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KEVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



Troglodytes arundinaceus, Vibill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 65, pi. cviii. 



(Certainly this species : the habits those of C. palustris.') 

 Certhia caroUniana, WiLsos, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 61, pi. xii, fig. 5. 

 Tliri/othorus littoralis, Vibill. Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1819, 56. 

 Thnjothorus louisianse, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1840, 262. 

 Additional figures : Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, pi. 77.— Ib. Birds. Am. II, 

 1841, pi. 117. 

 Hah. Eastern Province United States, from New York southward to the Gulf. 



Tliryotliorus berlandieri. 



Thryothorus berlandieri, Couch MSS. Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 362, pi. 

 Ixxxiii, fig. 1 (New Leon). 



Hab. Valley of Rio Grande. 



.No additional specimens of this species have been noticed since 

 the publication of the "Birds of North America." The differences 

 there indicated appear sufficient to distinguish the species from the 

 allied T. ludovicianus. The cha,racters of the two are as follows : — 



Common Chakactehs. — Above reddish-brown ; rump, exposed surface of 

 wings and tail rather faintly barred with black. Crissum strongly barred 

 with the same. White supra-ocular stripe bordered above by black. Sides 

 of neck much spotted with the same. Wing coverts spotted with whitish. 

 Beneath whitish, with an occasional wash of reddish. 



Sides plain. Bill from nostril, .45 . . . . ludovicianus. 

 Beneath rufous ; lighter on throat and on median line. 

 Sides obsoletely barred with dusky. Bill from nos- 

 tril. 56 . , . . . , , . . berlandieri. 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 No. 



Collec- 

 tor's 

 No. 



7,122 

 7,133 

 7,121 



142 

 143 

 IS) 



Sex 

 and 

 Age. 



Locality. 



New Lei)n, Mex. 

 Sau Diego, Mex. 



When 

 Collected. 



April, 1853. 

 Mar. 1853. 



(7,122.) Eyes brown. 



Received from 



Lt. Couch. 



Collected by 



