Plate CLXXIX. Male.
Bill of moderate length, nearly straight; wings short, with the third,
fourth, and fifth quills almost equal, the fourth longest; tail rather
long, much rounded. Upper parts dark reddish-brown, duller and tinged
with grey on the head, indistinctly barred with dusky; lower parts
brownish-grey, faintly barred on the fore neck, breast, and sides, the
abdomen and lower tail-coverts distinctly barred; feathers of the
cheeks light grey tipped with brown, wings and tail undulatingly
banded with blackish-brown.
_Male_, 4-7/8, 6-3/4.
Northern parts of Vermont and Maine, during summer. Winters in South
Carolina. Not very rare.
Wood-Wren, Troglodytes Americana. Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p.
452; v. v. p. 469.