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Troglodytes (Anortliura) hyemalis, Bd. BNA. 1858, 369. Allen, Pr. ESS. inst. iv. 1864, 68. 



Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 78. 

 Anorthura hyemalis, Coues 4- Prent. Smiths. Rep. for 1861, 1862, 410. Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst. 



v. 1868, 278. Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 1868, 108. Mayn. Nat. Guide, 1870, 96. Allen, 



Bull. MCZ. ii. 1871, 267. Trippe, Am. Nat, vii, 1873, 498. 

 Troglodytes enropivus, Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 188. Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, 



93, 440. Nutt. Man. i. 1832, 427. 



TrogloditCS europjeiJS, Ornith. Comm. Journ. Phila. Acad. vii. 1837, 193 (Columbia River). 

 Anorthura troglodytes var. hyemalis, Coues, Key, 1872, 351. Coues, BNW. 1874, 33. 

 Troglodytes parvillUS var. hyemalis, Ridgw. Bull. Ess. Inst. v. 1873, 180 (Colorado). B. B. 



ff R. NAB. i. 1874, 155, pi. 9. figs. 9, 10. 



Troglodytes hyemalis var. paciflcus, Bd. Rev. AB. i. 1864, 145. 

 Troglodyte d'hiver, LeM. Ois. Canad. 1861, 183. 

 Winter Wren, Authors. 



HAB. North America at large, and portions of Mexico (Cordova, Sdater). 



CH. SP. $ 2 Brunneus, postice magis rufescens, obsolete fusco- 

 fasciata, pogoniis exterioribus remigum exteriorum albido-fascia- 

 tis; infra brunneo-albida, postice brunnescens, ventre imo, Jiypo- 

 chondriis crissoque fusco et albido undulatis; caudd alls breviore. 



$ 9 Above brown, duller before, brighter behind, most of the back, 

 together with the tail and inner wing-quills, banded with dusky, the mark- 

 ings obsolete on the back, where they are usually accompanied by whitish 

 specks, strongest on the wings and tail. Outer webs of several of the pri- 

 maries regularly barred with brownish-white, in marked contrast with the 

 outer bars of the wings. An inconspicuous whitish superciliary line. Below 

 brownish, paler or whitish anteriorly, the lower belly, flanks, and crissum 

 heavily waved with dusky and whitish bars. Bill slender, straight, decid- 

 edly shorter than the head. Tail much shorter than the wings. Length, 

 about 4; extent, 6-6$; wing, If; tail, \\ ; bill, f-j- ; tarsus, middle toe, and 

 claw together, about H. 



FIG. 24. Winter Wren. 



With a general resemblance to the House Wren, this species is immedi- 

 ately distinguished by the very short tail, beyond which the outstretched 

 feet reach considerably, the very heavy coloring of the lower hind parts, and 

 other characters. 



A slight variety, pacificus, in which the general colors are darker, and the 

 obsolete markings of the back almost inappreciable, and unaccompanied by 

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