Ads. Above bright rust-brown; 

 below washed with same, throat and line over eye 

 white. Notes. Calls, Wren-like; song, a great variety 

 of loud, musical whistles, wbee-udel, wbee-udel, whee-udel 



Or tea-kettle, tea-kettle, tea-kettle, etc. 



Range — Eastern United States; breeds from the Gulf States north 

 to the lower Hudson Valley (and casually Massachusetts), northern 

 Illinois, and southern Iowa; resident. 



7 18a. Florida Wren (T. /. miamensis). Similar to 

 No. 718, but darker above, more deeply colored below; 

 larger, W. 2.4; B. ,7. 



Range. — Florida, from Pasco and Brevard counties southward. 



7 18b. Lomita Wren (T. I. lomitensis). Similar to 

 No. 718, but browner, less rufous above, rump with 

 more white spots; below paler, the flanks usually 

 barred. 



Range.- Southeastern Texas. 



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