TROGLODYTES. 10? 



Family TROGLODYTID^E. 



Genus TROGLODYTES Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. ii. 

 1807, p. 52. 



Type : T. aedon Vieill. 



Troglodytes =rpu>y\o?v'Ti)s, one that creeps into holes; first applied to a 

 bird by Aetius about A.D. 550. From rpwy\ij=a hole, and dvot=I go into. 



Troglodytes troglodytes. WREN. 



Motacilla troglodytes Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 188 : 

 Sweden. 



Anorthura troglodytes (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. 



1881, p. 269. 

 Troglodytes parvulus Koch ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 29 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 115. 



Distribution in the British Islands. Resident and generally 

 distributed, except in the Shetland Islands and St. Kilda, 

 where it is represented by racial forms. A number of 

 visitors from the Continent occur, chiefly on the north and 

 east coasts, as Birds of Passage, and some may winter. 



General Distribution. The Wren inhabits Europe from 

 northern Scandinavia to the Urals and the shores of the 

 Mediterranean. Allied forms, in addition to those men- 

 tioned below, inhabit Iceland and the Faeroes, some Medi- 

 terranean islands, north-west Africa, and many parts of Asia 

 and North America. 



Troglodytes troglodytes hirtensis. 



ST. KILDA WEEN. 



Troglodytes hirtensis Seebohm, Zoologist, 1884, p. 333 : 

 St. Kilda. 



Troglodytes hirtensis Seebohm ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, 

 p. 115. 



