33. TROGLODYTES. 249 



Troglodytes fulvus, Miff. Man. i. p. 422 (1832). 



Troglodytes americanus, Audub. Oni. Biof/r. ii. p. 4.52, pi. 179; Bp. 

 Comp. List B. Eur. ^- N. Anier. p. 11 ; Audub. B. Amer. ii. p. 12"?, 

 pi. 119; Bj}. Consp. i. -p. 222; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 3G8 ; id. 

 Beview Amer. B. p. 141. 



Troglodytes fui-vus, Gloc/er, J.f. O. 1864, p. 376 (nee Gtn.). 



Hyleniathroiirf aedon, Cab. J.f. O. 18G0, p. 407. 



Hylemathrous americauus, Cab. J.f. O. 1860, p. 407. 



Troglodytes doniestica, Coues, Pr. Phi/ad. Acad. 1875, p. 351 *. 



Adah. General colour umber-brown, slightly mottled witb dusky 

 centres to the feathers of the head, and with obsolete bars of dusky 

 brown on the back and scapulars ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts more rafous-brown, barred with dusky brown on the 

 upper tail-coverts, the rump varied with half-concealed spots of 

 silky white ; wing-coverts like the back, crossed with obsolete 

 dusky bars, the median series having a triangular white spot edged 

 with black near the tip, and an indistinct whitish shaft-line ; quills 

 dark brown, chequered on the outer M'eb with rufous-brown notches 

 and darker brown bars, more distinct on the secondaries, the inner- 

 most of which are barred across ; centre tail-feathers rufous-brown, 

 barred across with blackish, with lighter rufous sj)ots at the edge of 

 the lighter bars, the remainder of the feathers dusky brown on the 

 inner web, the blackish bars indistinct and incomplete, the outer 

 webs barred with nifous-brown and black, the external feather 

 with a lighter conterminous bar along the black one ; lores dull 

 whitish ; eyelid whity brown ; ear- coverts dusky, minutely streaked 

 with small spots of dull whitish, the upper edge slightly washed 

 with rufous-brown ; a faint eyebrow of dull whitish ; feathers below 

 the eye dusky brown ; cheeks also whitish, slightly mottled with 

 narrow brown margins ; under surface of body ashy brown, slightly 

 mottled on the fore neck and breast with faint cross bars of brown, 

 before which is an obsolete paler band of whitish ; centre of abdomen 

 white ; sides of body clear brown, mottled with a few bars of dusky 

 blackish, these bars more distinct on the lower flanks, which are 

 more rufesccnt ; under tail-coverts white, barred with black, the 

 black bars with a conterminous bar of rufous-brown ; thighs light 

 brown ; under wing-coverts white, slightly mottled with dusky 

 bases to the feathers, the axillaries shaded with brown ; quills 

 dusky brown, ashy along the edge of the inner web, with a few pale 

 notches on the outer web : " bill dark brown above, yellowish 

 brown beneath ; feet flesh-colour ; iris hazel '' (Andabon). Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-0.5, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-6.5. 



The House- Wren inhabits the Eastern province of the United 

 States, from the Atlantic to the llocky Mountains. 



a. b. Ad. st. North America. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Toronto, Canada (J. Tfliifeli/). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



d. S ad. sk. Havre de Grace, IMarvland Smithsoniiin Institution 



{Kumlien S,- Bean)'. [P.], 



* In the ' Birds of the Colorado Valley ' the whole synonym j of T. donusficus 

 and T. parlmanni is given by Dr. Cones, whose work I have been much indebted 

 to in compiling my own synonymy. Tlie student will And a mass of local 

 references, which it is not possible to reproduce in a work like the jsresent. 



