Plate LXXVIII. Male and Female.
Bill stouter than in the last, nearly as long as the head; wing with
the fourth and fifth quills longest; tail much rounded; upper parts
brownish-red; a yellowish-white streak over the eye, extending far
down the neck, and edged above with dark brown; a broader band of
reddish-brown behind the eye; quills, coverts, and tail barred with
blackish-brown; secondary and first row of small coverts tipped with
white, shafts of the latter also white; throat greyish-white, lower
parts light reddish-buff, deeper behind; lower tail-coverts white,
barred with black. Female lighter above, tinged with grey beneath,
without white on the wing-coverts.
_Male_, 5-1/2, 7-1/2.
From Texas to New York, along the Atlantic coast. In the interior to
the Missouri, and up the Ohio to Pittsburgh. Resident in the Southern
States. Abundant.
Great Carolina Wren, Certhia Caroliniana, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
ii. p. 61.
Troglodytes ludovicianus, Bonap. Syn. p. 93.
Great Carolina Mocking Wren, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 429.
Great Carolina Wren, Troglodytes ludovicianus, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. i. p. 399; v. v. p. 466.