554 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



2.25 (2.09), tail 1.85-2.12 (1.98), culmen .45-.S5 (.49), bill 

 from nostril .30-.40 (.35), tarsus .60-.70 (.66). Eggs .64 

 X .48. Hab. Western United States, east to Mississippi 

 Valley (Minnesota, Illinois, etc.), south over table-lands 

 of Mexico, as far as Vera Cruz. 



721<2. T. aedon parkmanii (AuD.). Parkman's Wren. 



d*. Lower parts isabella-color, deeper on sides, the middle of the belly 



whitish; otherwise much like T. aedon; length about 4. 50, wing 



1.95-2.10, tail 1.50-1.70, exposed culmen .50-.55, tarsus .70-.80. 



Hab. Southern Mexico (Oaxaca, Yucatan, etc.) to Costa Rica. 



T. intermedius CAB. Central American House Wren. 1 

 c 2 . A very distinct superciliary stripe of buffy or ochraceous. 



d 1 . Above umber-brown, barred, except on head and neck, with darker ; 

 lower parts deep tawny buff, deepest on throat and chest, paler 

 (sometimes nearly white) on middle of belly ; flanks and under 

 tail-coverts distinctly barred with dusky, whitish, and tawny 

 buff. Young : " Very similar to adult . . . but darker on the 

 upper surface and mottled underneath, the feathers of the 

 breast and sides edged and barred with blackish, producing a 

 somewhat banded appearance; under tail-coverts nearly uni- 

 form rufous ; throat and centre of breast and abdomen paler, 

 and . . . obscurely barred with dusky blackish." (SHARPE.) 

 Length about 4.25-4.50, wing 1.90-2.08 (2.01), tail 1.60-1.82 

 (1.75), exposed culmen .50-.52 (.51), tarsus .70-.74 (.71). Hab. 

 Southeastern Mexico (Puebla, Orizaba, Oaxaca, etc.). 



T. brunneicollis SCL. Tawny-throated Wren.* 



d?. Darker and richer colored, the tail " dark rufous-brown, bai'red 

 with black," the superciliary stripe and lower parts " deep 

 orange-rufous." Young : " Lighter and more rufescent, the 

 back barred with dusky blackish, the feathers of the head 

 having blackish margins ;" lower parts " plentifully mottled, 

 all the feathers being margined with dusky blackish." Length 

 4.40, "culmen .55, wing 1.85, tail 1.50, tarsus .70." Hab. High- 

 lands of Guatemala. 



T. rufociliatus SHARPS. Rufous-browed Wren.* 



a 2 . Tail less than three-fourths as long as wing. (Nest of moss, etc., lined with soft 

 feathers, built in crevices of dead logs or stumps, in thick coniferous woods. 

 Eggs 5-7, white or creamy white, finely but rather sparingly speckled with 

 reddish brown, sometimes nearly immaculate). (Subgenus Anorthitra 

 EENNIE.) 

 b l . Exposed culmen not more than .45 ; above deep brown, duller anteriorly, 



l Troglodytei intermedium CAB., Jour, fiir Orn. 1860, 407. 

 Troglodyte* brvnneicollis SCL., P. Z. S. 1858, 297. 



> Troglodytet ru/ociliatu* SHABPE, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. 1881, 262. (Described as a subspecies of T. brun- 

 neieollii.) 



