BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 579 



Southcaslcrn Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Totoiitepec; Capulalpaiii), 

 Yucatan (Merida; La Vega), and Chiapas (C'hicharras; Tapachula San 

 Cristobal; Valley of Comitan). and Guatemala (Duenas; Panajachel; 

 Quezaltenang-o; Coban; Retalhuleu). 



Troglodytes, sp.? Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 372 (Mexico). 



Troglodytes aedon (not of Vieillot) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 9 (Duenas' 

 Guatemala). 



(?) Troglodytes aedon Boccard, TJste Oi;^. Guat., 1878, 29. 



(?) [Troglodytes] aedo)i IIkine and Reichenow, Noni. Mus. Ilciii. Orii., 1882, 47 

 ( Ducfias, ( iuatemala) . 



Troglodytes hypaedon Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18()1, 128 (s. Mexico and 

 Guatemala; coll. P. L. Sclater); 1862, 18 (Totontepec and Cai)ulalpaMi, 

 Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 23 (Oaxaca; Guatemala). 



Troglodytes musculus hypaedon Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, no. 1354, 

 Jan. 23, 1904, 204 (crit.). 



[Troglodytes] lessellatus (not T. tecellata Lafresnaye and D'Orlii.^iiy) Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. A v. Neotr., 1873, 7, part. 



Troglodytes intermedius (not of Cabanis) Baird, Review Aul Birds, 1864, 142, 

 part (Totontepec, Oaxaca; Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 

 1869, 199 (]\Ieri(la, Yucatan). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Anu, Aves, 

 i, 1880, 100, part (Duenas, Panajachel, Quezaltenango, Coban, etc., (Guate- 

 mala).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 252, part (Duenas, Retalhu- 

 leu and Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Skinner, Condor, iii, 1901, 94 (Tapachula, 

 Chiapas; habits, etc. ). 



T[roglodytes] iiiterniedius Ridgway, Man. X. Am. Bird.^J, 1887, 554, ])art. 



TROGLODYTES AEDON AEDON Vieillot. 

 HOUSE WREN. 



Adtflts h) sjrring and tfuiianer. — Above brown (nearest prouts 

 brown), duller and g-ra3'eron pileuiii, where the feathers have the cen- 

 tral portion indistinctly darker, brighter, or more rufescent on rump 

 and upper tail-coverts; feathers of rump with concealed roundish spots 

 of wliite, their basal portion dusk}^ slate color; back and scapulars 

 sometimes narrowly and indistinctly barred witli dusky: upper tail- 

 coverts narrowly barred (more or less distinctly) with dusky; tail, 

 greater wing-coverts, and secondaries brown (appi'oaching mars 

 brown) narrowly barred with black; primaries dusky, their outer 

 webs spotted with pale ])rown (becoming whitish on outermost <|uills), 

 these spots in transverse series, forming regular broad bars; a narrow 

 and indistinct superciliar}^ streak of pale grayish brown or grayish 

 burty; a broader })o>tocular streak of deet) brown on ui)per portion of 

 auricular region; suborbital, malar, and auricular regioiLs (except 

 upper portion of the latter) very pale grayisii bufly or dull brownish 

 white, the last narrowly streaked with brown; chui, throat, and al)do- 

 men dull white, the last sometimes more or le.>«s speckled with dusky; 

 chest and side^. of breast (sometnnes throat also) very pale grayish 

 brown or grayish bufty , passmg into a deeper and more decidedly brown 



