BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 555 



1891).— Neheling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 148.— Wayne, Auk, xii, 

 1895, 367 (Wacissa E., n. w. Florida, spring and winter). — Ulrey and Wal- 

 lace, Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1895, 158 (Wabash, Indiana, common summer 

 resident).— Hadley, Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci., 1897, 196 (Richmond, Wayne Co., 

 Indiana). — Deaeboen, Prelim. List Birds Belknap and Merrimac counties, 

 N. H., 1898, 32 (Alton, New Hampshire, 1 spec, Apr. 25, 1890).— Rhoads, 

 Auk, xvi, 1899, 313 (top of Tuscarora Mt., Fulton Co., Pennsylvania, breed- 

 ing; Beaver, Pennsylvania, 1 spec, Apr. 27, 1898; Round Island, Pennsyl- 

 vania, 2 specs., May 27, 1896). 



IThryothorus} bemckii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 86. 



Thryathorus bewickii, var. bewicUi Baied, Review Am. Birds, Oct., 1864, 126.— 

 Baied, Beewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 145. 



Tlhryothorus] bewickii Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 367 (s. and centr. 

 Illinois, resident); Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 557. — Nelson, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., v, 1876, 96, 152 (Chicago, Illinois, rare, summer resident). 



Tlhryothorus] bevncki. CouEs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 277. 



\_Thryoihorus bewickii'] a. bewickii Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 31. 



Thryothorus beivickii bewickii Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. , no. 20, 1883, 346. 



[Thryomanes betmcki leucogaster] a. bemcki Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 169 

 (synonymy). 



Thryomanes bewicki Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, July, 1877, 60; iii, 1878, 

 163 (Mount Carmel, Illinois; habits); vii, 1882, 19 (Wheatland, Indiana, 

 common), 253 (Arlington, Virginia, 1 spec, Apr. 10, 1882); Nom. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 61. 



Thryomanes beiinckii American Oenithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 

 1899, 124.— Beyer, Proc. Louis. Soc. Nat. for 1897-1899 (1900), 42 (Louisiana, 

 winter resident). 



Thryomanes bewickii bewickii Obeeholser, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, Nov. 19, 

 1898, 423 (monogr.). 



Tlelmatodytes] bewicki Cabanis, Mus. Hein.,,i, 1850, 78, footnote. 



ITelmatodytes] bewicki Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1882, 48, 

 part. 



THRYOMANES BEWICKII CRYPTUS Oberholser. 

 TEXAN WREN. 



Similar to T. b. iewicMi but decidedly larger, tail relatively longer 

 (averaging equal to or longer than wing instead of distinctly shorter), 

 and coloration grayer above (broccoli brown to a more decided brown 

 hue), and whiter beneath, with blackish bars on under tail-coverts 

 much narrower. 



Adult male.—hength (skins), 121-135 (127.4); wing, 55-60 (57); tail, 

 64.5-60 (57.7); exposed culmen, 13.5-14.5 (13.9); tarsus, 18.5-20 (18.8); 

 middle toe, 12-12.5 (12.1).« 



Adklt female.— Length (skins), 118-133(121.8); wing, 51-55.5 (53.2); 

 tail, 50-57(53.8); exposed culmen, 13-14.5 (13.7); tarsus, 18-20(18.6); 

 middle toe, 12-13 (12.4).« 



Texas, except extreme western portion, northward to Oklahoma (Fort 

 Reno), middle and southwestern Kansas, and eastern Colorado; south- 



a Ten specimens. 



