276 TIMELIID.i;. 



Troglodytes parvulus, var. hiemalis, Midgio. Bull. Essex Inst. v. 



p. 18(3 ; Baird, Breiuer, ^ Ridyiv. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 155, 



pi. 9. figs. 9, 10. 

 Anortliura troglodytes hyemalis, Coves, B. Color. Vail. p. 170 ; Itidgw. 



Bidl. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 15 (1881). 



Adult. General colour above rufous, tho head a little browner, 

 the mantle and scapulars with half-concealed small spots of white, 

 larger and more in the form of streaks on the rump ; all these white 

 spots heightened by conterminous dusky bars ; wing-coverts rufous 

 barred with dusky, and having small spots of white near the tips of 

 the feathers; quills dusky blackish, externally rufous barred with 

 dusky, the primaries very distinctly chequered with black bars and 

 fulvous notches ; upper tail- coverts and tail-feathers rufous with 

 narrow dusky cross bars, about twelve in number on the centre 

 feathers ; lores and a tolerabljr well-marked eyebrow, as well as the 

 feathers round the eye, whity brown ; ear-coverts whity brown tinged 

 with rufous, the feathers mottled with dusky-brown edges, the upper 

 margin of the ear-coverts rufous-brown ; on the sides of the neck a 

 few whity -brown spots ; cheeks whity brown with a tinge of rufous ; 

 throat ashy whitish with a tinge of rufous ; fore neck and breast 

 pale rufous-brown, with obsolete pale whity-brown centres to the 

 feathers, the lower breast with a few small spots of dusky blackish; 

 the flauks and abdomen more reddish brown, barred with blackish 

 and white, producing a dusky appearance ; under tail-coverts rufous, 

 very conspicuously barred with blackish and having a very broad 

 subterminal white bar : under wing- coverts and axillaries dull 

 whitish, with a very faint tinge of brown, and having tin}' narrow 

 dusky bars, more distinct near the edge of the wing ; quills dusky 

 brown below, ashy whitish along the margin of the inner web ; 

 " bill dusky brown, the basal edges of the upper and two thirds of 

 the lower mandible paler ; tarsi and toes pale greenish brown, as are 

 the claws ; iris brown " (Audubon). Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 1-75, tail 1*2, tarsus 0-7. 



The Winter Wren is found over the whole of North America, with 

 the exception of the Paciiic coast. 



«. Ad. sk. Toronto, Canada R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 



(/. Whitely). 

 b. 2 fid. sk. Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution [P.]. 



7. Anorthura fumigata. (Plate XVI. fig. 2.) 



Troglodvtes fiimigatiis, Tcmm. 3Ian. dOrn. iii. p. 161 ; Bp. Consp' 

 1. p. 222 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 188, no. 2564 ; Sivinh. P. Z. S- 

 1871, p. 351 ; 'Dybows/^. J. f. 0. 1872, p. 263; Sicinh. Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 1 52 ; id. Ibis, 1875, p. 143 { Uybvwsk. J. f. O. 1874, p. 334 ; Prjev. 

 in Dawson Bowlei/s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 167 ; Tacs. Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 Fratice, ii. pp. 135, 137; David ^ Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 225; 

 Blakist. Sf Fryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 2.38; Seebohm,Ibis, 1879, p. 37. 



Troglodytes vulgaris, Tcmm. i^ Schl. Favn. Japan., Ares, p. L9. 



Anorthura fumigatus, Coues, B. Color. Vull. p. 178. 



Adult male. General colour above dark rufous-brown, slightly 



