600 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Tlroglodytesl parvulus . . var. hyemalis Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, Jan., 



1874, 367 (Illinois). 

 T[roglodyies} parvulus, var. hyemalis Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 97 



(n. e. Illinois, migrant; habits). 

 Troglodytes parvulus hyemalis Goodb, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 347. 

 Troglodytes europams (not of Vieillot) Bonapaktb, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



iv, 1824, 188; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 93, 440.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. V. S. 



and Can., i, 1832, 427. 

 Olbiorchilus hiemalis Memalis Obbkholsbr, Auk, xix, April, 1902, 178. 

 Olbiorchilus hiemalis American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xix, 



1902, 329.— Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 128 (Moose Faetory). 



OLBIORCHILUS HIEMALIS PACIFICUS (Baird) . 

 WESTERN WIIfTER WRElf. 



Similar to 0. h. Memalis, but darker and more richly colored; 

 brown of upper parts darker, more rusty, more uniform, the back, 

 etc., much less distinctly barred, often quite uniform; color of throat, 

 chest, etc. , much deeper and brighter, more tawny-cinnamon or light 

 russet; bill str'aighter and more slender. 



Adult ?waZe.— Length (skins), 88-97 (92); wing, 44^49.5 (46.5); tail, 

 28-33.5 (30.3); exposed culmen, 10-12.5 (11.6); tarsus, 17-19.5 (18); 

 middle toe; 11.5-13.5 (12. 8). « 

 ' A(lidt fe7nale.—ljength (skins), 85-99 (92); wing, 43.5-47.5 (45.4); 

 tail, 28-31 (29.7); exposed culmen, 10-12.5 (11.6); tarsus, 17-18.5 

 (17.9); middle toe, 11.5-13.5 (12.5). 



Western North America; breeding from southern Coast Range in 

 California northward to southern Alaska (Prince of Wales Island; 

 Mitkof Island; Yakutat; Juneau; Farragut Bay; Howkan), eastward 

 along northern border of United States to Montana (Java; Columbia 

 Falls); southward in winter to southern (California (Fort Tejon; San 

 Buenaventura), western Nevada (Truckee Valley), and Colorado ? 



Troglodites europseus (not Troglodytes europssus Vieillot) Ornithological Commit- 

 tee, Journ. Ae. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 193 (Columbia E.). 



Troglodytes (Anorthura) hyemalis (not T. hiemalis Vieillot) Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv. , ix, 1858, 369, part (Fort Steilacoom and Shoalwater Bay, Wash- 

 ington; Columbia E.). 



Troglodytes hyemalis Baird, Cat. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 273, part. — Xantus, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci.. Phila., xi, 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, California).— Cooper and 

 SucKLEY, Rep. Pacific R. E. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 191 (Coast Range and 

 Fort Steilacoom, Washington).— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 421 (Vancouver I.).— 

 Ball and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 280 (Sitka, 

 Alaska).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 73. 



(?) Troglodytes hiemalis Cooke, Bull. 37, Col. State Agric. Coll., 1897, 121 (Colo- 

 rado; resident, breeding at 8,000 ft. ). 



Troglodytes hiemalis Silloway, Bull. Univ. Mont., No. 3, Biol. Ser., No. 1, 1901, 

 71 (Flathead Lake, etc., Montana, breeding). 



(7) Troglodytes {'Anorthura) hyemalis Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 78. 



Anorthura troglodytes var. hyemalis Coues, Key, 1872, 351, part; Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 33, part. 



« Ten specimens. 



