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white or pinkish, finely speckled or sprinkled on or around larger end with 

 reddish brown and lilac. 



The heuoickii group are strongly marked 

 wrens with their striking superciliary, light 

 spotty cornered tails, and melodious songs. 

 The song of the Vigors wren, when heard 

 in southern California with the Parkmau, 

 though not so ebullient, is richer, sweeter, 

 more musical, and altogether of decidedly 

 superior quality. 



Where there are houses, Thryomanes nests 

 like the house wrens in odd nooks and cor- 

 ners about buildings, but otherwise on 

 brushy hillsides and in such congenial 

 places. One Texan Bewick was found by 

 Mr. Bailey nesting in a tin can turned over 

 a fence post, the entrance being through an enlarged bullet hole. 



719b. T. b. leucogaster {Baird). Baird Wren. 



Upper parts pale grayinh brown, tinged with rufous on rump ; middle tail 

 feathers brown, barred with black, rest of feathers mainly black, the three 

 outer pairs with grayish white tips ; superciliary white ; under parts 

 whitisli, purer on throat ; under tail coverts heavilv barred with black. 

 Wing: ::.20, tail 1^2:5, bill .rj5. 



Distribution. — Western Texas to southeastern California, and from 

 southern Nevada, Utah, and Colorado south over tablelands of Mexico to 

 Zacatecas. 



719c. T. b. cryptus Oberh. Texas Bewick Wren. 



Superciliary white ; upper parts rich icar?n brown, more rufous on rump ; 

 tail with middle feathers and bases of outer webs of all but outside pair 

 hair brown, barred with black ; rest of tail black, faintly barred with 

 Hg'hter ; two outer pairs of feathers tipped Avitli grayish white ; under 



Fig. 572. Vigors Wren. 



parts g-rayish. 



W 



ing : 



5, tail 2.24, exposed culmen 



Distribution. — Texas, except extreme western corner ; Nuevo Leon and 

 Tamaulip.'is. Mexico, and probably Kansas, Indian Territory, and Okla- 

 homa ; migratory north of Texas. 



719d. T. b. charienturus Oberh. Southwest Bewick Wren. 



Superciliary white ; upper parts grayish brown, sliglitly rufous on rump ; 

 tail black except for middle fentliers which are liair brown, barred with 

 black, outside feathers tij)ped with gray, outer webs barred with dingy 

 white, rest of feathers tipped with l)rown ; under parts white or grayish ; 

 cri.ssum heavily barred with black. Wing: 2.08, tail 2.02. exposed cul- 

 men ..")4. 



Distribution. — Resident from Pa.sadena along" the coast region of Cali- 

 fornia to Lower California ; Santa Catalina Island. 



719e. T. b. calophonus OifrA. Northwest Hkwk k When. 



Superciliary white ; u])i)er parts rich dark brown, sliglitly deeper on 

 head ; tail black, middle feathers sepia brown barred with black, the rest 



