. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . ed with distinct reddish-brown dots,usually massed at the large end or wreathed around it. (Coues.) They measure to .77 inches in length by .66 to .66 in : Rock Wren, Rocky Mountain Wren. —Pelsenzaunkonig (German).SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Troglodytes obsoktus Say (1823). Myiothera obsoleta Bonap. (1825). Thryotborus obsoletus Bonap. (1838). SALPINCTES OBSOLETUS Cab. (1847).
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . ed with distinct reddish-brown dots,usually massed at the large end or wreathed around it. (Coues.) They measure to .77 inches in length by .66 to .66 in : Rock Wren, Rocky Mountain Wren. —Pelsenzaunkonig (German).SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Troglodytes obsoktus Say (1823). Myiothera obsoleta Bonap. (1825). Thryotborus obsoletus Bonap. (1838). SALPINCTES OBSOLETUS Cab. (1847).DESCRIPTION: Adult: Above, pale brownish-gray, minutely dotted everywhere with blackish and whitishpoints together, and usually showing obsolete wavy bars of dusky. Rump, sides of the body, andposterior part of the belly and under tail-coverts cinnamon-brown. Rest of under parts dirty white;throat and breast obsoletely streaked, and the under tail-coverts barred, with dusky. Middle tail-feathers brownish, with many dark bars; the other with cinnamon tips, then with a broad black bar;the outer one alternately barred with brownish and , to 6 inches; wing, ; tail, inches. IX Mm. CMimmis Mr:xi(;y\Nrs conspkusus uidoNv. PELS ENZAU N Wren. CANON WREN. Catherpes mexicanus conspersus Ridgway. Plate IX. WHE AUTHOR of this work esteems himself especially happy in having obtainedthe assistance of Prof Robert Ridgway, of the Smithsonian Institution, who isequally prominent as a scientific ornithologist and an artist. He accomplished the taskof bringing a number of our birds before the readers eyes perfectly true to nature, bothin form and colors, and all his pictures showing, moreover, an ideal apprehensiveperception. A most excellent representation is the one of our Canon Wren, which hehad sufficient opportunity to observe in the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. As I never had an opportunity of observing our western birds, I beg leave, in thei
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