lUROS OK NORTH AND MTDDL?: AMERICA. 569 



Nat. Mus. )• — CiKAYsoN, IVoc. Host. Soc. N. II., xiv, 1872, 20!). — Law kence, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. II., ii., 1874, 268 (habits; song).— Salvin and Godmak, 

 Biol. Ct'ntr.-Am., Avets, i, 1880, 99.— Riixjway, Noni. N. Am. Binls, 1881, 

 no. 64.— Town-send (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu.s., xiii, 1800, 1.35.— Anthony, 

 Ank, XV, 1898, 317. 



Tlroglodj/tes] iiisularis Rin(;\VAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 553. 



[Troglodytes dornestlcus.] Subsp. ;'. Troglodytes inmdarix Siiaki'e, fat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., vi., 1881, 251. 



Thrifomanes insularif Obkhuolhkr, Proc. U. S. Nat. I\Ins., xxi, Nov. 19, 1.S98, 446 

 (monogr. ). 



Genus TROGLODYTES Vieillot. 



Troglodgtes Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Uis. Am., Sept., ii, 1807, 52. (Type, T. aedon 



Vieillot.") 

 Uylemathrous Maximilian, Beitriig. Naturg. Bras., iii, 1830, 742, part. (To 



replace Thnjothorus, i. e., Thri/othorus- Troglodi/tes, reiected on ground of 



inapjiropriateiiess. " ) 

 IhjlcmolhrovK (emendation?) Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 191, no. 72.3. 

 Anorthnra Rennie, in Montague's Orn. Diet., ed. 2, 1831, 570. (To replace 



Troglodytes, rejected on ground of inappropriateness. '') 

 Paulomagus Howe, Suppl. Birds Rhode Island, 1903, 22, footiu)te. (Type, 



Troglodytes aedon N'ieillot. ) 



Small Troo-lodytidie (wino- 4()-f>0 imn.) resemblino- T/t/-//omanes in 

 having the hallux (without claAv) not longcu" than out(M" toe (without 

 claw), but in other characters more like T/wyotJiorus. 



Bill much shorter to a little longer than head, straight (or at 

 least with only the tip veiy faintly decurved), graduall}- tapering, 

 compressed anterior to nostrils, its depth at latero-frontal anti» equal 

 to or (usually) greater than its width at same point; exposed oulinen 

 usuall}' longer than middle toe without claw (shorter only in T. aedon)^ 

 straight basally (usually for most of its length), gradually and not very 

 strongly decurved tiM-minally; gon3-s decidedly shorter than distance 

 from nostril to tip of maxilla, straight, its base usually forming a dis- 

 tinct, though slight, angle; maxillary tomiuui faintly concave anterior 

 to nostril, without trac(> of suhterminal notch. Nostril longitudinal. 

 cuneate or guttate (pointed anteriorly), overhung by a distinct excur- 

 rent corneous opercidum, posteriorly in contact with feathering of 

 latero-frontal antiic. Rictal l)ristles obsolete. Wing moderate, 

 rounded; seventh and sixth (or eighth to fifth) primaries longest, the 

 eighth and fifth never much shorter than seventh and sixth; ninth 

 ])rimary usually (Mjual to or slightly longer than first (slightly shorter in 

 X- hrimnetcol/ls), the tenth half as long as ninth or a litth^ more. Tail 

 two-thirds to moi-e than ti\'e-si.\ths as long as wing, nuich rounded or 

 graduated, the i«>ctrices rather narrow, with roiuuled tip. Tarsus 

 longer than luiddh' toe with claw, less than one-third to considerably 

 more than one-third as long as wing, the acrotarsium distinctl}' scutel- 



aSee Oberholser, Auk, xix, 1902, 175, 176. 



ftSee Newton, Dictionary of Birds, 1896, 1051, fooinot*-; obcrliolst'r, Ank, xix, 

 1902, 175, 176. 



