274 ttmeliidj:. 



remains of a small obsolete white spot at the tips ; quills dusky- 

 brown, externally rufous-brown barred with duskv, the primaries 

 chequered with spots of rufons-butf or butty whitish ; u])per tail- 

 coverts clearer rufous, with obsolete bars of dusky blackish ; tail- 

 feathers nifous-brown. margined with clearer rufous, especially on 

 the out^r feathers, which incline to bufl'y whitish ; all the feathers 

 barred across with dusky blackish, about eleven bars being percep- 

 tible on the inner webs; lores and a narrow eyebrow pale sandy 

 whitish, the latter slightly mottled with dusky tips to the feathers ; 

 sides of face also sandy whitish or light fulvous, the ear-coverts 

 mottled with brown edges to the feathers and appearing somewhat 

 streaked, the upper edge of these ear-coverts dark brown ; throat and 

 breast uniform sandy brown, with a few indications of obsolete 

 whitish spots on the latter ; the flanks rufous-brown, thickly mottled 

 with blackish and white bars, the latter predominating on the abdo- 

 men, which is consequently paler and rather more ashy ; under tail- 

 coverts rufous-brown, broadly tipped with white, before Avhich is 

 a distinct subterminal bar of black, all the feathers being also barred 

 with blackish ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries light fulvous 

 brown, with a few obsolete indications of dusky bars ; the edge of 

 the wing rather more ashy, the feathers tipped with white ; quills 

 light brown below, pale ashy along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-6.5, wing 2-1, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-75. 



Young. More dusky than the adults and greyer on the throat, 

 the breast mottled with pale whitish centres to the feathers. (Mas. 

 iSalvin and Godman.) 



The Alaska Wren is confined to the Aleutian and Pribylow 

 islands and Alaska. 



a. c? ad. sk. Amaknak Island, Uanalashka, Smithsonian Institution 

 Oct. 21, 1871 ( W. H. Ball). [P.]. 



5. Anorthura pacifica. (Plate XYI. fig. 1.) 



Troglodytes hyemalis {nee JVils.), Coop. ^- Sudd. P. It. Rep. xii. I860, 



p. 191 ; Cooper, Orn. Calif, p. 73. 

 Troglodytes hyemalis, var. pacificus, Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 145. 

 Anorthura troglodytes paciticus, Rulgtv. Bidl. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, 



p. 15 (1881): 



Adult viale. General colour above dark rufous-brown, inclining 

 to dusky brown on the head and mantle, the lower part of the latter 

 with obscure blackish bars, which become more apparent on the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the latter being more 

 rufous ; on the rump some half-concealed spots of white ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts dusky brown, margined with fulvous brown, 

 with a white spot at the tips of the latter series ; greater coverts 

 externally rufous-brown, notched with black, which imparts a 

 spotted appearance to this part of the wing, a few of the feathers 

 having also slight indications of tiny white spots near the tips ; 

 quills duskj' brown, externally deep rufous, and notched with 

 blackish spots, the primaries externally chequered with pale fulvous 



