270 TIMELI1DJ3. 



Le Troglodyte, Tiilgairement et proprement le Roitelet, Monih. Hist. 



JVat. V. p. 3o2, pi. 1(3. fig. 1. 

 Wreu, P('i»i. Brit. Zool. ii. p. 268 ; Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. .506. 

 Troglodytes europpeus, fieill. N. Diet. (THist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 511; 



Leach, >Si/st. Cat. Mamm. etc. Brit. Mus. p. 25 ; Gould, B. Eur. 



Ii. pi. 130; Bli/th, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. loS; Bj). Consp. i. 



p. 221 ; KjfFrh. Orn. Dnn. pi. xxiv. fig. 5; Bailly, Orn. Saroie, ii. 



p. 457 ; *SW(/. Toy. Xcderl. pi. 65 ; Sundev. >Sv. L'of/l. pi. xv. fig. 3 : 



JrtH&. e^ Barth.-Lapomm. p. 269; *S'c/(7. TJ/er. Ncderl. pi. 6. fig. 9; 



Baed. Bier curop. Vdy. pi. 43. fig. 1 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. ii. pi. 63 ; 



Filipjn, Tiayr/. I'ers. p. 340; Bettoni, Ucc. nidif. Lotiib. i. tav. 49; 



Loehe, E.vpl. Sci.Ak/er., Ois. i. p. 2!i0; Fritsch, Vog.Eiir. tab. 22. 



figs. 17, 18 ; Ketd. Onze Voe/. i. pi. 19. 

 Troglodytes punctatus, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 551 ; C. L. Brehm, Lehrh. 



Nature/, euroji. Vog. p. 318. 

 Troglodytes parvulus, Koch, Syst. haier. Zool. i. p. 161 ; Kaum. Vog. 



Dmtschl. iii. p. 725, Taf. 83. fig. 4 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 158 ; Cab. 



Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 77 ; Linderm. Toy. Griechcnl. p. 75 ; Tristr. 



His, 1866, p. 284; Bcgl. S,- Gerhe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 649; Boderl. 



Avif. Sicil. p. 135 ; Erode, Vogelw. Borkum, p. 91 ; Gray, Iland-l. 



B. 1. p. 188, no. 2562 ; Scdvad. Ucc. Born. p. 74 ; Ne^vt. ed. Yarr. 



Br. B. p. 460 ; Hartinei, Handb. Brit. B. p. 19 ; Eresser, B. Eur. 



pt. 23; Irby, B. Gibr.' \x 99; Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 222; Tacz. 



Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 139. 

 Troglodj'tes vulgaris, Fleming, Brit. An. p. 73; Temm. Man. d'Orn. 



iii. p. '160. 

 Troglodytes regulus, Meyer, Zusatze Sfc, Taschetib. deutschl. Vog. 



p. 96 (1822). 

 Troglodytes domesticiis, Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1284 {nee Bartr.) ; id. 



Vcig. Deutschl. p. 451. 

 Troglodytes sylvestris, Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1284 ; id. Vog. Deutschl. 



p. 455, pi. xxiii. fig. 6. 

 Anorthura coniuiimis, Rennie, Montagues Orn. Diet. 2nd ed. p. 670. 

 Troglodytes communis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 51 ; Heivits. Eggs 



Brit. B. i. p. 244, pi. 62. fig. 2 ; G. B. Gray, List Br. B. p. 40 ; 



B. Gray, B. West Scotl. p. 194 ; Saxby, B. S'hetl. p. 142. 

 Auothura troglodytes, Macy. Br. B. iii. p. 15, fig. 188. 

 Troglodytes troglodytes, Schlcyel, Bev. Crit. p. xliv. 

 Troglodytes tenuirostris, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 238, 

 Troglodytes naumaimi, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 238. 

 Troglodytes verus, Burm. Syst. Uebers. iii. p. 137. 



Adult. General colour above rufous-brown, the head and neck 

 uniform, but the niautlc and entire back barred with dusky blackish, 

 the rump varied with a few half-concealed spot.s of white, and indi- 

 cations of similar spots on the scapulars ; wing-coveits like the 

 mantle, and barred with dusky blackish, the median scries with a 

 tiny white spot at the tip; greater coverts rufous-brown, with 

 distinct narrow cross lines of black ; quiUs dusky brown, externally 

 rufous barred w'ith black, the primaries chequered with whitish 

 notches on the outer web ; tail-feathers rufous, regularly barred 

 across with black, about eleven bars being visible on the centre 

 feathers ; lores and a distinct eyebrow dull white, waslied with 

 brown : eyelid dull white ; sides of face and ear-coverts light brown, 

 streaked with darker brown, the upper edge of the ear-coverts dark 



