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1. Upper parts more or less barred crosswise; wings, tail and flanks fully 



barred ; tail not fan shaped (4) 



1. Upper parts streaked lengthwise; flanks scarcely barred; marsh wrens; 



tail not fan shaped (6) 



1. Upper parts dotted with dusky and whitish spots; tail broad and fan 



shaped (8) 



2. Tail brownish, dist ; nctly barred, shorter than w : ng; above redd : sh 



brown Carolina Wren. 



2. Tail blackish, not fully barred, longer than wing; above grayish 



brown (3) 



3. Darker, more brownish above; beneath soiled white, flanks more brown- 

 ish ; smaller Bewick Wren. 



3. Paler, more grayish above; beneath pure white, flanks scarcely brownish: 



larger Texas Bewick Wren. 



4. Tail much shorter than wings; above bright cinnamon, below pale 



cinnamon, heavily barred Winter Wren. 



4. Tail as long as wings ; above pale cinnamon, below gray washed 



with brownish, lightly barred (5) 



5. Darker, more reddish brown above, the bars obscure; darker below. 



strongly brownish.' House Wren. 



5. Paler, more grayish brown above, the bars distinct; paler, almost white, 



below. . Western House Wren. 



6. Crown streaked with white; bill under \ inch long 



Short-billed Marsh Wren. 



6. Crown not streaked ; bill i inch or more long (7) 



7. Bars on middle tail feathers and both tail-coverts indistinct or lacking, 



Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



7. Bars on middle tail feathers and tail-coverts distinct, continuous; 



paler Interior Tule Wren. 



8. Belly, rump, and tail rusty; back rusty brown; throat white 



Canyon Wren. 



8. Whole under parts whitish; back grayish brown, rump rusty 

 Rock Wren. 



715. *Salpinctes_ obsoletus (Say) — Rock Wren. 



An abundant breeder in the Pine ridge country of northwest 

 Nebraska, south through Scott's Bluff and Banner to Kimball and 

 Cheyenne counties, east through Dawes and Sheridan counties to 

 the Minnechaduza and Gorden canyons in Cherry county, breeding 

 in the rim-rocks in June. Aughey records finding a nest in an old 

 slab pile near Dakota City, June 3,1865, and another in an old stump 

 along Salt creek in June, 1875, but recent observers have noted it as 

 a migrant only in eastern Nebraska. Neligh, West Point, Lincoln — 

 migrating in late April and early May. 



[717a. Catherpes mexicanus conspersus Ridgway — Canyon Wren. 



In Sioux county in » canyon on White river between Glen and 

 Andrews, Aug. 12, 1903, Bruner saw a wren which he identified as 



