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white or pinkish, finely speckled or sprinkled on or around larger end with 
reddish brown and lilac. 
The bewickii group are strongly marked 
wrens with their striking superciliary, light 
spotty cornered tails, and melodious songs. 
The song of the Vigors wren, when heard 
in southern California with the Parkman, 
though not so ebullient, is richer, sweeter, 
more musical, and altogether of decidedly 
superior quality. 
Where there are houses, Thryomanes nests 
like the house wrens in odd nooks and cor¬ 
ners about buildings, but otherwise on 
brushy hillsides and in * such congenial 
places. One Texan Bewick was found by 
Mr. Bailey nesting in a tin can turned over Fi s- 572 - Vi g° rs Wren, 
a fence post, the entrance being through an enlarged bullet hole. 
719b. T. b. leucogaster (Baird). Baird Wren. 
Upper parts pale grayish brown , tinged with rufous on rump ; middle tail 
feathers brown, barred with black, rest of feathers mainly black, the three 
outer pairs with grayish white tips; superciliary white; under parts 
whitish, purer on throat; under tail coverts heavily barred with black. 
Wing: 2.20, tail 2.23, bill .55. 
Distribution. — Western Texas to southeastern California, and from 
southern Nevada, Utah, and Colorado south over tablelands of Mexico to 
Zacatecas. 
719c. T. b. cryptus Oberh. Texas Bewick Wren. 
Superciliary white ; upper parts rich warm brown , more rufous on rump ; 
tail with middle feathers and bases of outer webs of all but outside pair 
hair brown , barred with black; rest of tail black, faintly barred with 
lighter; two outer pairs of feathers tipped with grayish white; under 
parts grayish. Wing: 2.25, tail 2.24, exposed culmen .55. 
Distribution. — Texas, except extreme western corner ; Nuevo Leon and 
Tamaulipas, Mexico, and probably Kansas, Indian Territory, and Okla¬ 
homa ; migratory north of Texas. 
719d. T. b. charienturus Oberh. Southwest Bewick Wren. 
Superciliary white ; upper parts grayish brown , slightly rufous on rump ; 
tail black except for middle feathers which are hair brown, barred with 
black, outside feathers tipped with gray, outer webs barred with dingy 
white, rest of feathers tipped with brown ; under parts white or grayish ; 
crissum heavily barred with black. Wing: 2.03, tail 2.02, exposed cul¬ 
men .54. 4 
Distribution. — Resident from Pasadena along the coast region of Cali¬ 
fornia to Lower California ; Santa Catalina Island. 
719e. T. b. calophonus Oberh. Northwest Bewick Wren. 
Superciliary white ; upper parts rich dark brown , slightly deeper on 
head ; tail black , middle feathers sepia brown barred with black, the rest 
