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to tawny buff). (Eastern United States, exrept northern portinii ami 

 peninsula of Florida, west to western Texas. ) 



Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (p. o41) 

 1)1). Larger" (adult male averaging) wing 62. (i, tuil 51. o, exposed culnien \?>.h, 

 tarsus 22.5; adult female, wing 58.5, tail 48.6, exposed culmen 17.5, tarsus 

 21.5); coloration darker, the back, etc., rich to dark chestnut, tiie under 

 parts tawny clay color or tawny-ochraceous, often barred on sides or iianks 

 with brown or dusky. ( Peninsula of Florida.) 



^ Thryothorus ludovicianus miamensis ( p. 545) 



aa. Wing and tail shorter (adult male averaging, wing less than 59, tail less than 50; 



adult female averaging, wing less than 5(3, tail less than 47.4); upper parts 



duller colored (dull chestnut-brown to grayish brown ). 



/;. Darker and more richly colored, the upper parts dull chestnut-brown, the 



under parts deep clay color or tawny-ochraceous. (State of Nuevo Leon 



and adjacent parts of Coahuila and Tamaulipas, northeastern ]\Icxico. ) 



Thryothorus ludovicianus berlandieri (p. 54<j) 

 hh. Paler and duller colored, the upper parts more grayish brown, the under parts 

 l)ale clay color to buffy white. (Lower Rio Grande Valley. ) 



Thryothorus ludovicianus lomitensis [\^. 547) 



THRYOTHORUS LUDOVICIANUS LUDOVICIANUS (Latham). 

 CAROLINA WREN. 



Adults in spring and summer. — Above plain rusty brown (nearly 

 prouts-brown to chestnut-brown), duller on pileum (especially on 

 forehead), brighter (light chestiuit or rufous-chestnut) on rump and 

 upper tail-coverts; rump with concealed roundish subterminal spots 

 of white, the feathers dark slate color or blackish slate basally; wings 

 and tail duller brown than back, narrowly (.sometime.^ indistinctly) 

 barred with dusky, the exterior rectrices and primaries with inter- 

 spaces between dusky bars much paler (pale bufty or dull whitish, 

 at least in jjart); middle wing'-coverts and some of greater coverts 

 usually with a small triangular terminal spot of white or pale buti'y. 

 margined (except tei'minally) with dusky; a .shai'ply defined and con- 

 spicuous supercili'.irv stripe of white or butfy white, bordered above 

 by a narrow black line along lateral margin of pileiuu and nape; 

 a l>road postocular stripe of rufous-brown occupying upper half 

 (approximately) of auricidar legion. continued (sometimes brokenly) 

 acro.ss side of neck; suborbital region and lower portion of auricular 

 region didl white, butty white, or pale but!', tli(^ feathers narrowly 

 edged or margined with dusky, producing a more or less distinctly 

 streaked or squamate eli'ecti malar region, v\\\\\. and upper throat 

 plain dull white; rest of under jjarts plain dull bully white, nion^ or 

 less strongly tinged with but!" on chest, sides, flanks, and anal region, 

 or distinctly l)ull, deepest on Hanks; inider tail-coverts butly whitish 

 or pale bull, broadly barred with black; tlanks (occasionally sides al.st)) 



" Specimens provisionally referred hon^ from northern Florida are smaller, instead 

 of larger, than 7". /. Indtnirianus, hut in coloration and larger bill agree with T. I. 

 iniaiuensis. See footnote on p. 545. 



