/■I TEOGLODYIIDJi;. 



5. Rio Janeiro, Brazil (Kehrkorn Coll.). C'l-owley PJequest. 

 ]. Brazil {Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



3. Brazil. W. Ra'dclirte Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 5. Argentine Republic, Oct. A. II. Holland, Esq. [C.]. 



Troglodytes hornensis, Less. 



Troglodytes magellanicus, Bridges, P. Z. S. 1843, p. Ill; James, Neio 



List Chilian Birds, p. 1 (1892). 

 Troglodytes hornensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 257 (1881) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 47 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 88 



(1903). 



The eggs of the Pale House- Wren, though in general resembling 

 those of T. domesticus, are subject to more variation. They are 

 pinkish white, marked with red and pale underlying lavender. 

 The markings consist of specks, spots, and tiny blotches, and while 

 in some specimens the ground-colour is almost entirely concealed 

 by them, in others more than half the ground remains visible. 

 The markings frequently form a dark zone or cap at the large end 

 of the egg. Examples measure from "S-l to -7 in length, and from 

 •48 to "SS in breadth. 



Genus ANORTHURA, Bamie. 



Anorthura troglodytes (Linn.). 



Troglodytes parvulus, Thien. Fortpjlans. ges. Voy. tab. xii. figs. 12, a, b 

 (1840-54) ; Fischer, J.f. 0. 1861, p. 14, tab. i. fig. 2 ; Dresser, Birds 

 Fur. iii. p. 219 (1873) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 505, pi. 11 (1883) ; 

 Irby, Orn. Str. Gibr. 2nd ed. p. 75 (1895) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. 

 Birds, p. 216, pi. 54. fig. 2 (189G). 



Troglodytes europceus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 43. fig. 1 (1855-68). 



Anorthura vulgaris, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 244, pi. Ixii. 

 fig. iii (1856). 



Anorthura troglodytes, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 269 (1881) : id. 

 lland-l. iv. p. 91 (1903). 



The eggs of the Common Wren are typically of a regular oval 

 shape, but many are more or less spheroidal. The ground-colour 

 is white, and this is sprinkled with minute specks of reddish brown, 

 sometimes evenly distributed over the entire shell, but more often 

 thicker towards the larger end. In some specimens, however, the 

 markings are laiger, and these are often set over the broad end of 

 the egg only ; in others the specks arc so minute and few in number 



