422 ornithology. 



Thryomanes bewicki. 



Bcu'ick's Wren. 



y. S2)ilHnis. 



Troglodytes spilurus, Vigors, Zool. Beechey's Yoy., 1839, 18, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



Thryothorus sjtilurus. CooPEB, Om. Cal., 1870, G9. 



Tkryothorus hcickld var. spihirus, Baied, Review, 18G4, 12G.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. 

 Am. B., I, 1874, 147, pi. IX, fig. 4.— CouES, Key, 187:i, 80; Check List, 1873, 

 No. 48b. 



Thryothorus hewielci. c. spilurus, CoUES, B. N.W., 1874, 3L 



Thryothorus bewieUi, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 363 (part). 



The "Long-tailed House Wren," or Bewick's Wren, was observed 

 frequently at Sacramento, where, as in certain portions of the Ea.st, it fre- 

 quented the out-houses in the city, in company with the Barn Swallow and 

 Black Pewee. After leaving there, we nowhere identified it with certainty, 

 although a single individual of what seemed to be this species was noticed at 

 Grlendale, Nevada, in November, 1867. The specimen in question was seen 

 among the willows bordering the river, and disappeared before we could 

 decide whether it was this species or the Wood Wren (Troglodytes xmrk- 

 manni). 



Troulodytes aedon. 



House Wr<'ii; Wooil Wroii. 



/?. parkmanni — Parkman's Wren. 



Troglodytes parkmanni, AUD., Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 310.— Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 



307; Cut. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 271; Review, 1804. 140.— CoorER.Oru.Cal., 



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 Troglodytes aedon var. parhnanni, CouES, Key, 1872, 87 ; Check List, 1873, No. 49a ; 



B. N.W., 1874, 32.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am., 1, 1874, 153.— Henshaw, 1875, 



184. 



I'he range of this Wren is apparently co-extensive with the distribution 

 of the timber, or governed strictly by the presence or absence of trees, 

 without special regard to their kind. Its vertical range, like that of the 

 Robin, Louisiana Tanager, and many other species, was consequently very 

 considerable, it being equally abundant among the cotton-woods of the river- 



