146 BULLETIN 195, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 TROGLODYTES AEDON BALDWINI Oberholser 

 OHIO HOUSE WREN 



According to Dr. Oberholser's (1934) description, this subspecies 

 is similar to the eastern house wren, "but upper parts darker, much 

 less rufescent (more sooty or grayish) ; the sides and flanks less rufes- 

 cent (more grayish) ; rest of lower surface more grayish (less buffy) ." 

 He says that "this is the darkest of the forms of Troglodytes domesti- 

 cus. It is always less rufescent than Troglodytes domesticus domesti- 

 cus, but it has not only a dark sooty phase of plumage, but also a lighter, 

 more grayish phase that more approaches Troglodytes domesticiis 

 parhmanii. This latter phase is apparently not to be regarded merely 

 as a manifestation of intergradation, since it appears in all parts of the 

 range of Troglodytes domesticus haldwinV 



It breeds from central Quebec, southeastern Ontario, and Michigan 

 south to Kentucky and western Virginia. It migrates in fall and 

 winter to southern Texas and Florida. 



TROGLODYTES BRUNNEICOLLIS VORHIESI Brandt 



APACHE WREN 



HABITS 



While they were in Arizona, in 1945, Dr. H. C. Oberholser and Dr. 

 Herbert Brandt wrote enthusiastic letters to me about their dis- 

 covery of a new bird, its nest, eggs, and young, that would be an addi- 

 tion to the North American list. But I had to wait some time before 

 they gave me the full particulars, which have now been published. 

 The bird that they discovered was a Mexican species of wren, which 

 they found to be commoner than expected in a region where more orni- 

 thological work has been done than in any other section of Arizona. 

 Previous workei-s, including the writer, had overlooked it because of its 

 resemblance to the well-known house wren, to which it is quite closely 

 related. While Frank Willard and I were collecting in the Huachuca 

 Mountains, on May 28, 1922, we took a set of six eggs that we supposed 

 belonged to a western house wren ; the nest was about 30 feet from the 

 ground in a knothole in a large oak at about 7,000 feet elevation ; we 

 noticed that the eggs looked different from house wren's eggs, being 

 more sparingly marked, as described by Dr. Brandt; the eggs went 

 into Mr. Willard's collection, and I do not know where they are now. 

 Perhaps we missed the chance to make this interesting discovery ! 



In naming this wren as a new subspecies, in honor of Dr. Charles 

 T. Vorhies, of the University of Arizona, Dr. Brandt (1945) describes 

 it as "similar to Troglodytes hrwnneicollis cahooni Brewster, from the 

 plateau of northwestern Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua, 



