TBOGLODYTIDJE — TEOGLODTTINJE: : TRUE WBENS. 



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mediate ; upper parts most like tliose of C. conspersus, and wings completely barred as in tliat 

 species; but under parts posteriorly dusky ferruginous (dark mahogany color), and tail- bars 

 broad, firm, and regular, as in mexiccmus. proper. Coast region of California. The type speci- 

 men, the only one I have seen, for some years in my cabinet and now No. 82,715, Mus. S. I., 

 seems to be recognizably distinct ; but all the forms of the genus intergrade. (Not in Check 

 List, 1882 ; since described by Bidgway, Pr. Nat. Mus., v., 1883, p. 343.) 



10. 



True Wrens. 



Subfamily TROCLODYTIN/E 



See characters and analysis of this group on p. 27i. 



22. THBYOTHO'RUS. (Gr. dpiov, thruon, a reed, and Bovpos, thouros, leaping.) Reed Weens. 



Of largest size in this subfamily; length 5.50-6.00. Back uniform in color, without streaks or 



bars; wings and tail more or less barred crosswise; belly unmarked ; a long superciliary stripe ; 



rump with concealed white spots. Eggs colored. 



Tail not longer than wings, like back in color, and barred, in TArj^o^ftoniS proper Nos, 68, 69, 70 



Tail longer than wings, blackish, not fully barred, in Thrymrumes 71, 72, 73 



68. T. ludovicia'nus. (Lat. Ludovidanus, Louisiana ; of Ludovicus, Louis XIV., of France. 

 Fig. 149.) Great Carolina Wren. Upper parts uniform reddish-brown, brightest on the 

 rump, where are concealed whitish spots ; a 

 long whitish superciliary line, usually bordered 

 with dusky streaks ; upper surfaces of wings 

 and tail like back, barred with dasky, the outer 

 edges of the primaries and lateral tail-feathers 

 showing whitish spots. Below, rusty or muddy 

 whitish, clearest anteriorly, deepening behind, 

 the under tail-coverts reddish-brown barred 

 with blackish. Wing-coverts usually with dusky 

 and whitish tips. Feet livid flesh-colored. 

 Length 6.00 ; extent nearly 7.50 ; wing 2.40 ; 

 tail 2.25 ; bill 0.65 ; tarsus 0.75. Eastern 

 TJ. S., southerly; N. regularly to the Middle 

 States, rarely to Massachusetts ; resident as far 

 north at least as Washington. A common and 

 well-known inhabitant of shrubbery, with a 

 loud ringing song; shy and secretive. Nest in 

 any nook about out-buUdings, or in shrubbery, 

 when in the latter usually roofed over, of the 

 most miscellaneous materials ; eggs 6-7, white, 

 profusely speckled and blotched with shades of 

 reddish, brown, and purplish; 0.73 X 0.60. 



69. T. 1. miamien'sis. (Of the Miami River, Florida.) Floridan Wren. Similar: larger, 

 stouter, and more deeply-colored, especially below, where nearly uniform rusty-brown. Wing 

 2.75; tail 2.60; biU0.90; tarsus 0.95. Florida; a local race. 



70. T. 1. berlan'dleri. (To Dr. Louis Berlandier.) Texan Wren, Similar: smaller; length 

 5.35 ; wing 2.25 ; tail 2.12. Coloration darker than in typical ludovida/rms, especially below; 

 flanks as well as crissum barred with dusky ; tail-bars broken up into irregular nebulation. 

 Valley of the Eio Grande ; a local race. 



71. T. be'wickl. (To Thomas Bewick.) Bewick's Wren. Above, dark grayish-brovm ; 

 below, ashy-white, with a brownish wash on the flanks. Rump with concealed whitish spots. 

 A long whitish superciliary stripe from nostrils to nape. Under tail-coverts dark-barred; two 

 middle tail-feathers like back, with numerous fine black bars; others black with whitish 



Fig. 149. — Great Carolina Wren, reduced. 

 Nuttall, after Audubon.) 



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