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Adult female.—Length (skin), 126; wing, 53;. tail, 35.5; exposed 

 culmen, 17; tarsus, 19; middle toe, 13.5.« 

 Island of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. 



Thryothorus grenadensis Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i, July, 1878, 161 

 (Grenada, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 

 1879, 268 (habits; descr. nest), 486.— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 

 1881, 228.— Cory, Auk., iii, 1886, 25; Birds W. I., 1889, 39; Cat. W. I. 

 Birds, 1892, 18, 120, 134.— Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 611 

 (habits; descr. nest and eggs). 



IThryothorm} grenadensis Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 7. 



Troglodytes grenadensis Obekholsbr, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, no. 1354, Jan. 

 23, 1904, 210 (crit.). 



TROGLODYTES MARTINICENSIS (Sclater). 

 MARTINiaUE WREN. 



Similar to T. guadeloupensis, but larger (except tail, which is 

 shorter) and color of upper parts much duller; similar in larger size to 

 T. grenadensis, but upper parts much duller, more grayish, brown, 

 flanks paler cinnamon, and under tail-coverts barred with black and 

 tipped with white. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above brown (between prouts brown and 

 sepia or bistre), darker (deep to dark sepia) on pileum, brighter on 

 rump and upper tail-coverts, the back and scapulars usually narrowly, 

 but indistinctly, barred with dusky; rump with ^ few guttate or 

 wedge-shaped spots or streaks of white, the feathers dark slate color 

 basally; greater wing-coverts, secondaries, and tail narrowly barred 

 with blackish or dusky; primaries dusky, their outer webs spotted with 

 cinnamon or dull brownish white; sides of head (including an indistinct 

 superciliary stripe) and under parts buily cinnamon, deeper and 

 browner on flanks, which are sometimes faintly barred with darker; 

 under tail-coverts tipped with paler (sometimes with white) and 

 broadly barred with blackish or dusky; maxilla blackish brown or 

 dusky horn color, with paler tomia; mandible pale brownish or dull 

 yellowish (in dried skins); legs and feet brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult 7nale.— Length, (skins), 110-117 (113.5); wing, 56-59 (57.8); 

 tail, 38-40 (38.7); exposed culmen, 17-17.5 (17.2); tarsus, 20.5-21.5 

 (21); middle toe, 13.5-15 (14.8).* 



Adult female.— Liength (skins), 105-108 (106.5); wing, 53; tail, 35.5; 

 exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 19.5-20 (19.7); middle toe, 14.5." 



Island of Martinique, Lesser Antilles. 



«One specimen (the type). The three other adults examined are not sexed. 

 Their measurements areas follows: Length (skins), 110-112 (110.7); wing, 54-56.5 

 (55.2); tail, 38-39 (38.7); exposed culmen, 17-18 (17.5); tarsus, 20; middle toe, 

 14-14.5 (14.3). 



6 Three specimens. 



"Two specimens. 



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