Plate XVIII. Male.
Bill more slender than that of the last, nearly as long as the head,
slightly arched; wing very short, with the fifth quill longest, but
little exceeding the fourth and sixth; tail rather long, graduated.
Upper parts dusky brown tinged with grey; lower greyish-white, the
sides tinged with brown; a band of yellowish-white from the upper
mandible over the eye to half-way down the neck; quills and
wing-coverts barred with dusky, as are the tail-coverts and two middle
tail-feathers; outer web of the lateral tail-feathers, and the
terminal portions of the others whitish, barred with black, their
middle parts black, toward the base barred with reddish-brown.
_Male_, 5, 6-1/2.
From Louisiana to Columbia River on the one hand, and to Pennsylvania
on the other, principally on high grounds. Not very common. Migratory.
Bewick's Wren, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 434.
Bewick's Wren, Troglodytes Bewickii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p.
96; v. v. p. 467.