BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 595 



TROGLODYTES GUADELOUPENSIS (Cory). 

 GITABEXOUPE WREN. 



Similar to T. rufescens, but duller in color, the upper parts less 

 rufescent brown (nearer prouts brown or deep mummy brown than 

 Vandyke or burnt-umber), the under parts more buflfy cinnamon; 

 under tail-coverts tipped with white, and flanks usually more or less 

 barred with dusky. 



Adult male.— Lmgth (skins), 100-127 (115)f wing, 50.5-53.5 (51.6);* 

 tail, 36.5-42.0 (38.8);" exposed culmen, 15-16.5 (15.5);'^ tarsus, 17.5- 

 19 (18.3);<^ middle toe, 12.5-14 (13.5). <« 



Adult female.— ~Length (skins), 101-117 (107); wing, 48-49 (48.5); 

 tail, 39-39.5 (39); exposed culmen, 15-16 (15.3); tarsus, 18.5-19 (18.8); 

 middle toe, 13-13.5 (13.3)." 



Island of Guadeloupe (Grande Terre), Lesser Antilles. 



Thryothorus rufescens (not of Lawrence, 1877) Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1879,, 453 (Guadeloupe), 486, part (Guadeloupe).— Cory, W. I., 1885, 7, 

 part (Guadeloupe); Auk, ill, 1886, 24, part (Guadeloupe); Birds W. I., 

 1889, 38, part (Guadeloupe) ; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 120, part (Guade- 

 loupe). 



[^Thryothorus'] rufescens Coky, List Birds W. L, 1885, 7, part (Guadeloupe). 



Thryothorus guadeloupensis Cory, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 381 (Grande Terre, Guade- 

 loupe, Leaser Antilles; coll. C. B. Cory); v, 1888, 157; Ibis, 1886, 474 (Grande 

 Terre); Birds W. I., 1889, 286; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 120, 133, 156. 



Troglodytes guadeloupensis Obeeholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, no. 1354, 

 - Jan 23, 1904, 209 (crit.). 



Genus OLBIORCHILUS Oberholser. 



Anorthura (not of Rennie, 1831/) of Authors. 



(?) Nannus Billberq, Synop. Faunae Scand., i, pt. 2, 1828, 57. (Type, Motac'dla 



troglodytes Linnjeus? 9. ) 

 .Olbwrchilus^ Oberholser, Auk, xix, no. 2, April, 1902, 177. (Type, Motacilla 



troglodytes Linnseus. ) 



Very small Troglod3'tid8e (wing less than 55 mm.) resembling Tro- 

 glodytes, but with the tail not more than two-thirds as long as wing 

 and shorter than combined length of tarsus and middle toe (with 

 claw), and with the bill slenderly straight-subulate. 



"Seven specimens. 



''Four specimens. 



"Six specimens. 



(^ Eight specimens. 



«Three specimens. 



/See Newton, Dictionary of Birds, 1896, 1051; Howe, Auk, xix, 1902, 89; Oberhol- 

 ser, Auk, xix, 1902, 175. 



Q This work not seen by anyone in America, and there is doubt as to whether the 

 author based the new name exclusively on M. troglodytes or, like Rennie in the case 

 of Anorthura, merely gave the name Nannus as a substitute for Troglodytes. 



AFrom "oXl3io, felix; opx^^oi, regulus.'' 



