172 CHARACTERS OF THE WESTERN HOUSE WREN 



b. parkmani 



TrOffloditeS flllVlls, Oniith. Comm. Joiirii. Phila. Acad. vii. 1837, 193. 



Troglodytes fulvus, Tuwns.Jowra. Phila. Aead. viii. 1839, 154. 



Troglodytes parkmiinil, .^«rf. OB. v. 1839, ZlO.— diul. Syn. 1839, 75.-Tuinns. Jouin. Pliila. 

 AcM<l. 1839, I5i.— Nun. Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, 483— /l«d. BA. ii. 1841, t.3.3, pi. 122. 



Troglodytes parkinauni, ;?/). CA. i. 1850, -2i2.—Bd. BSA. 18.o8, mi.— Bd. U. S. Mex. B. 

 Smv. ii. pt. ii. 1859, 13.— Xa?it. Pi-. Phila. Acad. 1859, 191.-0. If S. NHVVT. 1860, 191.— 

 Bd. Ives's Rep. pt. v. 18G1, d. — Blakist. T'oIh, iv. 18R2, 5 (Saskatchewan) ; 1863, G7. — Hayd. 

 Tr. Am. Philos. Soc. xii. 1862, I6i.—Bd. Rev. AB. 1864, lH. — Coaes, Ibis, IS*)), 164.— 

 Couea, Pr. Phila. Acad. 18G0, 78.— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 421.-00^^7. B. Cal. 1. 1870, 71, fig.— 

 Ooop. Pr. Gala. Acad. 1870, 75. — Oi>op. Am. Nat. iv. 1871, 7.58.— /li/ci. Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 

 275.— Merr. U. S. Geol. Surv. 1873, 673, 713.— RW^. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 200. 



Troglodytes imrkniaiii, Aiken, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 196. 



Troglodytes parkniaiinii.^tev. U. S. Geol. Surv. for 1870, 1871, 4G4. 



Troglodytes ledon, S. ff H- PBA. ii. 1831, 316, fig. (Rocky Mountains). 



Troglodytes aedoil, Heerm. PRRR. i. 1859, M.-Holdeii, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 196. 



Troglodytes a?don var. parkinanni, Goues, Key, 1372, 97.— Ridgr. Bull. E^s. lust. v. 1873, 

 1^0. — Yarr.'^ Hcnsh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 8.—B. B. Sf R. NAB. i. 1874, iai— Allen 

 Pr. Bo.st, Soc. xvii. 1874, 5').— Nelson, Pr. Bo.st. Soc. xvii. 1875, 357. 



Troglodytes aedon var. parkm-llllli, Cones, BNW. 1874, 32.— //ens/t. Rep. Oru. Specs. 1874, 

 41, 57, 74, \0l. -BeNsh. Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. 1876, 184. 



Troglodytes acdon var. parkmani, Allen, Am. Nat. vii. 1873, Z62.—rrippe apud Coues, BNW. 

 1874. 2:n.—Hensk. List B. Ariz. 1875, 155. 



Troglodytes sylvestris, Gamb. Pr. Phila. Acad. iii. 1846, 113. 



Troglodytes ainericanus, Gamb. Journ. Phila. Acad. i. 1847, :Vi. —Heerm. Journ. Phila. Acad. ii. 

 1853, 263.— f/cHry,Pr. Phila. Acad. vii. 1855,309; xi. 1859, \07.— Heerm. PRRR. x. 1859, 41. 



Parkiiians or Parkmann's Wren, Western House Wren, Authors. 



Hab. — Of tlie typical form, Eastern Uuited States and British Provinces; 

 west to Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, &.c. Of var. parkmani, United States 

 from the high central plains to the Pacific. 



Ch. sr. (b. PARKMANI). — $ 9 Bnuineus, urojjygio vix discolore, 

 notcm, alls cauddqiie fusco transfasciatis ; infra bnaineo-albidus, 

 abdomine albicante, hypochondriis crissoqiie fasoiatis. Statura 

 T. aedoniSj sed alis eaiiddque longioribus. 



$ 9 : Brown above, little brighter on the rump, nearly everywhere waved 

 with dnsky, strongest on the wings and tail, bnt usually verj^ appreciable 

 on the whole back as well. Below brownisli-white, becoming nearly pure 

 white on the belly, obscurely variegatetl with darker markings, which, on 

 the flanks and crissum, become stronger bars, alternating with brown and 

 whitish ones. Bill blackish above, pale below ; feet brown. Length, 5 

 inches or a little more; extent, 6f ; wing, 2 or rather more; tail almost 2. 



With a very close resemblance to typical aedoii, this form differs appreci- 

 ably in some points of form as well as of color. The wings and tail are 

 decidedly longer, and this elongation of the wing results in a different 

 relative proportion of the first primary, the exposed portion of which in 

 aedon is about half as long as the longest primaiy, while the same in parJc- 

 mani is only about half as long as the second primary. The Colorado region 

 furnishes extreme cases of this difference, as it also does of the paleness of 

 color which characterizes the western style of House Wren. The bird has a 

 faded appearance in comparison with typical aedon, and the brownish of the 

 rump is little different from that of the back. 



