BIRDS LI0TRICH1DAE TROGLODYTES HYEMALIS. 
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List of specimens. 
Catal. No. 
Age. 
Locality. 
Whence obtained. 
Collected by— 
2951 
190G 
7255 
Eastern United States 
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TROGLODYTES (ANORTHURA) HYEMALIS, Vieillot. 
Winter Wren. 
Sylvia troglodytes, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 139 ; pi. viii, fig. G. 
Troglodytes hy emails, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1819, 514.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 222 — 
Sw. F. B. Am. II, 1831,; 318— Aud. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838,430 ; pi. 300.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 
76— Ib. Birds. Am. II, 1841, 128; pi. 121. 
Troglodytes europaeus, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825 ; No. 137.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 427. 
Sp. Ch. — Bill very straight, slender, and conical ; shorter than the head. Tail considerably shorter than the wings, which 
reach to its middle. Upper parts reddish brown ; becoming brighter to the rump and tail ; everywhere, except on the head and 
upper part of the back, with transverse bars of dusky and of lighter. Scapulars and wing coverts with spots of white. 
Beneath pale reddish brown, barred on the posterior half of the body with dusky and whitish, and spotted with white more 
anteriorly ; outer web of primaries similarly spotted with pale brownish white. An indistinct pale lino over the eye. Length, 
about 4 inches ; wing, 1.66 ; tail, 1.26. 
Hab. — North America generally . 
Western specimens of this species appear to be of a darker reddish brown generally than in 
the eastern, and perhaps a little larger. Northern ones are decidedly largest. 
This wren is so exceedingly like the European Troglodytes parvulus, 1 that I candidly confess 
my inability to distinguish the single specimen of the latter before me (9216 from Nurnberg,) 
from American skins. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
127 
1379 
10206 
7143 
7144 
7145 
7146 
7147 
4601 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Carlisle, Pa 
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Cairo, Illinois 
West Northfield, 111.. 
Ft. Steilacoom, W. T. 
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do 
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Shoalwater bay, W. T. 
Columbia river 
Oct. 13, 1840 
April 22, 1844 
April 24 
Mar. — , 185G 
Dec. 23, 1853 
Feb. — 
Mar. — , 1856 
May, 22, 1854 
Jan. 27, 1856 
Whence obtained. 
S. F. Baird.. 
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R. Kennicott. 
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Gov. Stevens. 
, do 
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, do 
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Orig. Collected by- 
No. 
267 Dr. Suckley. 
do.... 
254 | do 
264 I do 
Dr. Cooper.. 
Dr. Suckley. 
75 
208 
Length 
Stretch Wing 
of wings. 
S.83 5.83 1.66 
3. 08 
4. 25 
5.25 
6.25 
1 The synonymes of the European wrsn are — 
Troglodytes parvdlus, Koch. 
Motacilla troglodytes, Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Anorthura troglodytes, Rennie. 
Troglodytes parvulus, Koch. 
Troglodytes europaeus, Cuv. Vieillot . 
Troglodytes regulus, Meter. 
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