. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . Cactus Adults, — Throat and breast white, heavily marked ivith black roundish ^,»!sp--;--5-~ .. spots, in sharp contrast to buffy brown *^^^&^^^^* ^^J.^*^^ mir belly, which is sparsely marked with —- -^^^l^^^^^l/^^T^^^^Ill^f^S^^^^ linear spots; superciliary white; upper . , parts brown, streaked on back with ^^•^^^- black and white; tail with middle feathers brownish, spotted with black, the rest black, only outside feather barred w ith white for whole
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . Cactus Adults, — Throat and breast white, heavily marked ivith black roundish ^,»!sp--;--5-~ .. spots, in sharp contrast to buffy brown *^^^&^^^^* ^^J.^*^^ mir belly, which is sparsely marked with —- -^^^l^^^^^l/^^T^^^^Ill^f^S^^^^ linear spots; superciliary white; upper . , parts brown, streaked on back with ^^•^^^- black and white; tail with middle feathers brownish, spotted with black, the rest black, only outside feather barred w ith white for whole length. Young: similar, but streaks on back 1 Heleodytes brunneicapillus couesi (Sharpe). Texan Cactus Wren. Coloration dark, throat mainly black, back narrowly striped with white. Distribution. — Rio Grande region of Texas, south over Mexican tableland. {The Auk,xix. 143.) • Heleodytes brunneicapillus anthonyi Mearns. Desert Cactus Wren. Coloration pallid, tail mostly black. Distribution. — Interior deserts of southwestern United States south to Chihuahua,Sonora, and northeastern California. {The Auk, xix. 143.). ROCK WREN WRENS, THRASHERS, ETC. 443 less sharply defined, spots on under parts smaller, and colors more : ), wing (), tail ;);0, exposed culmen . Distribution. — Resident in Lower Sonoran zone, from southern Texaswest to southern California, and from southwestern Utah to central Mexico. Nest. — In cactus, yucca, or thorny bush, bulky, flask-shaped, in hori-zontal position, entrance at mouth of flask; made of sticks and coarsestraws, lined with feathers. Eggs: 4 to 7. whitish or bnffy often hiddenby reddish brown spotting-. Brunneicapillufi seems on first acquaintance, in a cactus and mes-quite thicket, the most unwren-like of wrens. Its big size, black-ish color, and grating, monotonous chut, chut, chut, chut, have littleto suggest its small brown, sweet-voiced relatives. Its pose, how-ever, is like th
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