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Troglodytes hyemalis, Vieillot. 



THE WINTER WEEN. 



Si/lvia Imrjlixhites, Wilson, Am. Orii. I. 18(18, 1.39; pi. viii. f. G. 



Troglodi/les lii/emalis, Vieili.ot, Noiiv. Diet. XXXIV. 1819, 514. — SwAiNSON, T. B. Am. 



II. 1831,318. —Audubon, Oni. Biog. IV. 1838, 430; pi. 360. Ib. Birds Amer. II. 



1841, 128; pi. 121.— Ndttall, Man. 2(1 cd. 481. 

 Tm/Iof/ijti's Americamis, Heekjiann, P. R. Rep. X. vi. 41 (not of Auduuon '). 

 Tror/loc/i/les [Anorlhiira] hyemalis, Baikd, P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 369. — Cooper and Suckley, 



XII. iii. Zool. ofW. T. 191. 



Sp. Char. Bill very straight, slender, and conical ; shorter than the head. Tail con- 

 siderably shorter than the wings, which reach to its middle. Upper parts reddish-brown, 

 becoming brighter to the rnmp and tail : everywhere, except on the head and upper part 

 of the back, with transverse bars of dusky and of lighter. Scapulars and wing coverts 

 with spots of wdiite. Beneath, pale reddish-brown, ban-ed on the posterior half of the 



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body with dusky and whitish, and sjiotted with white more anteriorly ; outer web of pri- 

 maries similarly spotted with pale brownish-white. An Indistinct pale litre over the eye. 

 Length, about, 4.00; extent, .5.7.5 ; wing, 1.80 ; tail, 1.25. 



Hah. Nortli America ; California, in the mountains, south to Fort Tejon. 



Thi.s little Nortlierner spends the stnumer among the dense evergreen 

 forests of the higher mountains nortli of lat. 38°, deserting at that season 

 even the lowlands along the Columbia Elver for more elevated regions. 



Audubon states that he found several nests in the mountains of New 

 York and Pennsylvania, which were composed of moss, built into a half- 

 globular form against the lower part of a tree, with a hole in the side, look- 

 ing so much like the mossy knobs, common in such places, as easily to 

 escaj)e notice. The eggs were six, pale rosy-white, spotted with dark 

 red. The nest was lined witli rabl)it'.s fur and feathers of the grouse. 



Our bird does not come down to tlie coast, near San Franci.sco, even in 

 winter, but may no doubt be found tlien north of tlie Bay. Its haunts are 

 the dense woods, piles of logs and Ijru.sh, fences, etc., where it creeps about 

 like a mouse, rarely flying or inouiiting the trees. Its song is a rather long 



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