T. hyemalis.
a. Size of ædon except for shorter tail, wing about 2.00; culmen very straight. Hab. Aleutian Islands … var. alascensis.
b. Much smaller than ædon, wing about 1.75.
Pale reddish-brown; dusky bars of upper parts with whitish spots or interspaces. Hab. Eastern Province United States; Cordova? … var. hyemalis.
Dark rufous above and below; upper parts with few or almost no whitish spots. Hab. Pacific Province North America. … var. pacificus.
Troglodytes ædon, Vieill.
HOUSE WREN; WOOD WREN.
Troglodytes ædon, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 52, pl. cvii.—Ib. Nouv. Dict. XXXIV, 1819, 506.—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 366; Rev. 138.—Sclater, Catal. 1861, 22, No. 145.—Maynard, B. E. Mass. Hylemathrous ædon, Cab. Jour. 1860, 407. Sylvia domestica, Wilson, Am. Orn. I, 1808, 129, pl. vii. Troglodytes fulvus, Nutt. Man. I, 1832, 422. ? Troglodytes americanus, Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 452; V, 1839, 469, pl. clxxix.—Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, 123, pl. cxix.—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 368; Rev. I, 141.
Other figures: Aud. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, pl. lxxxiii.—Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, pl. cxx.
Sp. Char. Tail and wings about equal. Bill shorter than the head. Above reddish-brown, darker towards the head, brighter on the rump. The feathers everywhere, except on the head and neck, barred with dusky; obscurely so on the back, and still less on the rump. All the tail-feathers barred from the base; the contrast more vivid on the exterior one. Beneath pale fulvous-white, tinged with light brownish across the breast; the posterior parts rather dark brown, obscurely banded. Under tail-coverts whitish, with dusky bars. An indistinct line over the eye, eyelids, and loral region, whitish. Cheeks brown, streaked with whitish. Length, 4.90; wing, 2.08; tail, 2.00.