172 CHARACTERS OF THE WESTERN HOUSE WREN 



b. parkmani 



Tl'Oglodites fulviIS, Ornitk. Comm. Journ. Phila. Acad. vii. 1837, 193. 



Troglodytes flllVUS, Towns. Journ. Pbila. Acad. viii. 1839, 154. 



Troglodytes parkmanii, And. OB. v. 1839, 310. And. Syn. 1839, 75. Towns. Journ. Phila. 

 Acad. 1839, 154. Nutt. Man. i. 2d ed. 1840, 483. And. BA. ii. 1841, 133, pi. 122. 



Troglodytes parkmanni, Bp. CA. i. 1850, ya-i Bd. BXA. 1858, 367.- Bd. u. S. Mex. B. 

 Surv. li. pt. ii. 1859, 13. Xant. Pr. Phila. Acad. 1859, 191. 0. 6f S. NHVVT. I860, 191. 

 Bd. Ives's Rep. pt. v. 1861, 6. Blakist. This, iv. 1862, 5 (Saskatchewan) ; 1863, Ql.Hayd. 

 Tr. Am. Philos. Soc. xii. 1862, 164. Bd. Rev. AB. 1864, L4'. Cones, Ibis, 1865, 164. 

 Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 78. Brown, Ibis, 1868, 4-21. Corp. B. Gal. i. 1870, 71, fig. 

 Coop. Pr. Gala. Acad. 1870, 75.Ooop. Am. Nat. iv. 1871, 758. Allen, Am. Nat, vi. 1872, 

 275. Merr. U. S. Geol. Surv. 1873, 673, 713. Ridg. Am. Nat. viii. 1874, 200. 



Troglodytes parkmani, Aiken, Pr. Boat. Soc. xv. 1872, 196. 



Troglodytes parkmannii, stee. U. S. G*oi. Surv. for 1870, 1871, 464. 



Troglodytes aedon, S. ff R. FBA. ii. 1831,316, fig. (Rocky Mountains). 



Troglodytes aedon, Heerm. PRRR. x. 1859, \\.-Holden, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. 1872, 196. 



Troglodytes aedon var. parkmanni, Coues, Key, 1872, 87. Rid?. Bull. E*s. lost v. 1873. 

 180. Yarr. tf Hensh. Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 8. B. B. ff R. NAB. i. 1874, 151. Allen 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1874, 50. Nelson, Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 357. 



Troglodytes aedon var. parkmanni, Coues, BNW. 1874, 32. Hensh, Rep. Orn. Specs. 1874, 

 41, 57, 74, 101. Hensk. Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. 1876, 184. 



Troglodytes aedon oar. parkmani, Allen, Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 362. Trippe apud Coues, BNW. 

 1874. 231. Hensh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 155. 



Troglodytes Sylfestris, Gamb. Pr. Phila. Acad. iii. 1846, 113. 



Troglodytesamerlcanus, Gamb. Journ. Phila. Acad. i. 1847, 33. Heerm. Journ. Phila. Acad. ii. 

 1853, 263. Henry,Pr. Phila. Acad. vii. 1855,309; xi. 1859, 107. Heerm. PRRR. x. 1859, 41. 



ParkmuiiV or Parkmann's Wren, Western liouse Wren, Authors. 



HAB. Of the typical form, Eastern United States and British Provinces ; 

 west to Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, &c. Of var. parkmani, United States 

 from the high central plains to the Pacific. 



CH. sr. (b. PARKMANI). $ 2 Bnmneus y uropygio vix discolore, 

 notceOj alls eauddque fuseo transfaseiatis ; infra brunneo-albidas, 

 dbdomine albicante, hypochondriis criss.oque fasciatis. Staturd 

 T. aedoniSj sed alis eauddque longioribus. 



$ 9 : Brown above, little brighter on the rump, nearly everywhere waved 

 with dusky, strongest on the wings and tail, but usually very appreciable 

 on Ihe whole back as well. Below brownish-white, becoming nearly pure 

 white on the belly, obscurely variegated with darker markings, which, on 

 the flanks and crissum, become stronger bars, alternating with brown and 

 whitish ones. Bill blackish above, pale below ; feet brown. Length, 5 

 inches or a little more; extent, 6f ; wing, 2 or rather more; tail almost 2. 



With a very close resemblance to typical aedon, this form ditfers appreci- 

 ably in some points of form as well as of color. The wings and tail are 

 decidedly longer, and this elongation of the wing results in a different 

 relative proportion of the first primary, the exposed portion of which in 

 aedon is about half as long as the longest primary, while the same in park- 

 mani is only about half as long as the second primary. The Colorado region 

 furnishes extreme cases of this difference, as it also does of the paleness of 

 color which characterizes the western style of House Wren. The bird has a 

 faded appearance in comparison with typical aedon, and the brownish of the 

 rump is little different from that of the back. 



