lURDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 595 



TROGLODYTES GUADELOUPENSIS (Cory). 

 GUADELOUPE WREN. 



Siiuihir to T. rxifescenx.^ but duller in color, the upper parts less 

 rutV.scent ])rowii (nearer prouts brown or deep niunnn}- l)ro\vn than 

 Vandyke or burnt-umber), the under parts more l)ufiy cinnamon; 

 under tail-coverts tipped with white, and Hanks usually more or less 

 barred with dusky. 



Adult male.— L,^wgi\\. (skins), 100-127 (115);" winj>-, 50.5-58.5 (5J.0);* 

 tiiil, 30.5— 12.5 (38.8);'" exposed eulmen, 15-1().5 (15.5);-' tarsus. 17.5- 

 19 (18.3);'^ middle toe, 12.5-14 (13. 5). '^ 



Adult female.— Yj^w-gVix (skins), 101-117 (107); wing-, 48-49 (48.5); 

 tail, 39-39.5 (39); exposed eulmen, 15-1(5 (15.3); tarsus, 18.5-19 (18.8); 

 middle toe, 13-13.5 (13.3). '^ 



Island of Guadeloupe (Grande Terre), Lesser Antilles. 



Tfinjothorus ritfescens (not of Lawrence, 1877) Lawrenx'e, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1879, 453 (Guadeloupe), 486, part (Guadeloupe).— Coky, W. L, 1885, 7, 

 part (Guadeloupe); Auk, iii, 1886, 24, part (Guadeloupe); Birds AV. I., 

 1889, 38, part (Gua.leloupe) ; Cat. W. I. Birdn, 1892, 18, 120, jjart ((iuade- 

 loupe ) . 



[T'liri/otlioruH'] rufescens Cory, Li.st r>ird8 W. I., 1885, 7, part (Guadeloupe). 



Thri/otliorus guadeloupeiisia Cory, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 381 ((Jrande Terre, Guade- 

 loupe, Lesser Antilles; coll. C. B. Cory); v, 1888, 157; Ibis, 1886, 474 (Grande 

 Terre); Birds W. L, 1889, 286; Cat. W. L Birds, 1892, 18, 120, 133, 156. 



Troglodytes guadeloupensis Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. I\Ius., xxvii, no. 1354, 

 Jan 23, 1904, 209 (crit.). 



Genus OLBIORCHILUS Oberholser. 



Anortliurn (not of Rennie, 1831/) of Actiioks. 



(?) Nanmis Billberg, Synop. Fauna- Scand., i, ])t. 2, 1828, 57. (Type, MotaciUa 



troglodytes Linnanis? 'J. ) 

 Olbiorcldlus f^ Oberholser, Auk, xix, no. 2, Aj)ril, I!H)2, 177. (Ty2)e, Mutncilhi 



troglodytes Linn;eus. ) 



Very small Troglodytida' (wing- less than 55 mm.) resembling Trt>- 

 glod///f'.^, l)ut with tlx^ tall not more than two-thii'ds as long as wing 

 and shorter than combined length of tarsus and middle toe (with 

 claw), and with the bill slenderly straight-subulate. 



"Seven specimens. 



f' Four specimens. 



'^Six specimens. 



''Eight specimens. 



'Three specimens. 



/See Newton, Dictionary of I'.irds, 189t), lO.'il; llowf, Auk. xix, 1902,89; 01)erhol- 

 ser, Auk, xix, 1902, 175. 



f/This work not seen by anyone in America, and there is doubt as to whether the 

 author based the new name exclusively on }f. troglodytes or, like Kennie in the ca.^e 

 of Anorthiiro, merely gave the name Xmnnts as a substitute for Troglodytes. 



/'From "oAfJio, felix; o/j^/Aog, regulus." 



