Plate CCCLX. Fig. 4. Female.
Upper parts dull yellowish-brown, and, excepting the rump, barred with greyish-brown; wings similarly barred, excepting the primaries; secondary coverts with a small white spot near the tip; tail-coverts and two middle tail-feathers barred with dusky; the rest broadly tipped with pale yellowish-red, undulated with dusky, behind which is a broad band of brownish-black, the remaining or basal part banded like the central feathers, the outer with four reddish-white spots or bars on the outer web, the intervals being brownish-black, and a spot of white on the inner web; lower parts greyish-white, tinged with sienna, the sides inclining to yellowish-red; lower tail-coverts barred with dusky.
Female, 6, wing 211/12.
Rocky Mountains and Columbia River. Abundant. Migratory.
Troglodytes obsoleta, Say, Long's Exped.
Troglodytes obsoleta, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 6.
Rocky Mountain Wren, Troglodytes obsoleta, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 435.
Rock Wren, Troglodytes obsoletus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 443.
117. 2. Troglodytes ludovicianus, Bonap. Great Carolina Wren.
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, 51/2, 71/2.
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.