TROGLODYTID^ — THE WRENS. 



149 



about 2.00 ; culmen very 



var. alasr.ensis. 



b, Anorthwa. 

 Tail very short ; only about two thirds the wing. 

 T. hyemalis. 



a. Size of cedon exeept (or shorter tail, wing- 

 straight. Hab. Aleutian Islands . 

 h. Much smaller than cedon, wing about 1.75. 



Pale reddish-brown ; dusky bars of upper parts with whitish spots or in- 

 terspaces. Hab. Eastern Province United States ; Cordova ? \ar. hy em alis . 



Dark rufous above and below ; upper parts with few or almost no 

 whitish spots. Hab. Pacific Province North America. \ar. pacificus. 



Troglodytes sedon, Vieill. 



HOUSE WREN; WOOD WREN. 



Troglodytes cedon, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 52, pi. cvii. — 1b. Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 

 1819, 506. — Baihd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 366 ; Rev. 138. — Sclater, Catal. 1861, 22, 

 no. 145. — Maynard, B. E. Mass. Hylemathrous cedon. Cab. Jour. 1860, 407. Sylvia 

 domestica, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 129, pi. vii. Troglodytes fulvus, Nutt. Man. 

 I, 1832, 422. .? Troglodytes americanus, AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 452 ; V, 1839, 469, 

 pi. clxxix. — Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, 123, pi. cxix. — Baiiiii, Birds N. Am. 1858, 368 ; 

 Rev. I, 141. 



Other figures : AuD. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, pi. Ixxxhi. — Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, pi. cxx. 



Sp. Char. 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 

 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 

 one. Beneath pale fulvous-white, tinged with light brownish across the breast ; the pos- 

 terior 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 Avith whitish. Length, 4.90 ; wing, 2.08 ; tail, 2.00. 



Hab. Eastern Province of the United States, from Atlantic to the Missouri River. 



In the Review of American Birds (p. 139), I have established a variety, 

 azteciis, to embrace specimens from Mexico paler than mdoti, and with a 

 brownish tinge on the breast, and smaller size. 



There can scarcely be any doubt that the T. americanus of Andubon is 

 nuthing more than this species in dark, accidentally soiled plumage (from 

 charcoal of burnt trees, etc.). 



Habits. The common House Wren is found 

 throughout the United States, from the Atlantic 

 to the Eocky Mountains, though it is not every- 

 where equally abundant. Thus, while in some 

 parts of Massachusetts it occurs in consider- 

 aljle numbers every year, in other portions not 

 twenty miles distant it is never seen. West of 

 the Eocky Mountains it is replaced by Park- 

 man's Wren, which is rather a race than a dis- 



Tros;lodytes cedon. 



