BIRDS — ^LIOTRICHIDAE — TKOGLODTTES PAEKMANNI. 



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TROGLODYTES AEDON, Vieillot. 



House Wren. 



Troglodytes aedon, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 52; pi. cvii, (type of genus.) — Ib. Nouv, Diet. XXXIV, 

 1819, 506.— BoNAP. Obs. Wilson, 1825, No. 136.— Rich. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 316.-AttD. 

 Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 427 : V, 1839, 470 ; pi. Lxx-viii -Is. Syn. 1839, 75.— Ib. Birds Amer. II, 

 1841, 125; pi. cx.x. 



Sylvia domestica, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 129 ; pi. viii. 



Troglodytes fulvus, Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 422 



Troglodytes farvus, Rich. List, 1837. (Not Motucilla furva , Gmelin.) 



Sp. Ch. — Tail and wings about equal. Bill shorter than the head. Above reddish brown, darker towards the head, brighter 

 on the rump. The feathers everywhere, except im tlie head and neck, barred with dusky ; obscurely so on the back, and still 

 less on the rump. All the tail feathers barred from the base ; the contrast more vivid on the exterior ones. Beneath pale 

 fulvous white, tinged with light brownish across the breast ; the posterior parts rather dark brown, obscurely banded. Under 

 tail coverts whitish, with dusky bars. An indistinct line over the eye, eyelids, and loral region, whitish. Cheeks brown, 

 streaked with whitish. Length, 4.90 ; wing, 2.08 ; tail, 2.00. 



Hob. — Eastern United States to the Missouri, or to the high central plains. 



The bill of this species, even from the extreme base, is shorter than the head. The wing is 

 very nearly equal to the tail, and reaches over its basal fourth. The tail is moderately graduated, 

 the lateral feather about .32 of an inch shorter than the middle. The outstretched feet reach 

 about to the end of the tail. 



There are a few whitish spots on the wing coverts. 



List of specimens. 



TROGLODYTES PARKMANNI, Aud. 



Parkmann's Wren. 



Troglodytes parkmanni, Ann. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 310, not figured.— Is. Syn. 1839, 76.— Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 

 133 ; pi. 123. 



Sp. Ch.— Similar in size and general appearance to T. aedon, with light line over the eye, &e ; the colors, however, grayer, 

 the upper parts dark brown, the lower grayish white, with little or none of the rufous tinge of particular regions, as seen in T. 

 aedon. 



Hob. — "Western America, from the high central plains and Upper Missouri, to the Pacific. 



All the specimens of the house wren type from the western regions appear to differ from eastern 

 ones in a grayer tinge of coloration, both above and below, the reddish brown of the rump and 



