BIRDS OF WOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 579 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Totontepec; Capulalpam), 

 Yucatan (Merida; La Vega), and Chiapas (Chicharras; Tapachula San 

 Cristobal; Valley of Comitan), and Guatemala (Duenas; Panajachel; 

 Quezaltenango; Coban; Retalhuleu). 



Troglodytes, sp.? Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 372 (Mexico). 



Troglodytes aedon (not of Vieillot) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 9 (Dueiias' 

 Guatemala). 



(?) Troglodytes aedon Boucard, List* Ois. Guat., 1878, 29. 



(?) [Troglodytes'] aedon Heine and Eeichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1882, 47 

 (Dueiias, Guatemala). 



Troglodytes hypaedon Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 128 (s. Mexico and 

 Guatemala; coll. P. L. Sclater); 1862, 18 (Totontepec and Capulalpam, 

 Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 23 (Oaxaca; Guatemala). 



Troglodytes musculus hypaedon Oberholsee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, no. 1354, 

 Jan. 23, 1904, 204 (crit.). 



[Troglodytes] tessellalus (not T. lecellata Latresnaye and D'Orbigny) Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 7, part. 



Troglodytes iniemiedius (not of Cabanis) Baied, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 142, 

 part (Totontepec, Oaxaca; Guatemala). — Laweence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 

 1869, 199 (Merida, Yucatan). — Salvin andGoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 i, 1880, 100, part (Dueiias, Panajachel, Quezaltenango, Coban, etc., Guate- 

 mala). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 252, part (Duefias, Retalhu- 

 leu and Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Skinner, Condor, iii, 1901, 94 (Tapachula, 

 Chiapas; habits, etc. ) . 



T[roglodytes] intermedins Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 554, part. 



TROGLODYTES AEDON AEDON Vieillot. 

 HOUSE WREN. 



Adults in spring and summer. — Above brovsfn (nearest prouts 

 brown), duller and grayer on pileum, where the feathers have the cen- 

 tral portion indistinctly darker, brighter, or more rufescent on rump 

 and upper tail-coverts; feathers of rump with concealed roundish spots 

 of white, their basal portion dusky slate color; back and scapulars 

 sometimes nirrowlyand indistinctly barred with dusky; upper tail- 

 coverts nari'owly barred (more or less distinctly) with dusky; tail, 

 greater wing-coverts, and secondaries brown (approaching mars 

 brown) narrowly barrred with black; primaries dusky, their outer 

 webs spotted with pale brown (becoming whitish on outermost quills), 

 these spots in transverse series, forming regular broad bars; a narrow 

 and indistinct superciliary streak of pale grayish brown or grayish 

 bufiy; a broader postocular streak of deep brown on upper portion of 

 auricular region; suborbital, malar, and auricular regions (except 

 upper portion of the latter) very pale grayish bufiy or dull brownish 

 white, the last narrowly streaked with brown; chin, throat, and abdo- 

 men dull white, the last sometimes more or less speckled with dusky; 

 chest and sides of breast (sometimes throat also) very pale grayish 

 brown or gra5'ish bufiy, passing into a deeper and more decidedly brown 



