37. AxoRinrRA. 275 



notches ; tail feathers deep rufous, banded with black, about eleven 

 bars being discernible on the centre tail-feathers ; lores and a tolerably 

 di>.tinct eyebrow pale fulvous brown, ear-coverts fulvous brown, 

 mottled with dusky edgings and whitish shaft-lines to the feathers, 

 the upper margin of the ear-coverts dark brown ; cheeks and throat 

 rufous-brown, the sides of the body umber-brown ; the lower flanks 

 barred with black, and more narrowly with white, the lower abdomen 

 broadly barred with white and with distinct black bars, this portion 

 of the body appearing lighter in contrast to the flanks ; thighs 

 rufous barred with black ; under tail-coverts rufous, barred with 

 black and tipped with white, before which is a broad black bar ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts pale fulvous brown, obscurely 

 barred with dusky, a little more distinctly on the latter ; quills dusky 

 brown, more ashy along the margin of the inner web : " iris brown." 

 Total length 3-6 inches, culmeu 0-55, wing 1-8, tail r2, tarsus 0-75. 

 Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but a little more mottled 

 on the breast with pale nearly obsolete spots of buffy whitish. Total 

 length 3-.5 inches, culmen 0-5.5, wing 1-8, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-7. 



Young. Browner than the adults, with scarcely any shade of rufous 

 on the wings and tail, which are more coarselj' barred than in the 

 old birds ; scapulars rather distinctly barred with blackish ; the 

 throat and centre of abdomen whity brown ; the breast and sides of 

 the body umber-brown, with a few dusky spots and bars on the 

 under surface, but no sign of the strouglj'-marked cross bars which 

 distinguish the adults. 



The Pacific Wren inhabits the Pacific coast of the United States, 

 from Washington Territory and Vancouver Island to the north of 

 San Francisco Bay. It appears to me to be more nearly allied to 

 A. alascensis and A. funihjata than to A. troglodytes and A. hiemalis. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Vancouver Island, Jime 4. A. Forrer [C.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Vancouver Island, Nov. 27. A. Forrer [C.]. 



c. Pull. sk. Vancouver Island, June 24, A. Forrer [C.]. 



G. Anorthura Meinalis. 



Sylvia troglodytes, Wilson, Anur. Orn. i. p. 1.30, pi. viii. fig. 6. 

 Troglodj-tes hiemalis {nee L.), Vieill. X. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 



p. 514. 

 Troglodytes europreus, Bp. Journ. I'hilad. Acad. iv. p. 188 (nee V.). 

 Troglodytes liyemalis, Aiuhih. B. Anur. yd. ccclx. ; Stc. Faun. Bor.- 



Amer., Birds, p. .'US; Audub. Orn. Biog.'w. p. 4."'0; Bp. Comp. 



List B. Bur. ^- X. Amer. p. 11 ; Audub. B. Amer. 8vo, ii. p. 128, 



pi. 121 ; Nutt. Man. 1840, p. 481 ; Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 1-58; Bp. 



Vonsp. i. p. 222 ; Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 2-3 ; Baird, Bei-tew 



Amer. B. p. 14.5 ; Dresser, Ibis, 18(j.5, p. 48.5 ; Maynard, B. Florida, 



p. 40 : Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 180, no. 2-500. 

 Troglodytes (Anorthura) hyenialis, Baird in B. N. Amer. p. .360. 

 Anorthura hyenialis, Cones ^- Prenf. Smit/is. Rep. 1801-02, p. 410*. 

 Anorthura troglodvtes, var. hiemalis, Coues, Key N.-Amer. B. p. 8", 



fig. :30 ; id. B. X.- West, p. .33. 



* For further local references and complete synonymy, see Coues, B. Color. 

 Vail. p. 176. 



