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Key to the Species. 



1. Eyebrow iudistiuct, light ashy brown or pale 

 fulvous. 

 a'. Under tail-coverts distinctly barred across 

 with black and tipped with white. 

 a". Throat and centre of"breast whitish ; chest 

 asliy brown ; general colour lipht brown, 

 witli distinct cross bars on the back from 

 the mantle downwards; under surface ^ aomestims &nd. 



, „ J. ■■•■•■■■■■■ ■■• ■••••• ■ • ■ ; ] allies, p. 248. 



b . Ihroat and centre of breast light brown. ' ' ^ 



a'". General colour more rufescent ; no 



bars on the flanks of the adult bird . . intermedins, p. 252. 

 b'". General colour lighter brown, especi- 

 ally below ; flanks in the adult bird 



with narrow but distinct bars striatulus, p. 254. 



b'. Under tail-coverts tawny rufous, occasionally 



tipped with white and having subterminal 



spots or bars, the latter never complete as 



in section a ; flanks uniform. 



c". Upper surface uniform brown generally. 



e'". Flanks and under tail-coverts bright 



tawny and uniform ; breast also warm 



tawny musctiliis, p. 255. 



d'". Much paler than the foregoing, more 

 isabelline below ; under tail-coverts 

 like the flanks, a little deeper in colour hornensis, p. 257. 

 d". Upper surface barred with dusky. 



e'". Throat white, as well as the centre of 



the body ; breast light brown rufiihis, p. 258. 



f". Throat pale vinous isabelline, like the 



rest of the under surface tessellatus, p. 259. 



b. Eyebrow very distinct indeed, and of a deep 

 tawny colour like the sides of the face and 

 throat. 



,, r , 1 jn 1 ■/■ \sohtitialis,x>.2Q0. 



e". Lower back and flanks uniform < /• . '.^^.i 



f rater, IX 261. 



/.„ , •■ , ] n 1 IV 1 \ hrunneicoUis, p. 261. 



f . Lower back and flanks numerously barred < j: -i- t ^ m-o 



•' - I riijuciUatus, p. 2biJ. 



1. Troglodytes domesticus. 



Motacilla domestica, Sartr. Trav. Florida, 1st. Amor. ed. vol. i. 



p. 291 (1791). 

 Troglodytes aedon, Vieill. Ois. Amer. i. p. 52, pi. 107 ; id. N. Diet. 



d'JIisi. Kaf. xxxiv. p. 506; Audub. B. Amer. pi. 83; id. Orn. 



Bioc/r. i. p. 427, y. p. 470 ; Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. Sj- N. Amer. 



p. 11 ; Aiid/ib. B. Amer. 8vo, ii. p. 125, pi. 120 ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. 



p. 158 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 222 ; Baird, in Birds N'. Amer. p. 367 ; 



Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 23 ; Baird, Beview Amer. B. p. 138 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. ^. i. p. 191, no. 2611 ; Coues, Keti N. Amer. B. 



p. 80 ; Maijnard, B. Florida, 1873, p. 39 ; Sel. ^ Salv. No^nenvl. 

 Av. Neotr. p. 7 ; Cones, B. K.-JVest, p. 32; Baird, Breicer, ^ 

 Bidf/u: Hist. N. Amer. B. p. 149, pi. 9. fig. 5 ; Salv. li)- Godm. 

 Biol. Ceiitr.-Amer., Ares, i. p. 98. 

 Sylvia domestica, Wils. Amer. Ont. vol. i. p. 129, pi. 8. fig. 3; Bp. 

 Journ. Aead. N. Sci. Philad. iv. p. 187 (1824). 



