550 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



middle and greater wing-coverts usually marked with small termi- 

 nal white spots; a broad rusty brown sti'ipe behind eye; lower 

 parts varying from dull white to deep tawny buff (the chin always 

 whitish) ; lower tail-coverts barred with dusky ; length 5.25-6.00, 

 wing 2.18-2.50 (2.35), tail 1.80-2.35 (2.09), exposed culmen .60-.70 

 (.64), tarsus .72-.8S (.81). Nest usually in woods. Eggs 3-6, .75 X 

 .58, white, pinkish white, creamy white, or pale pinkish cream-color, 

 thickly speckled, on or round larger end, with reddish brown. Hob. 

 Eastern United States, except southeastern Florida ; rare or local 

 north of about 40 ; west to edge of Great Plains ; south to Gulf 

 coast, including northeastern Mexico (Nuevo Leon and Tamauli- 



pas 1 ) 718. T. ludovicianus (LATH.). Carolina Wren. 



c*. Larger, and darker colored ; above deep chestnut, beneath deep tawny, 

 paler (more buffy) on belly and under tail-coverts ; superciliary 

 stripe buff; otherwise like T. ludovicianus; length about 5.80-6.50, 

 wing 2.45-2.75 (2.61), tail- 2.25-2.60 (2.43), exposed culmen .70-.80 

 (.78), tarsus .85-95 (.88). Hob. Southeastern Florida. 



718a. T. ludovicianus miamensis EIDGW. Florida Wren. 

 6 2 . Tail-feathers (except middle pair) chiefly plain blackish, the outer feathers 

 spotted and barred at tip with light grayish and dull whitish. (Middle 

 pair of tail-feathers grayish brown or brownish gray, barred or trans- 

 versely spotted with black or dusky.) (Subgenus Thryomanes SCLATER.) 

 c 1 . Tail decidedly shorter than wing. 



Above deep umber-brown (more grayish in worn plumage), the 

 middle tail-feathers grayer, barred or transversely spotted with 

 dusky ; superciliary stripe and streaks on side of neck white ; 

 lower parts brownish white, becoming more strongly tinged 

 with brownish posteriorly, especially on flanks ; length about 

 5.10-5.50, wing 2.30-2.40, tail 2.05-2.15, exposed culmen .65- 

 .68, tarsus .80. Hob. Yucatan, and adjacent portions of Gua- 

 temala and Mexico. 



T. albinucha (CABOT). Cabot's Wren. 2 



c*. Tail equal to or longer than wing. (Nest usually about buildings, 



except in unsettled districts. Eggs 5-7 rarely 9 pure white or 



pinkish white, finely, often very minutely, speckled or sprinkled 



on or round larger end with reddish brown and lilac-gray.) 



<P. Top of head, back, etc., deep umber-brown ; length 5.00-5.50, wing 



2.05-2.25 (2.14), tail 2.10-2.40 (2.21), exposed culmen .50-.55 



1 Specimens from northeastern Mexico constitute the T. berlandieri BAIRD, which will probably prove ten- 

 able as a race, the three specimens upon which the species was based, although in worn breeding plumage, being 

 much deeper rusty ochraceous beneath even than in winter specimens of T. ludovicianus, and also different in 

 some other characters. All Texan specimens, however, that I have seen, including several from the lower Rio 

 Grande (SENNKTT), are so like the ordinary northern birds that I am unable to appreciate any difference. 



* Troglodytes albinucha CABOT, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. 1847, 258. Thryothorus albtnucha BAIRD, Rev. 

 1864, 149; SALV. A GODM., Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i. 1S80, 94, pi. 7, fig. 2. 



