1114 Eeport of State Geologist. 



Subfamily TROGLODYTIN^. Wrens. 

 168. Gknus THRYOTHORUS Vieillot. 



(f*. Tail not longer than wings, its feathers all brown with fine black bars. 



Subgenus Thryothorus. T. ludovicianus (Lath.). 298 



a^. Tail longer than wings, its feathers mostly blackish, the middle one grayish, 



barred. Subgenus Thry-qmanes Sclater. T. bewickii (Aud.). 299 



Carolina Wren. 

 Subgenus Thryothorus. 



■298. (718). Thryothorus ludovicianus (Lath.). 



Carolina Wren. 

 Synonyms, Great Carolina Wren, Mocking Wren, Large Wood Wren. 



Exposed portion of the bill shorter than the head. Above, reddish- 

 brown, most vivid on the rump; a whitish streak over the eye, bor- 

 dered above with dark brown; throat, whitish; rest of under parts, 

 pale yellow-rusty, darkest toward the under tail-coverts, which are 

 conspicuously barred with black; exposed surface of wings and tail 

 (including the upper coverts), barred throughout with brown, the 

 outer edges of tail feathers and quills showing series of alternating 

 whitish and dusky spots; legs, flesh-colored. (B. B. and R.) 



Length, 5.25-6.00; wing, 3.18-2.50; tail, 1.80-3.35. 



Eange. — Northeastern Mexico and United States east of Plains; 

 north to Nebraska, southern Michigan, southern Ontario and Con- 

 necticut. Eesident throughout its ranoe. 



