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$Title{Genus II.--Troglodytes, Cuv.  Wren}
$Subject{Certhianae; Troglodytes; Wren}
$Journal{Birds of America:  Volume II}
$Volume{Vol. 2:113}
$Family{Certhianae}
$Genus{Troglodytes}
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$Common_Name{Wren}
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                       B I R D S   O F   A M E R I C A .

                    By John James Audubon, F. R. SS. L. & E.

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                                   VOL.  II.
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                      GENUS II.--TROGLODYTES, Cuv.  WREN.


     Bill of moderate length, or nearly as long as the head, slender, slightly
arched, much compressed toward the end; upper mandible with the dorsal line
slightly convex, the edges a little inflected toward the end, the notches
slight, the tip rather acute; lower mandible with the angle rather long and
narrow, the outline slightly decurved, the sides erect and convex, the edges
inclinate, the tip acute.  Nostrils oblong, operculate, exposed.  Head oblong;
neck short; body slender.  Feet of ordinary length, rather strong; tarsus longer
than the middle toe, compressed, with eight anterior distinct scutella; toes of
moderate size, the third and fourth united at the base, the first very large,
the lateral nearly equal; claws rather long, moderately arched, much compressed,
very acute.  Plumage soft and blended.  Bristles obsolete.  Wings of moderate
length, or short, convex, much rounded; the first quill very small, the fourth
and fifth longest.  Tail rather short, rounded, of twelve slightly arched, weak,
rounded feathers.