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hue on sides and fiiinks, which are more or less distinctly l)arred (nar- 

 rowl}') with darker brown or dusk}"; under tail-coverts dull white, 

 more or less tinged or intermixed with rusty brown and irregularly 

 barred with black; maxilla dusky brown or blackish, with paler tomia; 

 mandible paler brownish; iris brown; legs and feet light brownish (in 

 dried skins). 



Adults in autumn and winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 plumage, but coloration slightly deeper, the brown of upper parts 

 sometimes approaching chestnut-brown. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but Hanks and under tail-coverts 

 plain russet, or light russet-brown, and superciliary streak obsolete; 

 chest sometimes (more rarely throat also ) flecked with brown or dusky. 



Adidt male.—l^Qwgih (skins), 107-115 (111); wing, 40-53 (50.7); tail, 

 40-44 (42.2); exposed culmen, 11-13 (12.4); tarsus, 16.5-18.5 (17.7); 

 middle toe, 11-13 (12). « 



Adult female.— l^^ngih. (skins), 105-111 (10!»); wing, 47-53 (50.2); 

 tail, 39-43 (41.3); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.2); tarsus, 17-18 (17.4); 

 middle toe, 11.5-13 (12.2).^ 



Eastern United States and Canada; north to New Brunswick (Grand 

 Falls), Maine (Oxford County), Ontario (Hamilton, ^Nliiskoka, etc.), 

 Michigan (Wequetonsing; Mackinac Island), etc. ; west to Indiana (Knox 

 Count}^) and Kentuckv (Fulton County); wintering chiefly in the Gulf 

 States, but extending through eastern Texas (Nueces Bay, December 1; 

 Alice, October 5; Santa Rosa, September 27) to eastern Mexico (Alta 

 Mira,^ Tamaulipas, April 8). 



Troglodytes xdon Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 52, pi. 107 (North America; 

 no special locality designated); Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 

 506.— Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 187; Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ii, 1826, 92; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 11.— Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., i, 1831, 427; v, 1839, 470, pi. 83; Synopsis, 1839, 75; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., ii, 1841, 125, pi. 120.— (?)Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, 312 

 (Wisconsin). — Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 84. — Putnam, Pruc. 

 Essex Inst, i, 1856, 208 (Massachusetts). — Haymond, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1856, 288 (Indiana).— Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 149 

 (Oxford Co., Maine). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 138, part (Carlisle, 

 Pennsylvania; District of Columbia; Macon, Georgia; Cape Florida, and 

 Indian Key, Florida). — MclLWRArrn, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 88 (Hamil- 

 ton, Ontario). — Bairu, Brewer, and Rujgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 149, part, pi. 9, fig. 5. — Langdon, Birds Cincinnati, 1877, 4 (rare; common 

 at Columbus). 



[Troylodyles] xdon Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 87. 



Troglodytes aedon Peabodv, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 314.— Nuttali., Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 475.— Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 222.— 

 Bairi), Rep. Paiatic R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 367, part (Pennsylvania; District 

 of Columbia; Florida); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 270.— Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 49; Birds Northwest, 1874, 32, part.— Allen, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. ZooL, 11, 1871, 265, excl. syn. part (e. Florida, winter); Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., i, 1886, 260 (Massachusetts).— Brewsfer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 ill, 1878,21 (descr. young). — Covert, Birds Washtenaw Co., Mich., 1881, 

 176 (summer resident). — Merrjam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. iClub, vi, 1881, 227 



« Ten specimens. ^ Six specimens. '^ The only extralimital specimen seen by me. 



