TROGLODYTID^— TROGLODYTIN^ : TRUE WRENS. 



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Length 3.90-4.10; extent 6.00- 

 aud claw together, about 1.12. 



78. 



25. 



79. 



80. 



shorter than the liead. Tail much shorter than the wings. 

 6.50; wing 1.75; tail 1.25; bill 0.40; tarsus, middle toe, 

 N. Am. at large, common, migratory, breed- 

 ing from New England and corresponding 

 latitudes northward, wintering in the U. S., 

 the strict rejjresentative t)f the European 

 wren. Nest of twigs, moss, lichens, hair, 

 feathers, etc., usually in a stump or log 

 close to the ground ; eggs 5-8, 0.65 X 0.48, 

 pure white, minutely dotted with reddish- 

 brown and purplish. A sly, secretive little 

 bird, less often seen than other ^v^ens no less 

 common ; voice strong and highly musical. 

 A. t. paci'ficus ? (Lat. pacifieus, pacific. Fig. 150. —Winter Wren, little reduced. (Baird'a 



peace-making; iJ«a^ and /acto; alluding to H^re of A. alascensls.) 



" the stilly sea. ") Western Winter Wren. Like the last ; darker, in lack of the 

 whitish specks of the upper parts, and whitish bars on outer webs of the primaries ; but 

 very slightly distinguished. Pacific Coast region. 



A. t. alascen'sis. (Of Alaska.) Alaskan Winter Wren. Like the common species in 

 form and coloration; larger; size of a house wren; wing 2.00-2.20; tail 1.50; tarsus 0.75; 

 tarsus, middle toe, and claw together 1.40; biU 0.65. Culmen, gape, and gonys almost per- 

 fectly straight, latter slightly ascending. Aleutian and Pribylov Islands, Alaska. Well dis- 

 tinguished from the c<Mnmon form, and nearer the Japanese A. fumigatus. 



TELMATO'DYTES. (Gr. reXfia, tehna, a swamp; dvTTjs, dutes, an inhabitant.) Marsh 

 Wrens. Small. Upper parts not uniform ; back streaked lengthwise with white in a black 

 patch ; fianks scarcely or not barred ; crown plain ; bill about two-thirds as long as head. 

 Eggs dark. 



T. palus'tris. (Lat. palustris, marshy ; palus, a marsh. Fig. 151.) Long-billed Marsh 

 Wren. Above clear brown, unbarred, the middle of the back with a large black patch sharply 



streaked with white (these white stripes sometimes de- 

 ficient). Crown of head usually darker than the back, 

 often quite blackish, and continuous with the black inter- 

 scapular patch. A dull white superciliary line. Wings 

 fuscous, the inner secondaries blackish on the outer webs, 

 often barred or indented with light brown. Tail evenly 

 0' barred with fuscous and the color of the back. Under 



^-^^^^ P*"^*^ white, usually quite pure on the belly and middle 



^^^^ line of the breast and throat, but much shaded with 



brown on the sides, flanks, and crissum. Bill blackish 

 above, pale below; feet brown. Length about 5.00; 

 extent 6.50; wing 1.75-2.00; tail about the same; bill 0.50 or more; tarsus 0.66-0.75. 

 Temperate N. Am. ; Greenland. Breeds throughout its range, and winters in the Southern 

 States ; an abundant bird, colonizing reedy swamps and marshes in large numbers, its great 

 globular nests of plaited rushes, with a hole in the side, being atfixed to the swaying herbage ; 

 eggs 6-10, 0.5S X 0.45, very dark-colored, being so thickly dotted with chocolate-brown as to 

 appear almost uniformly of this color. 



T. p. paludi'cola? (Lat. paludicola, a marsh-inhabiter; pahis and colo, I cultivate.) Tule 

 Marsh Wren. Scarcely recognizable as distinct; bill said to be shorter, and tail and its 

 coverts more distinctly barred. Pacific Coast. 



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Fig. 151. —Long-billed Marsh Wren, 

 nat. size. (Ad uat. del. E. C.) 



