TROGLODYTES. lOT 



Family TROGLODYTIDJi:. 



Genus TROGLODYTES Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. ii. 

 1807, p. 52. 



Type : T. aedon Vieill. 



Troglddytes^TpiiiyXoSvTris, one that creeps into holes; first applied to a 

 bird by Aetius about a.d. 550. Prom Tpi!}y\ti=a hole, and W(i)=I go into. 



Troglodytes troglodytes. Wren. 



Motacilla troglodytes Limmus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 188 : 



Sweden. 



Anorthura troglodytes {Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. 



1881, p. 269. 

 Troglodytes parvulus Koch ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 29 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 115. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — Besident and generally 

 distributed, except in the Shetland Islands and St. Kilda, 

 where it is represented by racial forms. A number of 

 visitors from the Continent, occur, chiefly on the north and 

 east coasts, as Birds of Passage, and some may winter. 



General Distribution. — The Wren inhabits Europe from 

 northern Scandinavia to the Urals and the shores of the 

 Mediterranean. Allied forms, in addition to those men- 

 tioned below, inhabit Icelaiid and the Faeroes, some Medi- 

 terranean islands, north-west Africa, and many parts of Asia 

 and North America. 



Troglodytes troglodytes hirtensis. 



St. Kilda Wken. 



Troglodytes hirtensis Seebohm, Zoologist, 1884, p. 333 : 



St. Kilda. 



Troglodytes hirtensis Seehohm ; Saimders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, 

 p. 115. 



