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horn color. Another killed at the same locality: length, 5^; extent, 7; bill, .75. These 

 measurements show a considerable difiference in the size of different individuals. I found the 

 young of the year capable of flight by the middle of July. — S. 



TROGLODYTES PARKMANNI, Aud. 



Parkmann's Wren. 



Troglodytes parkmanni, AuD. Cm. Biog. V, 1839, 310, not figured. — Ib. Syn. 1839, 76. — Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 

 133; pi. 122.— Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 367. 



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

 the upper parts dark brown, the lower grayish white, with little or none of the rufous tinge of particular regions. Tail and 

 wings about equal. Bill shorter than the head. Above brown, darker towards the head, brighter on the rump. The 

 feathers everywhere, except on the 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 Under tail coverts whitish with 

 dusky bars. An indistinct line over the eye, eyelids, and loral regions, whitish. Cheeks brown, streaked with whitish. 



Ilab. — Western Americi, from the high central plains and Upper Missouri, to the Pacific. 



"Parkmann's wren'" of Audubon is common about Puget Sound, where it seems to take the 

 place of the house wren, though less familiar. Its habits and song are very similar, but it 

 seems to frequent only the vicinity of woods and pibs of logs, not seeking a dwelling about 

 buildings. It arrives about April 20. 



I noticed wrens at Vancouver in June, 1853, which I took for the Jiovse wren, though the 

 song struck me as different. One built in a horse's skull stuck upon a fence. I am uncertain 

 whether they were not the above species, which may entirely replace the house wren in the 

 Territory.— C. 



I obtained several specimens of this bird at Fort Steilacoom; the birds differed so in meas- 

 urements, that, when collected, I was frequently in doubt whether they were identical in 

 sjDecics 



The voice of this species is harsh and unmusical. — S. 



TROGLODYTES HYEMALIS, Vie ill ot. 



winter Wren. 



Sylvia troglodytes, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 139 ; pi. viii, fig 6. 



Troglodytes hymalis, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1819, 514.— Bonap. List. 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 222.— 



Sw. F. B Am. 111,813. 318. — Atin. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 430 ; pi. 360. — Ib. Syn. 1839,76. — 



Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, 128 ; pi. 121 —Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 369. 



Troglodytes europaeus, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825; No. 137 — Nuttall, Man. 1, 1832, 427. 



Sp. Ch. — Bill very straight, slender, and comical ; shorter than the head. Tail considerably shorter than the wings, which 



reach to its middle. Upper parts reddish brown, becoming brighter to the rump and tail ; everywhere, except on the head 



and upper part of the back, with transverse bars of dusky and of lighter. Scapulars and wing coverts with spots of 



white. Beneath pale reddish brown, barred on the posterior half of the body with dusky and whitish, and spotted with 



