530 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
middle and greater wing-coverts usually marked with small termi- 
nal white spots; a broad rusty brown stripe behind eye; lower 
parts varying from dull white to deep tawny buff (the chin always 
whitish); lower tail-coverts barred with dusky; length 5.25-6.00, 
wing 2.18-2.50 (2.35), tail 1.80-2.35 (2.09), exposed culmen .60—70 
(.64), tarsus .72-.88 (.81). West usually in woods. Eggs 3-6, .75 x 
58, white, pinkish white, creamy white, or pale pinkish cream-color, 
thickly speckled, on or round larger end, with reddish brown. Hab. 
Eastern United States, except southeastern Florida; rare or local 
north of about 40°; west to edge of Great Plains; south to Gulf 
coast, including northeastern Mexico (Nuevo Leon and Tamauli- 
(88.) PAS )issusiecvssarcernents 718. T. ludovicianus (Lats.). Carolina Wren. 
c, Larger, and darker colored; above deep chestnut, beneath deep tawny, 
paler (more buffy) on belly and under tail-coverts; superciliary 
stripe buff; otherwise like 7. ludovicianus ; length about 5.80-6.50, 
wing 2.45-2.75 (2.61), tail 2.25-2.60 (2.43), exposed culmen .70-.80 
(78), tarsus .85-.95 (.88). Hab. Southeastern Florida. 
718a. T. ludovicianus miamensis Ripcw. Florida Wren. 
b*. Tail-feathers (except middle pair) chiefly plain blackish, the outer feathers 
spotted and barred at tip with light grayish and dull whitish. (Middle 
pair of tail-feathers grayish brown or brownish gray, barred or trans- 
versely spotted with black or dusky.) (Subgenus Taryomanes ScLaTER.) 
c', Tail decidedly shorter than wing. 
Above deep umber-brown (more grayish in worn plumage), the 
middle tail-feathers grayer, barred or transversely spotted with 
dusky ; superciliary stripe and streaks on side of neck white; 
lower parts brownish white, becoming more strongly tinged 
with brownish posteriorly, especially on flanks; length about 
5.10-5.50, wing 2.30-2.40, tail 2.05-2.15, exposed culmen .65— 
.68, tarsus .80. Hab. Yucatan, and adjacent portions of Gua- 
temala and Mexico. 
T. albinucha (Canor). Cabot’s Wren.’ 
ce. Tail equal to or longer than wing. (West usually about buildings, 
except in unsettled districts. £ggs 5-7—rarely 9—pure white or 
pinkish white, finely, often very minutely, speckled or sprinkled 
on or round larger end with reddish brown and lilac-gray.) 
d'. Top of head, back, ete., deep umber-brown ; length 5.00-5.50, wing 
2.05-2.25 (2.14), tail 2.10-2.40 (2.21), exposed culmen .50-.55 
1 Specimens from northeastern Mexico constitute the 7. berlandieri BairD, which will probably prove ten- 
able as a race, the three specimens upon which the species was based, although in worn breeding plumage, being 
much deeper rusty ochraceous beneath even than in winter specimens of 7. ludovicianus, and also different in 
some other characters. All Texan specimens, however, that I have seen, including several from the lower Rio 
Grande (SENNETT), are so like the ordinary northern birds that I am unable to appreciate any difference. 
2 Troglodytes albinucha Caxort, Proc. Bost. Soe. N. H. ii. 1847, 258. Thryothorue albinucha Barrp, Rev. 
1864, 149; Satv. & Govm., Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i. 1880, 94, pl. 7, fig. 2. 
