TR( KiLODYTID.K — THE WRENS. 



149 



a I (I .s c e ti >• ! s" . 



h. Aiiorthnra. 



Tail vorv short : on'v alxmt two thirds the wing. 

 T. hyemalis. 

 '/. Si/.f i>[' ,1,/,,/, i-x.-.'pt for .sliortcr tail, winir ulumt 2.1)0; j'liliueu very 



stnii<j;lit. //ah. Aleutian I.>laii<ls ^ 



/'. Much sMialltT than o'dint, wing about 1.75. 



Pale r.'ddish-hrown : dusky bars of upper part.^ witli wliitisli spots or iii- 

 terspaee^*. Ilah. Eastern I rovince United States ; Cordova ? var. h y e m a I i s- . 



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

 whitish spots. Hub. I'aeilie Province North AuK'rica. \in: j>u c i/i c " s. 



Troglod3rtes sedon, Vieill. 



HOUSE WBEK; WOOD WBEH. 



Tr,>iil,„h,i.s ,n}n,i, ViKiM.. (>is. Aui. Sept. II, 1807, 5-2, pi. cvii. — 1r. Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 

 1M'.». "»(•(;. r.AiiM., iJir.ls N. Am. 1858, btJG ; Kev. i:J8. — S. l.vteu, C'utal. 18tjl, 22, 

 iin. 14'.. Mavnaiu., I'>. K. Mass. lliikiaathroas ccdon, <'ab. Jour. IStiO, 4n7. Syli'ui 

 dnnusliai, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 12t», pi. vii. Troylodtjtrs fnlvus, NuTT. Man. 

 I, 1>:{2, 422. ' Trn,fI.../!/frso,iuri<-'niu.s, Aru. Orn. Biog. II, 18:J4, 4;>2 ; V, 1839, 46l», 

 1.1. .ixxix. - in. Uirds Am. II, 1841, 123, pi. txi-v, — Haikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 368 ; 

 lUv. 1, 141. 



Other figures : An.. Orn. I'.iog. 1, 1831, pi. Lxx.viii. — Ib. Buds Am. II, 1841, pi. c.xx. 



Sp. Chah. Tail and wings about erpial. Pill shorter than the head. Above reddisli- 

 brown. darker towards the hea<l, bright«-r on the rump. The feathers everywhere, except 

 on the head and neck, barred with dusky: obscurely .<o 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. B»'neath pale fulvous-white, tin,ue«l with light brownish rcross the breast; the ])0s- 

 terior parts rather dark brown, obscurely banded. Fiider tail-coverts whitish, wnth du.sky 

 burs. An indistinct line over the eye. eyelids, and loral region, whitish. Cheeks brown, 

 streaked with whitish. Length, 4.00 ; wing. 'J.ilS: tail. 2.00. 



IIab. Eastern Province of the Cnited States, from Atlantic to the Missouri River. 



In the Iieview of American P>irils y\K l.*>9), I Imve esta])lislied a variety, 

 aztrnfs, to enil»i-.ice si)eciniens from Mexico })aler than arlon, and with a 

 brownish tinge on the brea.st, and smaller size. 



There can scarcely be any doubt that the 7\ nnnr'naan^i of Andnbon is 

 nothing more than this s])ecies in dark, accidentally soiled jdnmage (from 

 charcoal of burnt trees, etc.V 



Habits. Tlie connnon House Wren is found 

 throughout the United States, from the Atlantii- 

 to the Jiockv Mountahis, though it is not everv- 

 where etiually abundant. Thus, Avhile in some 

 parts of Massachusetts it occurs in consider- 

 able n umbel's every year, in other ]M»rtions not 

 twenty miles distant it is never .seen. West oi' 

 the Kocky Mountains it is rei)lacetl bv Park- 

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



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