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hue on sides and flanks, which are more or less distinctly barred (nar- 

 rowly) with darker brown or dusky; under tail-coverts dull white, 

 more or less tinged or intermixed with rusty brown and irregularly 

 barred with black; maxilla dusky brown or blackish, with paler tomia; 

 mandible paler brownish; iris brown; legs and feet light brownish (in 

 dried skins). 



Adults in autumn and winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 plumage, but coloration slightly deeper, the brown of upper parts 

 sometimes approaching chestnut-brown. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but flanks and under tail-coverts 

 plain russet, ot light russet-brown, and superciliar}' streak obsolete; 

 chest sometimes (more rarely throat also) flecked with brown or dusky. 



Adult wiafe.— Length (skins), 107-115 (111); wing, 49-53 (50.7); tail, 

 40-44 (42.2); exposed culmen, 11-13 (12.4); tarsus, 16.5-18.5 (17.7); 

 middle toe, 11-13 (12)." 



Adult female.— Ijength (skins), 105-111 (109); wing, 47-53 (50.2); 

 tail, 39-43 (41.3); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.2); tarsus, 17-18 (17.4); 

 middle toe, 11.5-13 (12.2).* 



Eastern United States and Canada; north to New Brunswick (Grand 

 Falls), Maine (Oxford County), Ontario (Hamilton, Muskoka, etc.), 

 Michigan (Wequetonsing; Mackinac Island), etc. ; west to Indiana (Knox 

 County) and Kentucky' (Fulton County); wintering chiefly in the Gulf 

 States, but extending through eastern Texas (Nueces Bay, December 1; 

 Alice, October 5; Santa Rosa, September 27) to eastern Mexico (Alta 

 Mira,'' Tamaulipas, April 8). 



Troglodytes sedon Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 52, pi. 107 (North America; 

 no special locality designated); Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 

 506. — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 187; Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ii, 1826, 92; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 11.— Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., i, 1831, 427; v, 1839, 470, pi. 83; Synopsis, 1839, 75; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., ii, 1841, 125, pi. 120.— (?)Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, 312 

 (Wisconsin). — Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 84. — Putnam, Proc. 

 Essex Inst, i, 1856, 208 (Massachusetts). — Haymond, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1856, 288 (Indiana).— Vekkill, Proc. Essex Inst, iii, 1862, 149 

 (Oxford Oo., Maine). — Baikd, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 138, part (Carlisle, 

 Pennsylvania; District of Columbia; Macon, Georgia; Cape Florida, and 

 Indian Key, Florida). — McIlwraith, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 88 (Hamil- 

 ton, Ontario). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 149, part, pi. 9, fig. 5. — Langdon, Birds Cincinnati, 1877, 4 (rare; common 

 at Columbus). 



ITroglodyles] mdon CouEs, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 87. 



Troglodytes aedon Peaeody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 314. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 475.— Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 222.— 

 Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 367, part (Pennsylvania; District 

 of Columbia; Florida); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 270.— CouES, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 49; Birds Northwest, 1874, 32, part— Allen, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 265, excl. syn. part (e. Florida, winter); Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., i, 1886, 260 (Massachusetts).— Brewsper, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 iii, 1878,21 (descr. young) .—Covert, Birds Washtenaw Co., Mich., 1881, 

 176 (summer resident).— Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 227 



« Ten specimens. <> Six specimens. <-' The only extralimital specimen seen by me. 



