554 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



2.25 (2.09), tail 1.85-2.12 (1.98), culraen .45-.55 (.49), bill 

 from nostril .30-.40 (.35), tarsus .60-.70 (.66). Eggs .64 

 X .48. Ilab. Western United States, east to Mississippi 

 Valley (Minnesota, Illinois, etc.), south over table-lands 

 of Mexico, as far as Vera Cruz. 

 (90.) 721rt. T, aedon parkmanii (Aud.). Parkman's Wren, 



rf' . Lower parts isabella-color, deeper on sides, the middle of the belly 

 whitish; otherwise much like T. aedon; length about 4.50, wing 

 1.95-2.10, tail 1.50-1.70, exposed culmen .50-.55, tarsus .70-.80. 

 Hab. Southern Mexico (Oaxaca, Yucatan, etc.) to Costa Eiea. 

 T. intermedius Cau. Central American House Wren.' 

 c'. A vcrj- distinct supei'ciliary stripe of buffy or ochraccous. 



rf'. Above umber-brown, barred, except on bead and neck, with darker; 

 lower pai'ts deep tawny buiT, deepest on throat and chest, paler 

 (sometimes nearly white) on middle of belly ; flanks and under 

 tail-coverts distinctly barred with duskj-, whitish, and tawny 

 buff. Young: '• Very similar to adult . . . but darker on the 

 upper surface and mottled underneath, the feathers of the 

 breast and sides edged and barred with blackish, jiroducing a 

 somewhat banded appearance; under tail-coverts nearly uni- 

 form rufous; throat and centre of breast and abdomen paler, 

 and . . . obscurely barred with dusky blackish." (Sharpe.) 

 Length about 4.25-4.50, wing 1.90-2.08 (2.01), tail 1.60-1.82 

 (1.75), exposed culmen .50-.52 (.51), tarsus .70-74 (.71). Jfnb. 

 Southeastern Mexico (Puebla, Orizaba, Oaxaca, etc.). 



T. brunneicoUis ScL. Tawny-throated Wren.' 

 (P. Darker and richer colored, the tail "dark rufous-brown, biirrcd 

 with black," the superciliary stripe and lower parts " deep 

 orange-rufous." Young : " Lighter and more rufescent, the 

 back barred with dusky blackish, the feathers of the head 

 havino- blackish margins;" lower parts "plentifully mottled, 

 all the feathers being margined with dusky blackish." Length 

 4.40, "culmen .55, wing 1.85, tail 1.50, tarsus .70." jrab. High- 

 lands of Guatemala. 



T. rufociliatus SnAHrE. Rufous-browed Wren.' 

 0°. Tail less than three-fourths as long as wing. (Nfst of moss, etc., lined with soft 

 feathers, built in crevices of dead logs or stumps, in thick coniferous woods. 

 Eggs 5-7, white or creamy white, finely but rather sparingly speckled with 

 reddish brown, sometimes nearly imniaculate), (Subgenus Anortlnira 

 Eennie.) 

 6'. Exposed culraen not more than .45 ; above deep brown, duller anteriorly, 



> Trnr/lndi/tei inlcrmedhiii Cab., Jour. fUr Orn, 1880, 407. 

 s Tm„lnd,,tr, hrunwirolHH Sci,., P. Z. S. 18.58. 207. 



s Trni/lotii/leii ru/uciliulu) Suakpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. ISSl, 202. (Described as a subsjipcics of T. bnin- 

 Icotlit.) 



