d about the large end with reddish
brown and purplish. Size .65 x .50.

719a. VIGORS'S WREN. _Thryomanes bewicki spilurus._

Range.--Pacific coast of California.

This similar bird to the last has the same general habits and the eggs
are not in any way different from those of Bewick's Wren.

719b. BAIRD'S WREN. _Thryomanes bewicki bairdi._

Range.--Southwestern United States, from western Texas to eastern
California and north to Colorado and Nevada.

Like the two preceding Wrens, this one nests in natural or artificial
cavities, and the four to seven eggs that they lay are precisely alike,
in every respect, to those of the others.

719c. TEXAS WREN. _Thryomanes bewicki cryptus._

Range.--Texas, north in summer to western Kansas.

A very abundant bird in Texas. Nesting habits not unusual nor eggs
distinctive.

719d. SAN DIEGO WREN. _Thryomanes bewicki charienturus._

Range.--Coast of southern California.

719e. SEATTLE WREN. _Thryomanes bewicki calophonus._

Range.--Pacific coast from Oregon to British Columbia.

These last two sub-species have recently been separated from Vigors's
Wren, but their habits and eggs remain the same as those of that
variety.

719.1. SAN CLEMENTE WREN. _Thryomanes leucophrys._

Range.--San Clemente Island, California.

This species is similar to Vigors's Wren but is grayer and paler above.
It is not peculiar in its nesting habits and the eggs are like those of
_bewicki_.

720. GUADALUPE WREN. _Thryomanes brevicauda._

Range.--Guadalupe Island.

A very similar species to the Vigors's Wren; nesting habits and the eggs
are not apt to differ in any respect.

[Illustration 428: Bewick's Wren.]
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721. HOUSE WREN. _Troglodytes aedon._

Range.--North America east of the Mississippi, breeding from the Gulf
north to Manitoba and Ontario; winters in the southern half of the
United States.

This familiar and noisy little Wren is the most abundant and widely
distributed of the Wrens; they are met with on the edges of woods,
swamps, fields, pastures, orchards and very frequently build about
houses, in bird houses or any nook that may suit them; they fill the
cavity of the place they may select with twigs, grass, feathers, plant
down, etc., and lay from five to nine eggs in a set and frequently three
sets a year. The eggs are pinkish white, very profusely and minutely
dotted with pale reddish bro