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EEVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



A. Tail and wings about equal. 



u. Beneath grayish-white. Crissum and flanks dis- 

 tinctly barred. Wing coverts spotted with whit- 

 ish. Dark bars of tail about half the width of 

 their interspaces. 



First primary nearly half the longest. Color 



above dark-brown, rufous towards tail 

 Wing similar. Above paler brown 

 First primary half the second. Above paler 



brown 



Somewhat similar to aidon, but darker. Sides 

 of head dark, without obscure superciliary 



streak 



b. Beneath all over yellowish-brown. Crissum band- 

 ed ; flanks indistinctly so or not at all. Wing 

 coverts not spotted. Dark bars of tail more 

 numerous, about equal to their light inter- 

 spaces. Inside of wings plain.' 



First primary little more than half the second. 

 Beneath darker fulvous. Bars of flanks in- 

 appreciable 

 First primary more than half the longest. 

 Beneath pale fulvous. Flanks quite dis- 

 tinctly barred 



e. Throat and breast dark yellowish-brown, con- 

 trasting with the whitish belly and strongly 

 barred flanks. Inside of wings banded. Bars 

 on tail one-fourth their interspaces. Wing 

 coverts spotted, and scapulars banded with 

 whitish ........ 



B. Tail very short ; only about two-thirds the wing. 

 u. Pale reddish-brown ; dusky bars of upper parts 



with whitish spots or interspaces 

 b. Dark rufous above and below ; upper parts with 

 few or almost no whitish spots 



sedon. 



sedon, var. aztecus. 



parkmanni. 



americanvs. 



intermedius. 



inguietus. 



brunneicoltis. 



ky emails, 



hyemaliSj var. 



jtacijicus. 



a. Troglodytes. 



Troglodytes aedon. 



Troglodytes sedon, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 52, pi. cvii. — Ib. 

 Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1819, 506.— Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 366.— 

 ScLATER, Catal. 1861, 22, no. 145. — Hylemathrous sedon, Cab. Jour. 

 1860, 407. 



' The South American species resemble those mentioned in this division; 

 but beneath are either banded slightly on the crissum only, or not at all even 

 there. 



