. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. TROGLODYTIDiE, WEENS.—GEN. 23, 24. 87 >^" iT^ pi. 8 ; NuTT., i, 422 ; Aud., ii, 125, pi. 120; Bd., 3G7. Very variable in precise tint, distinctness of the barring, etc.; old spring l)irds are apt to ha grayer and clearer below; young fall specimens are usually lirowner. T. americanus Aud., as I have said (Proc. Essex Inst, v, 18G7, 278
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. TROGLODYTIDiE, WEENS.—GEN. 23, 24. 87 >^" iT^ pi. 8 ; NuTT., i, 422 ; Aud., ii, 125, pi. 120; Bd., 3G7. Very variable in precise tint, distinctness of the barring, etc.; old spring l)irds are apt to ha grayer and clearer below; young fall specimens are usually lirowner. T. americanus Aud., as I have said (Proc. Essex Inst, v, 18G7, 278 ; specimen in my cabinet, personally identified by Audubon ; sec also jNIaynard, Guide, p. 95), is not otherwise different, and I shall now drop it. . iEDON. Var. parlitnanni Aud. On an average, grayer and paler. Western United States (see Codes, Proc. Acad. Phil., 186G, p. 43). Bd., .307 ; Coop., 71. 23. Genus ANORTHUEA Rennie. Winter Wren. Deep brown, darkest on head, brightest on rump and tail, obscurely waved with dusky and sometimes witli whitish also; tail like rump; wings dusky, edged with color of back, and dark barred; several outer primaries also whitish barred; a superciliary line, and ob- scure streaks on sides of head and neck, whitish ; below pale brown ; belly, flanks and under tail coverts strongly barred with dusky and whitish. Only 4-4^ long; extent 6J-6J ; wing 2 or less, tail 1^ or less—so short that the outstretched feet reach beyond Fig 30 WniterWien. Tarsus and middle toe and claw together about 1^^; bill §. North America; United States in winter. Sylvia /lyemalis, Wils., i, 139, pi. 8, f. 6; Trofj. hyemalis, Aud., ii, 128, pi. 121; Bd., 3G9 ; Tror/. eurojKcus, Nutt., i, 427. Var. ^;ac(/?ctjs is described ; Bd., Rev. 145. . troglodytes. r(5)(v Alaskan Wren. "Form like that of the winter wren ;" size and colors nearly the same; darker; bill larger; culmen, gape and gonj^s almost per- fectly straight—-latter slightly ascending. St. Geo
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