164 SYNONYMY AND CHARACTERS OF CANON WRKN 



Canon Wren 



Catlierpes mexicanus* conspersns 



Troglodytes albifrons, 3d. Stansbury's Rep. 1852, 337. 



Troglodytes mexicanilS, Heerm. Journ. Phila. Acad. 1853, 363.— Cass. 111. B. Ciil. & Tex. 

 1854, 173, pi. .30 (in part). 



Catherpes meXlcanilS, Bd. BSA. 1838, 356 (in part).— STmner. P^RR. %. 1859, 36.— Jfnnl. Pr. 

 Phila. Acad. 1859, 191 (California).— Bd. Rev. AB. i.l864,|lll (in part).- ZJress, Ibis, 1865, 

 484 (Texan).- Cones, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 77 (Arizona).— Coop. B. Cal, i. 1870, 66, flgs,- 

 Aiken, Pr. Boat. Soc. xv. 1872, 196 (Colorado, naiienl) .— Allen, full. MCZ. 1872, 175 

 (Colorado City).— ^iisTi, Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 404.— Coaes, Key, 1873, 85.— Merr. U. .S. 

 Geol. Snrv. Terr, for 1872, 1873,713 (UtHh).—Coop. Am. Nat. viii. 1871, 17.— Cones, BNW. 

 1874, 28. 



catherpes mexicanus var. conspersus. Ridgm. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, eO'i.—Ridg. Bull. EsH, 

 Inst. V. 1873, 180 (Colorado).— Bd. Br. If Ry. NAB. i. 1674, 139, fig. pi. 8, f. i.—Yarr. S( 

 WctisA. Rep. Orn. Speca. 1874, 9.— //ensi. Rep. Om. Specs. 1874,41, 101.— HsnsA. Zool. 

 Expl. W. lUO Merid. 1876, 181. 



Wblte-throated Wren, White-throated Koch Wren, Caflon Wren, Authors. 



Hab. — Througliont New Mexico aud Arizona, and portions of Texas, 

 Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. Resident. 



Ch. SP. — i 2 Brunneus, anticS pallescens, posticd rufescens, 

 midique albido nigroqiw punotatus ; caudd cinnamomind, angustin- 

 sime nigrofasciaid ; guld albd ; ventre ferrugineo, obsoletd albido 

 fuscoque notato; pedibns nigris. 



3 g , adult : Upper parts brown, paler and grayer anteriorly, behind shad- 

 ing insensibly into rich rnfons, everywhere dotted with small dusky and 

 whitish spots. Tail clear cinnamon-brown, crossed with numerous very 

 narrow and mostly zigzag black bars. Wing-quills dark brown, the outer 

 webs of the primaries and both webs of the inner secondaries barred with 

 the color of the back. Chin, throat, and fore breast, with the lower half 

 of the side of the head and neck, white, shading behind through ochraceous- 

 brown into rich deep ferruginous, and posteriorly obsoletely waved with 

 dusky and whitish. Bill slate color, of a pale livid hue below ; feet black; 



' The synonymy of the true mexicanva is : — ■ 

 Thryotborns mexlcauns, Sw, Zool. III. i. 1829, pi. ll. 



Troglodytes mexlcanus, Lickt. " Preis-Verz. Mex. Viig. 1830, 2 "; J. f. O. 1863, 57.— Gray, G. 



of B. i. 1847, 159. 

 8alplncles mexicanus, Cab. W^ieg. Arch. 1817, Bd. i. 324.— Bp. CA. i. 1850,324.- Cai. MH. 



t. 1850, 78.— Sc;. PZS. 18J5, 66 ; 1857, 213 (Orizabal ; 1858, 39 (Oaxaca).- Sci. Cat. AB. 



1861, 18. 

 Catherpes mexicanus, Sd. PZS. 1864, 172 (City of .Mexico).— SumicA. Mem. Bost. Soc. i. 



1869, 54 J (Vera Cruz). 

 Catherpes mexicanus Mr. mrxlcauus, Ridg. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 603.— Bd. Br. Ry. KAB. i. 



1874, 138. 



Tbryotborus guttulatos, Lafr. RZ. 1839, 99. 



? Troglodytes alblcollls, " Cm." 



1 Troglodytes murarlus, Licln. " Preia-Verz. Mex. Vog. 1830, 2 "; J. f. 0. 1863, 57. 



?Certbla albifrons, airaud, Sixteen Sp.Tex. B. 1841, pi. 8 (see Ridg. Am. Nat. vii. 1873,604). 



Hab. — Mexico, southward from near the border of the United States. 



