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B. 



Tail Hiul wingn about f(|ual. 



a. tiuiieatli grajrittii-whitv. CrinRuni and flankii dts- 



tiuutly barred. Wing uovvrU Kpottfd with whit- 

 iah. Dark bant uf tail abuut halt' the width of 

 their interMpacert. 



First primary nearly half the longest. Color 



above dark-brown, rufous towards tail . 



Wing similar. Above paler brown 



First primary half the second. Above paler 



browa ....... 



Somewhat similar iaadon, bat darker. Sides 

 of head dark, without obscure superciliary 



BiruAK ••••••• 



b. Beneath all over yellowish-brown. Crissum band- 



ed ; Hanks indistinctly so or not at all. Wing 

 coverts not spotted. Dark bars of tail more 

 numerous, about equal to their light inter- 

 spaces. Inside of wings plain.' 



F'irst primary little more than half the second. 

 Beneath darker fulvous. Bars of tlauks in- 

 appreciable 



First primary more than half the longest. 

 Beneath pale fulvous. Flauks quite dis- 

 tinctly barred 



c. Throat and breast dark yellowish-brown, con- 



trasting with the whitish belly and strongly 

 barred flanks. Inside of wings banded. Bars 

 on tail one-fourth their interspaces. Wing 

 coverts spotted, and scapular::, banded with 

 whitish ........ 



Tail very short ; only about two-thirds the wing. 

 a. Pale reddish-brown ; dusky bars of upper parts 



with whitish spots or interspnoes 

 6. Dark rufous above and below ; upper parts with 

 few or almost no whitish spots . . . 



anion, 



trdon, var. attfcm, 



parkvianni. 



amencanus. 



intermedius. 



inquietus. 



brunneicottia. 



hyemalit, 



hyemnlis, var. 



pacijicus. 



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It-i 



a. Troglodytes. 



Troglodytes aedon. 



Tro(jlodyte$ apdo», ViBiLL. OiB. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 62, pi. evil.— In. 

 Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1819, 506.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 366.- 

 ScLATER, Catal. 1861, 22, no. 145. — Hylemathrous eedon, Cab. Jour. 

 1860, 407. 



' The South American species resemble those mentioned in this division; 

 but beneath are either banded slightly on the crissum only, or not at all even 

 there. 



