138 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
A. Tail and wings about equal. 
a. Beneath grayish-white. Crissum and flanks dis- 
tinctly barred. Wing coverts spotted with whit- 
ish. Dark bars of tail about half the width of 
their interspaces. 
First primary nearly half the longest. Color 
above dark-brown, rufous towards tail . adon. 
Wing similar. Above paler brown : - e@don, var. aztecus. 
First primary half the second. Above paler 
brown . . . . . + parkmanni. 
Somewhat similar to edon, but darken Sides 
of head dark, without obscure superciliary 
streak 2 2 - : - . americanus. 
6. Beneath all over yellowish-brown. Crissum band. 
ed; flanks indistinctly so or not at all. Wing 
coverts not spotted. Dark bars of tail more 
numerous, about equal to their light inter- 
spaces. Inside of wings plain.! 
First primary little more than half the second. 
Beneath darker fulvous. Bars of flanks in- 
appreciable ‘5 2 = . - intermedius. 
First primary more than half the longest. 
Beneath pale fulvous. Flanks quite dis- 
tinctly barred . - 5 : x - inquietus. 
ec. Throat and breast dark yellowish-brown, con- 
trasting with the whitish belly and strongly 
barred flanks. Inside of wings banded. Bars 
on tail one-fourth their interspaces. Wing 
coverts spotted, and scapulars banded with 
whitish . “ : : - ° f - brunneicollis. 
B. Tail very short; only about two-thirds the wing. 
a. Pale reddish-brown; dusky bars of upper parts 
with whitish spots or interspaces . : - hyemalis. 
b. Dark rufous above and below; upper parts with 
few or almost no whitish spots : ‘ . hyemalis, var. 
pacificus. 
a. TROGLODYTES. 
Troglodytes wdon. 
Troglodytes xdon, Viettu. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 52, pl. evii.—Is. 
Nouv. Dict. XXXIV, 1819, 506.—Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 366.— 
Sciater, Catal. 1861, 22, no. 145.—Hylemathrous edon, Cab. Jour. 
1860, 407. 
1 The South American species resemble those mentioned in this division ; 
but beneath are either banded slightly on the crissum only, or not at all even 
there. 
