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717b. Dotted Canon Wren. C. m. xjunctulatus. 



Range. — Pacific coast from Oregon to Lower California. 



The habits and eggs of this coast form of the White-throated Wren do not 

 vary in any particular from those of the preceding variety. 



7 18. Carolina Wren. Thryothorus ludovirAanus. 



Range. — Eastern United States, breeding from the Gulf to 

 southern New England and Illinois; resident in the greater 

 part of its range. 



These loud-voiced songsters are well known in the south 

 "where they are very abundant, being found along banks of 

 streams, in thickets, along walls, or about brush heaps. 

 They nest in almost any suitable nook or corner, in hollow 

 trees or stumps, bird boxes, about buildings, and in brush or bushes. When 

 in exposed positions, the nest, which is made of all sorts of trash, is arched 

 over; the eggs, which are laid from March to June, and frequently later, as 

 several broods are sometimes reared in a season, are white, profusely specked 

 with light reddish brown and purplish. Size .74 x .60 

 718a. Florida Wren. T. I. miamensis. 



Range. — Southern Florida. 



A similar bird to the last but darker above and brighter below. Its eggs are 

 ■not distinguishable from those of the last. 

 718b. Lomlta Wren. T. I. lomitensis. 



Range. — Southern Texas. 



This sub-species is abundant along the Lower Rio Grande in southern Texas, 

 where its habits are the same as those of the others and the eggs are not 

 distinctive. 

 719. Bewick Wren. Thnjoinanes beivickii. 



„ — -, Range. — South Atlantic and Gulf States, and the Mississippi 



Valley north to Minnesota and locally to the Middle States in 

 the east. 



This species is not common on the Atlantic coast but in the 

 interior it is the most abundant of the Wrens, nesting in holes 

 in trees, stumps, fences, bird boxes, tin cans, etc., filling the 

 cavities with grass and rootlets. Their eggs are laid in the 

 latter part of April or May; they are white, specked and usually wreathed about 

 the large end with reddish brown and purplish. Size .65 x .50. 

 719a. Vigors Wren. Thryomanes bewickii spihirus. 



Range. — Pacific coast of California. 



This similar bird to the last has the same general habits and the eggs are 

 not in any way different from those of Bewick Wren. 



7 19b, Baird Wren. T. 6. leiccogaster. 



Range.— Southwestern United States, from western Texas to eastern California 

 and north to Colorado and Nevada. 



Like the two preceding Wrens, this one nests in natural or artificial 

 cavities, and the four to seven eggs that they lay are precisely alike, in every 

 respect, those of the others. 



7 1 9o. Texas Bewick Wren. T. b. cryjitus. 



Range. — Texas, north in summer to western Kansas. 



A very abundant bird in Texas. Nesting habits not unusual nor eggs 

 distinctive. 



7 1 9d. Southwest Bewick Wren. T. b. charienturus. 

 Range. — Coast of southern California. 



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