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horn color. Another killed at the same locality: length, 5|; extent, 7; bill, .75. These 
measurements show a considerable difference in the size of different individuals. I found the 
young of the year capable of flight by the middle of July.—S. 
TROGLODYTES PARKMANNI, Aud. 
Farkmann’s Wren. 
Troglodytes parkmanni, Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 310, not figured.— Id. Syn. 1839,76 .—Id. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 
133; pi. 122.— Baird, Gen. Bep. Birds, p. 367. 
Sp. Ch. —Similar in size and general appearance to T. aedon, with light line over the eye, &c.; the colors, however, grayer, 
the upper parts dark brown, the lower grayish white, with little or none of the rufous tinge of particular regions. Tail and 
wings about equal. Bill shorter than the head. Above brown, darker towards the head, brighter on the rump. The 
feathers everywhere, except on the head and neck, barred with dusky ; obscurely so on the hack, and still less on the rump. 
All the tail feathers barred from the base ; the contrast more vivid on the exterior ones. Under tail coverts whitish, with 
dusky bars. An indistinct line over the eye, eyelids, and loral region, whitish. Cheeks brown, streaked with whitish. 
Eab .—Western America, from the high central plains and Upper Missouri, to the Pacific. 
“Parkmann’s wren” of Audubon is common about Puget Sound, where it seems to take the 
place of the house wren, though less familiar. Its habits and song are very similar, but it 
seems to frequent only the vicinity of woods and piles of logs, not seeking a dwelling about 
buildings. It arrives about April 20. 
I noticed wrens at Vancouver in June, 1853, which I took for the house wren, though the 
song struck me as different. One built in a horse’s skull stuck upon a fence. I am uncertain 
whether they were not the above species, which may entirely replace the house wren in the 
Territory.—C. 
I obtained several specimens of this bird at Fort Steilacoom; the birds differed so in meas¬ 
urements, that, when collected, I was frequently in doubt whether they were identical in 
species. 
Smithsonian 
Original number. 
Length. 
Stretch of wings. 
Cat. No. 
7135. 
127 
4. 25 
6.50 
7136. 
363 
5.50 
7.00 
7137.. 
380 S 
5. 25 
9.00 
The voice of this species is harsh and unmusical.—S. 
TROGLODYTES HYEMALIS, V i e i 11 o t. 
Winter Wren. 
Sylvia troglodytes , Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 139 ; pi. viii, fig. 6. 
Troglodytes hyemalis, Vieillox, Nouv. Diet. XXXIV, 1819, 514.— Bonap. List, 1838 .—Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 222.— 
Sw. F. B. Am. Ill, 831, 318.— Aud. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 430 ; pi. 360.— Ib. Syn. 1839, 76.— 
Ib. Birds, Am. II, 1841, 128 ; pi. 121.— Baird, Gen. Bep. Birds, p. 369. 
Troglodytes europaeus, Bon. Ohs. Wils. 1825; No. 137.— Nuttall, Man. 1, 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 
