284 AVES. 
TroGLopytEs, Cuy. 
The only difference between the Wrens and the present subgenus 
is, that in the latter the beak is still a little more slender and slightly 
arcuated. But one species is found in Europe. 
Mot. troglodytes, L.; Roitelet, Enl. 651, 2; Naum. 83, 4. (The 
European Wren.) Brown, transversely striated with black; 
some white on the throat and the edge of the wing; a turned-up 
and short tail. It builds on the ground, and cheers us with its 
pleasing song eyen in the middle of winter.(1) 
Moracitia, Bechst. 
The Wagtails, to a still slenderer beak than that of the Fau- 
vettes, add a long tail which they are continually raising and de- 
pressing, lone legs, and scapular feathers sufficiently extended to 
cover the tip of the folded wing, which gives them an affinity with 
the greater number of Waders. 
Moraciiia, Cuy. 
The true Wagtails still have the nail of the thumb curved like 
the rest ofthe group. They live along the shores of water courses. 
That of France (Mot. alba and cinerea, L.), Enl. 652, is ash 
~ coloured above, white beneath; a calotte on the occiput; throat 
and breast, black. 2 
The south of Europe produces one which when old has a 
black back, but resembling the preceding when young. It is 
the Mot. lugubris, Roux, 194. 
Bupyres, Cuy.(2) 
In addition to the other characters of the true Wagtails, the nail 
of the thumb is here elongated and but slightly arcuated, which * 
approximates these birds to the Larks. They generally remain in 
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1;—S. speciosa, 1b. 2;—S. palpebrosa, Ib., &c. &c. Those whose beak is somewhat 
broad at base, are closely allied to the narrow-beaked Flycatchers. For the cata- 
logue of species in the United States, see the paper by M. Ch. Bonaparte. Ann. 
New York Lyc. July 11, 1826, p. 76, etseq. See App. XVIII of Am. Ed. 
(1) The Wrens foreign to Europe are allied to the Ant-catchers on the one 
hand, and to the Creepers on the other. Add the Thriotore @ long bec (Thr. lon- é. 
Sirostris, Vieill. Gal. 168, or Kampylorhynchus scolopaceus, Spix, 79). [Add 
Trog. aedon. Wils. I, pl. iii, f. 3;—Trog. palustris (Thyothorus arundinaceus, 
Vieill.), Wils. II, pl. xii, f. 4;—Trog. ludovicianus (Sylvia ludoviciana, wig ) 
Wils. UH, pl. xii, f. v. Am. Ed.} ' 
(2) Budytes, from its being seen among cattle, Ps ; 
