THRYOTHORUS LUDOVICIANUS : CAROLINA WREN. 93 



FAMILY TROGLODYTID^: : WRENS. 



GREAT CAROLINA WREN. 

 THRYOTHORUS LUDOVICIANUS (Lath.) 



Chars. Tail not longer than wings, all its feathers reddish-brown 

 with numerous fine black bars. Above, clear reddish-brown, 

 slightly grayer on head, brightest on rump; below, tawny of 

 varying shade ; a long, conspicuous white or tawny supraciliary 

 line ; wings edged with the color of the back, and dusky-waved ; 

 wing-coverts usually whitish-spotted ; under tail-coverts usually 

 blackish-barred ; sides of body unmarked. Length 5.50 to nearly 

 6.00 ; wing, 2.33 ; tail rather less. 



[An inhabitant of all the Carolinian Fauna, and 

 therefore necessarily a summer visitor in New Eng- 

 land, where it occurs but rarely, and only as far north 

 as Massachusetts. In 1868 I spoke of this bird as 

 one which might occur in southern New England, 

 basing this inference upon the known fact of its pres- 

 ence near New York city, as attested by Mr. G. N. 

 Lawrence. Mr. H. D. Minot lately said that two indi- 

 viduals were apparently passing the summer in a small 

 wooded swamp near Boston (Bull. Nutt. Club, i, 1876, 

 p. 76). Dr. Brewer shortly afterward recorded the 

 capture of a specimen by Mr. G. O. Welch at Lynn, 

 Mass., July 6, 1878 (Bull. Nuttall Club, iii, 1878, p. 

 193; Proc. Bost. Soc., xx, 1880, p. 265) ; giving us 

 not only the first instance of the actual taking of a 

 New England example, but also a sneer at Mr. Minot 

 and myself. Mr. H. A. Purdie subsequently mentioned 

 the capture of another at Saybrook, Conn., by Mr. J. 



