156 SYNONYMY AND DESCRIPTION OF CACTUS WREN 



Cactus Wren 



Campy lorliyiiclins brunneicapillns 



PICOlaptCS bniinieicapiUus, Lafr. " Mag. de Zool. 1835, 01, pi. 47" (?" California").— I«2fr. 

 Ami. Lye. N. Y. v. I8.vi, IH (Texas).— Brf. Stansbnry'.s Rep. 1852, •iil.—Heerm. Joum. 

 Phila. Arafl. ii. 1853, 263.— Oas.s. 111. B. Cal. & Tex. 1854, 1.5(i, pi. 2.5. 



Campylorhynchus brunncicapillus, Gray, G. of B. i. 1847, 159.— B/). CA. i. 1850, ^2Z.—Scl. 

 Pr. Ptiila. Acad. viii. 1856, 264.— M. BNA. 1858, 355.— M U. S. Mex. B. Surv. ii. pt. ii. 

 1859, Birds, \2.—Bd. Proc. Phila. Acad. 1859, 304.— flcfrm. PRKR. x. 1859, Williamsou'g 

 Route, Birds, i\.—Bd. Rev. AB. i. 1864, 99.— Dress. Ibis, 1865, 483 (Texas).— CoMes, Pr. 

 Phila. Acad. 1866, 77 (Arizona) ; 1868, 83 (the »iime).— Butcher, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1868, 

 149 (Laredo, Tex.). — Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 183.— Coo;). B. Cal. i. 1870, 61, figs.— Oomcs, 

 Key, 1872, S5.—Merr. U. S. Geol. Surv. Ter. for 1872, 1873, 713 (Utah).— Fam Sf Hensh. 

 Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874. 9.—Hcush. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1871, 41, 100.— B. B. 6f R. NAB. i. 

 1874, 132, fig. pi. 8, f. 5.—Hensh. Zool. ExpL W. 100 Merid. 1876, 178 (Utah, &c.). 



faraplorynclius brunneicapillus, Hensh. ListB. Ariz. 1875, 155. 



Browu-lu'ajlcd Creeper, Cass. 1. c. 



Caliroriiiaii t'actus-wren. Coop. I.e. 



Cactus Wren, B. B. <v R. I. c. 



H.\B. — Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Utah, Soutbern Nevada, auel 

 portions of Califoruia. Northern Mexico. 



Ch. sp. — $ 9 Griseo-fuscus, alho nigroque notatus, pileo ohscure 

 hninneo, immaculato ; infra riifoalbus, postlce rufescens^ guld 

 macidis magnis rotundatis nigris, 7'eUquis partihus punctis sparsis 

 nigris ; caudd nigricante, rectrice externa alho niultifasciatd, reli- 

 quis, mediis exceptis, alho uni/asciatis. 



$ , adult : Back grayish-brown, marked with black and white, each feather 

 having a central white field several times indented with black. Whole 

 crown of head and nape rich dark wood-brown, immaculate. A long white 

 superciliary stripe from nostril to nape. Beneath, nearly pure white anter- 

 iorly, gradually shading behind into decided cinnamon-brown — the throat 

 and fore part of the breast marked with numerous large, crowded, rounded, 

 black spots, the rest of the under parts with small, sparse, oval or linear, black 

 spots, again enlarging somewhat on the crissum. Wings darker and more 

 fuscous-brown than the back; all the quills with a series of numerous white 

 or whitish indentations along the edge of both webs — largest and purest on 

 the inner webs. Central tail-feathers like the wings, with numenms, more 

 or less incomplete, blackish bars ; other tail-feathers blackish, the outer 

 with several broad white bars on both webs; the rest with usually only a 

 single comj^lete white bar near the end. Bill dark plumbeous, paler below ; 

 iris orange. Length, near 8 inches ; wing, 3 or more ; tail rather longer 

 thau the wing; bill, | ; tarsus, 1. 



5, adult : Quite like the $ , but the spots on the throat and breast rather 

 smaller, therefore less crowded, and less strongly contrasting with the sparse 

 speckling of the rest oi the under parts. 



Young : A newly fledged specimen before me is very similar to the adult 

 on the upper parts, but the throat is whitish with little speckling, and there 

 are scarcely any spots on the rest of the under parts, which are, however, 

 as decidedly cinnamon as those of the adults. 



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