Color Key to North American Birds Part 75

=705. Brown Thrasher= (_Toxostoma rufum_). L. 11.5; W. 4.1; B. .95.

_Ads._ Above, wings and tail rufous or rusty brown; below white heavily streaked with blackish; two white wing-bars. _Notes._ Calls, a sharp kissing note and a clearly whistled _wheeu_; song, loud, musical, varied, finished and rich in tone.

Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from the Gulf States north to Maine and Manitoba; winters from Virginia and the lower Mississippi Valley southward.

=706. Sennett Thrasher= (_Toxostoma longirostre sennetti_). L. 11.5; W. 4; B. 1.1. _Ads._ Similar to No. 705, but wing shorter, bill longer, upperparts less bright, streaks below blacker. _Notes._ Resemble those of No. 705, but song even finer.

Range.--Southeastern Texas from Corpus Christi south into northeastern Mexico.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 713.]

=713? Texan Cactus Wren= (_Heleodytes brunneicapillus couesi_).

L. 8.5. Largest of our Wrens. _Ads._ Above brown, head darker, back streaked with white; below, _including chin_, heavily marked with black. _Notes._ A loud, harsh _cack-cack-cack-cack_.

Range.--"Rio Grande region of Texas and adjoining Mexican states, west to the eastern Desert Tract, south over the Mexican tableland."

(Mearns.)

=713a. Bryant Cactus Wren= (_H. b. bryanti_). Differs from No. 713b, in heavier spotting below, and in perfectly barred tail and slight wash of rufous on belly and flanks. (Anthony.)

Range.--"Northern Lower California and southern California, west of the Coast Range." (Mearns.)

=713b. St. Lucas Cactus Wren= (_H. b. affinis_). Resembling No. 713c, but all the tail-feathers, except middle pair, barred with white for their whole length; flanks white or very pale buff, with large rounded or tear-shaped spots. (Ridgw.)

Range.--Southern Lower California.

=713c? Desert Cactus Wren= (_H. b. anthonyi_). Similar to No. 713, but paler above; chin _without_ spots.

Range.--Interior deserts of the southwestern United States, south into Mexico and northeastern Lower California. (Mearns.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: 755.]

=755. Wood Thrush= (_Hylocichla mustelina_). L. 8.2. _Ads._ Above bright cinnamon, _brightest on head_; below white with _large_, _rounded_ black spots. _Notes._ Calls, a sharp _pit-pit_, a liquid _quirt_, and a soft _tut-tut-tut_; song, both flute-like and bell-like; sung with frequent pauses and low notes.

Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Virginia and Kansas to Vermont, Quebec, and Minnesota; winters in Central America.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 715.]

=715. Rock Wren= (_Salpinctes obsoletus_). L. 5.7. _Ads._ Rump rusty; tail tipped and _outer_ feathers barred with pale rusty; above grayish brown lightly speckled with blackish; below, including belly, whitish; breast obscurely streaked with brownish. _Notes._ Calls, Wren-like; song, sweet, varied and Mockingbird-like.

Range.--"Western United States, from the western border of the Plains to the Pacific, north to Dakota, Montana, and British Columbia; south on the tablelands of Mexico and Guatemala to Salvador; breeds throughout its range, and is resident from about the southern, border of the United States southward." (A.O.U.)

=716. Guadalupe Rock Wren= (_Salpinctes guadeloupensis_). Resembling No. 715, but darker and browner, with chest, etc., more distinctly speckled; wings and tail shorter; bill and tarsi longer; W. 2.6; T.

2.2. (Ridgw.)

Range.--Guadalupe Island, Lower California.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 717.]

=717. White-throated Wren= (_Catherpes mexica.n.u.s albifrons_). L. 6; W. 2.7. _Ads._ _Belly_, rump, and _all_ tail-feathers rusty; tail barred with black; throat white; back rusty brown.

Range.--Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas and southward into northeastern Mexico.

=717a. Canon Wren= (_C. m. conspersus_). Similar to No. 717, but smaller, W. 2.3; tail-bars narrower. _Notes._ Call, a "ringing _d.i.n.k_;" song, a series of about seven, loud, ringing whistles uttered in a regularly descending scale.

Range.--"Great Basin and Rocky Mountain region, from the Sierra Nevada and Cascades eastward to southern Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and western Texas: south on the tableland of Mexico to Aguas Calientes; breeds nearly throughout its range; resident in southern parts of its United States distribution." (A.O.U.)

=717b. Dotted Canon Wren= (_C. m. punctulatus_). Similar to No. 717a, but darker; more nearly resembling No. 717 in colors, but smaller in size.

Range.--Pacific coast from Lower California north to Oregon; resident.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 718.]

=718. Carolina Wren= (_Thryothorus ludovicia.n.u.s_). L. 5.5; W. 2.3; B. .6. _Ads._ Above bright rust-brown; below washed with same, throat and line over eye white. _Notes._ Calls, Wren-like; song, a great variety of loud, musical whistles, _whee-udel_, _whee-udel_, _whee-udel_ or _tea-kettle_, _tea-kettle_, _tea-kettle_, etc.

Range--Eastern United States; breeds from the Gulf States north to the lower Hudson Valley (and casually Ma.s.sachusetts), northern Illinois, and southern Iowa; resident.

=718a. Florida Wren= (_T. l. miamensis_). Similar to No. 718, but darker above, more deeply colored below; larger, W. 2.4; B. .7.

Range.--Florida, from Pasco and Brevard counties southward.

=718b. Lomita Wren= (_T. l. lomitensis_). Similar to No. 718, but browner, less rufous above, rump with more white spots; below paler, the flanks usually barred.

Range.--Southeastern Texas.

[Ill.u.s.tration: 719.]

=719. Bewick Wren= (_Thryomanes bewickii_). L. 5; W. 2.2; T. 2.1.

_Ads._ Above rich, dark cinnamon-brown, tail grayer; below grayish white; all but middle pair of tail-feathers _black_, outer ones barred, others tipped with grayish. _Notes._ Call, "a soft, low, _plit_;" song, strongly suggesting that of Song Sparrow.

Range.--Mississippi Valley west to the Plains, north to Lat. 40, east to Alleghanies and locally to Atlantic States from southern New Jersey to Georgia.

=719a. Vigors Wren= (_T. b. spilurus_). Similar to No. 719, but smaller, W. 2; upperparts less cinnamon or reddish.

Range.--California, west of Sierra Nevada and south to Santa Cruz Island. (Bailey.)

=719b. Baird Wren= (_T. b. leucogaster_). Similar to No. 719c, but upperparts grayer.

Range.--"Western Texas to southeastern California, and from southern Nevada Utah, and Colorado south over tablelands of Mexico to Zacatecas." (Bailey.)