230 BIEDS — TROGLODYTID^. 



differences are not distinctive of age, sex or season. I have found both 

 forms in the sani'e brood of young before they were fully fledged, the con- 

 trast being as decided as in young birds of the Gray and Red varieties of 



the Mottled Owl. 



Genus TROGLODYTES. 



Bill shortei* than the head, compressfd, decmxed. Winga about equal to the tail. 

 Hind claw shorter tba'n the rest of toe. Toes leacliing to the end of tail. 



Troglodytes domesticus (Bartram) Cs. 



liouse "Wreiio 

 Troglodi/les aedon, Read, Proc. Phila, Acad., Nat Sci., vi, 185.3, 396.— Wheaton, Ohio 



Agrio. Rep. for 1860, 1«61, ;i(>5 ; Reprint, 7 ; Food of Birds, etc., Oliio Agrio. Rep. for 



1874, 187."), 56:! ; Reprint, 'A. 

 Troglodytes esdon, Langdon, Cat. Birdri of Ciii., 1877, 4 ; Tourii. Cin, .Sue. Nar,. Hint., i, 



lr78, lU; Repriut, ii; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soe. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 170; Ko- 



print, 4. 



Motaeilla domfsHoa, Bartram, Trav Fla., i, 1791, 9Sl 

 Troglodyfeo domesiica, CouES, Proc. Phila, Acad., 1875, H51. 

 Troglodytes cedon, Vikillot, Ora. Am, Sept., ii, 1807, 52. 

 Troglodytes aedon, Peabddy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 314. 



Above brown, brighter bchiiid ; below rusr.y brown or grayish brown or even grayish 

 white ; everywhere waved with a daiker shade, very plainly on wings, tail, flanks and 

 under tail coverts; breast apt to be daiker (hau either throat or belly. Length 4^; 

 wings and tail about a. 



Ha'iit.at, Eastern United States and British ProTiuces ; west to Dakota, Nebraska, 

 Ka.nsas, etc. 



Thkyothorus bewickii (And.) Bp. 



Bewick's "Wren. 



Thryothorus lewickii, Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Kt-p lor leOO, 379 (probable) ; Eepriut, 1861, 

 7 ; Food of Birds, eic, Ohio Agric. Rep. fur 1874, 562; Reprint, 3,— Langd; N, Cat. 

 Birds, of Ci].., 1877, 4. 



Thryothorus ieicickii var. liewicliii, Langdox, Revised List, Jonni, Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 

 1879, 170 ; Reprint, 4. 



Troglodytes beicickii, AuuuBON, Orn. Biog., i, 1831,96. 

 Thryothorus bewickii. Butcher, Proc. Philad. Acad., 1868, 149. 

 Thryothorus bewickii var hewickii, Baird, Rev. Am. Birds, 1864, 126. 



Tail longer than the wings. Grayish brown; below ashy white; superciliary line 

 white; wiugs dusky, luiutly waved; under tail coverts dark barred ; two middle tail 

 feathers like back, with numerous flue black bars, others black, several of the lateral 

 ones with white or gray spots or tips. Length 5^ ; wing about 2 ; tail WJ-. 



Habitat, United States, Southern. 



Bewick's Wren was named as an Ohio bird by myself in 1861, on the supposed authority 

 of Dr. Kirtlaiid and Mr. E K. Winslow, of Cleveland. It now seems that this was a 

 mintake, the bird never having been tiiken in Northern Ohio. Mr. Langdon, very properly 

 gi%'es it in his list, one specimen having been taken and another seen by Mr. E R. Quick at 

 BrookviUe, Indiana, a few miles from the Ohio line. It almost certainly occurs in South- 

 western Ohio, but must be positively identified before it can be considered an Ohio bird. 



