164 SYNONYMY AND CHARACTERS OF CANON WREN 



Canon Wren 



Catlierpes mexicanus* consperstis 



Troglodytes nlbifrons, Ed. Stansbury's Rep. 1852, 327. 



Troglodytes mexicanus, Heerm. Journ. Phila. Acad. 1853, 263. Oass. 111. B. Cul. & Tex. 



1854, 173, pi. 30 (in part). 

 Catherpes mexicanus, Bd. BNA. 1858, 35<> (in part). Kmner. P.IRR. x. 1859, 26. Xant. Pr. 



Phila. Acad. 1859, 191 (California). Bd. Rev. AB. U864, 111 (in part). -Dress, Ibis, 1865, 



484 (Texas). Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 77 (Arizona). Coop. B. Gal. i. 1870, 66, figs. 



Aiken, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 196 (Colorado, resident). Allen. ull. MCZ. 1872, 175 



(Colorado City). Allen, Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 404. Coues, Key, 1872, 85. Merr. U. S. 



Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872, 1873,713 (Utah). Coop. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 17. Coues, BN\V. 



1874, 28. 

 Catherpes mexicanus var. conspcrsus. Ridgw. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 603. Ridg. Bull. Ess. 



Inst. v. 1873, 180 (Colorado). JW. Br. ff Ry. NAB. i. 1874, 139, fig. pi. 8, f. 4.~Yarr. S? 



Hensh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 9. Hensh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 41, IOL Hensh. Zool. 



Expl. W. 100 Merid. 1876, 181. 

 White-throated Wren, White-throated Rock Wren, Caiion Wren, Authors. 



HAB. Throughout New Mexico and Arizona, and portions of Texas, 

 Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. Resident. 



CH. SP. S 2 Brunneus, antice pdllescens, posticd rufescens, 

 undique albido nigroque punctatus ; caudd cinnamomind, angustis- 

 sime nigrofasciatd ; guld alba; ventre ferrugineo, obsoletd albido 

 fuscoque notato; pedibits nigris. 



$ $ , adult : Upper parts brown, paler and grayer anteriorly, behind shad- 

 ing insensibly into rich rufous, everywhere dotted with small du>sky and 

 whitish spots. Tail clear cinnamon-brown, crossed with, numerous very 

 narrow and mostly zigzag black bars. Wing-quills dark brown, the outer 

 webs of the primaries and both webs of the inner secondaries barred with 

 the color of the back. Chin, throat, and fore breast, with tho lower half 

 of the side of the head and neck, white, shading behind through ochraceous- 

 brown into rich deep ferruginous, and posteriorly obsoletely waved with 

 dusky and whitish. Bill slate color, of a pale livid hue below ; feet black; 



* The synonymy of the true mexicanus is : 

 Thryothorus mexicanus, Sw. Zool. 111. i. 1829, pi. 11. 

 Troglodytes mexicanus, Licht. " Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. 1830, 2 "; J. f. O. 1863, 57. Gray, G. 



of B. i. 1847, 159. 

 SalpinCtCS mexicanus, Cab. Wieg. Arch. 1847, Bd. i. 324,-Bp. CA. i. 1850, 224.- Cab. MH. 



1. 1850, 78. Scl. PZS. 1855, 66; 1857,212 (Orizaba); 18o8, 29 (Oaxaca). Scl. Cat. AB. 



1861, 18. 

 Catherpes mexicanus, Scl. PZS. 1864, 172 (City of Mexico). Sumich. Mem. Bost. Soc. i. 



1869, 545 (Vera Cruz). 

 Catherpes mexicanus var. mexicanus, Ridg. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 603. Bd. Br. Ry. NAB. i. 



1874, 138. 

 Thryothorus gllttlllatUS, Lafr. RZ. 1839, 99. 



? Troglodytes albicollis, " Cm>." 



? Troglodytes murarlus, Licfit. " Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. 1830, 2 "; J. f. 0. 1863, 57. 



?Certhia albifrons, Giraud, Sixteen Sp.Tex. B. 1841, pi. 8 (see Ridg. Am. Nat. vii. 1873,604). 



HAB. Mexico, southward from near the border of the United States. 



