230 BIRDS—TROGLODYTID&. 
differences are not distinctive of age, sex or season. I have found both 
forms in the same brood of young before they were fully fledged, the con- 
trast being as decided as in young birds of the Gray and Red varieties of 
the Mottled Owl. 
GeENos TROGLODYTES. 
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Bill shorter than the head, compressed, decurved, Wings about equal to the tail. 
Hind claw shorter than the rest of toe. Toes reaching to the end of tail. 
TROGLODYTES DOMESTICUS (Bartram) Cs. 
Hlouse Wren. 
Troglodytes aedon, ReaD, Proce. Phila. Acad. Nat Sci., vi, 1853, 396.—WuHkrEaTtoN, Ohio 
Agric. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 365; Reprint, 7; Food of Birds, etce., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 
1874, 1875, 563; Reprint, 3. 
Troglodytes edon, LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1377, 4; Journ. Cin. Soe. Nat. Hist., 3, 
1875, 111; Reprint, 2; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 170; Re- 
print, 4. 
Motacilla domestica, BARTRAM, Trav. Fla., i, 1791, 9232. 
Troglodyies domestica, COURS, Proc. Phila, Acad., 1875, 351. 
Troglodytes edon, VisiLLOT, Orn. Am. Sept., 11, 1807, 52. 
Troglodytes aedon, PEABODY, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 314. 
Above brown, brighter behind; below rusty brown or grayish brown or even grayish 
white ; everywhere waved with a darker shade, very plainly on wings, tail, flanks and 
under tail coverts; breast apt to be darker than either throat or belly. Length 4%; 
wings and tail about 2. 
Habitat, Eastern United States and British Provinces; west to Dakota, Nebraska, 
Kansas, ete. 
THRYOTHORUS BEWICKIL (Aud.) Bp. 
Bewick’s Wren. 
Thryothorus bewickti, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep for 1e60, 379 (probable) ; Repriut, 1861, 
7; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 562; Reprint, 3.—LANGD:N, Cat. 
Birds of Cin., 1877, 4. 
Thryothorus bewickii var. bewicktt, LANGDON, Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soe. Nat. Hist., i, 
1879, 170; Reprint, 4: 
Troglodytes bewickii, AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 96. 
Thryothorus bewickii, BUTCHER, Proc. Philad. Acad., 1868, 149. 
Thryothorus bewickii var. bewickti, BAIRD, Rev. Am. Birds, 1864, 126. 
Tail longer than the wings. Grayish brown ; below ashy white; superciliary line 
white; wings dusky, taintly waved; under tail coverts dark barred ; two middle tail 
feathers like back, with numerous fine black bars, others black, several of the lateral 
ones with white or gray spots or tips. Length 54; wing about 2; tail 24. 
Habitat, United States, Southern. ; 
Bewick’s Wren was named as an Obio bird by myselfin 1861, on the supposed authority 
of Dr. Kirtland and Mr. R K. Winslow, of Cleveland. It now seems that this was a 
mistake, the bird never having been taken in Northern Chio. Mr. Langdon, very properly 
gives it in his list, one specimen having been taken and another seen by Mr. ER. Quick at 
Brookville, Indiana, a few miles from the Ohio line. It almost certainly occurs in South- 
western Ohio, but must be positively identified before it can be considered an Ohio bird. 
