. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. iMria^Mii^ if 198 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. TEOOLODTTES SJiOTt,—VieiUot. The House Wren. Troglodyte* adm, Vleillot. Ois. Am. Sept., II. (l«07j 62. Aud. Orn Biog., I. (1881)427! V. (1839)470. Sylvia domeitica, Wilson. Am. Cm., I. (1808) 129. rroi/Wi/«e»/Wm, Nuttall. Man., L (1832) 422. Dmcbiptios. Tail
. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. iMria^Mii^ if 198 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. TEOOLODTTES SJiOTt,—VieiUot. The House Wren. Troglodyte* adm, Vleillot. Ois. Am. Sept., II. (l«07j 62. Aud. Orn Biog., I. (1881)427! V. (1839)470. Sylvia domeitica, Wilson. Am. Cm., I. (1808) 129. rroi/Wi/«e»/Wm, Nuttall. Man., L (1832) 422. Dmcbiptios. Tail and wing* about equal; bill shorter than the head; above reddish-brown, darker towards the head, brighter on the rump; the feathers everj-where, except on the head and neck, barred with dusky; obscurely so on the back, and still less on the rump; all the tail fcatheu barred from tho base; the contrast more vivid on the exterior ones; beneath pale fulvous-white, tinged with light-brownish across the breast; the posterior parU rather dark-brown, obscurely banded; under tail coverU whiUsh, with dusky bars; an indistinct line over the eye, eyeUds, and loral region, whitish; cheeks brown, streaked with whiUsh. Length, four and ninety one-hundredthi inches; wing, two and eight one-hun- dredths inches; tail, two inches. iToA. —Eastern United States to the Missouri, or to the high central plains. The bill of this species, even from Uie extreme base, is shorter than the head. The wing is very nearly equal to the tail, and reaches over iU basal forrth. The tail is moderately graduated, the lateral feather about .32 of an inch shorter Uian the middle. The outstretched feet reach about to the end of the tail. There are a few whitish spots on the wing coverts. Tliia interesting and well-known little bird is very gen- erally distributed throughout New England. It arrives from the Sou ,h as early as the first week in May, and soon appears about its old haunts in the gar- den and orchar
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