. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . — 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. lilsti-iliiitujit: — Interior deserts of southwestern United States south to Chihuahua,Sonora, and northeastern California. (The Auk, xix. 143.). ROCK WREN WRENS, THRASHERS, ETC. 1I., less sharply defined, spots on under parts smaller, and colors more : , wi
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . — 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. lilsti-iliiitujit: — Interior deserts of southwestern United States south to Chihuahua,Sonora, and northeastern California. (The Auk, xix. 143.). ROCK WREN WRENS, THRASHERS, ETC. 1I., less sharply defined, spots on under parts smaller, and colors more : , wing- :5.:il)-.!..lit. tail exposed culmen . Distribution. — Resident in Lower Sonorau zone, from southern Texaswest to southern California, and from southwestern Utah to central Mexico. — 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 buffy often hiddenby reddish brown spotting. Brunneicapillus 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, dmt, chut, chut, have littleto suggest its small brown, sweet-voiced relatives. Its pose, how-ever, is like that of the Carolina wren, for it sings on top of abare branch, with head up and tail hanging. It is a conspicuousbird in that strange
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