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brighter (a burnt-umber tint) on rump and upper tail-coverts, the wings 
and tail (often rump and back also) narrowly barred with dusky; outer 
webs of quills spotted with dusky and pale brownish or brownish white; 
superciliary stripe and lower parts pale isabella brownish, varying to 
dull light tawny, the belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts distinctly 
barred with blackish and whitish. 
c’. Paler, with rather shorter bill; chin, throat, chest, and breast pale dull 
isabella-color, sometimes inclining to dull brownish white anteri- 
orly ; upper parts more rusty brown; length 3.50-4.12, wing 1.75- 
2.00 (1.86), tail 1.15-1.40 (1.25), exposed culmen .38-.45 (.41), bill 
from nostril .30-.32 (.30), tarsus .65-.75 (.68). Eggs .69 x .50. 
Hab. Hastern North America, breeding from northern border of 
United States northward, and wintering from about its southern 
breeding limit southward. 
722. T. hiemalis Viziru. Winter Wren. 
e@. Darker, with rather longer bill; chin, throat, etc., deep isabella-color or 
dull tawny; upper parts darker, and less rusty, brown (almost a 
clear bistre shade anteriorly); length 3.60-4.25, wing 1.80-1.90 
(1.84), tail 1.20-1.35 (1.24), exposed culmen 40-45 (.42), bill from 
nostril .29-.35 (31), tarsus .65-.70 (.69). Eggs .60 x .48. Had. 
Pacific coast, breeding from southern coast ranges of California to 
Sitka ; south, in winter, to western Mexico, east to eastern Oregon, 
Nevada, etc. 
722a. T. hiemalis pacificus Barrp. Western Winter Wren. 
0%. Exposed culmen .55, or more; in plumage very similar to T. hiemalis pacifi- 
cus, but rather paler, especially on upper parts; length about 4.25-4.50, 
wing 2.05~-2.15 (2.07), tail 1.30-1.50 (1.40), exposed culmen .55-.62 (.59), 
bill from nostril 40-48 (.45), tarsus .70-.80 (.75). Hab. Aleutian and 
Prybilof Islands, Alaska.... 723. T. alascensis Barrp. Alaskan Wren. 
Gznus CISTOTHORUS Caszanis. (Page 540, pl. CXXI,, figs. 6, 9.) 
Species. 
Common CnHaracrers.—Above brown, the back streaked with black and white, 
the wings and tail more or less barred with blackish; lower parts whitish or 
buffy. West globular, with entrance in one side, attached to upright reeds, etc., 
in marshes. 
a', Bill much shorter than head, the culmen much shorter than middle toe, with- 
out claw; hind claw not longer than its toe; lower parts buffy, or ochra- 
ceous, more whitish on throat and belly; eggs pure white, unspotted. 
(Subgenus Cistothorus.) ; 
BY. Upper tail-coverts dull brown, distinctly barred with dusky ; rump similar, 
but more irregularly barred; hind-neck plain brownish, or (rarely) with 
very indistinct streaks; flanks and under tail-coverts dull buffy ochra- 
