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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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horter than the middle. Bill dusky brown, with the basal edges of the upper and two-thirds of thelower mandible pale. Tarsi greyish-yellow; toes and claws light brownish.The general colour of the upper parts is reddish-brown, tinged with grey.There is a white spot near the tips of the posterior dorsal feathers. Thesecondary coverts, and the first small coverts, have each a white spot at thetip. The wing-coverts and quills are banded with blackish-brown and dullbrownish-red, the bands of the latter colour paler on the outer quills; theinner webs and tips of all the quills plain brown, as in the other species. Allthe upper parts are more faintly barred in the same manner. On the tail aretwelve dusky bars, as in T. hyemalis. A dull whitish band from the uppermandible over the eye; the cheeks whitish, with the basil margins of thefeathers brown; the lower parts are dull brownish-white, tinged with grey,the sides brownish, barred with dusky; the fore neck and breast with faint N?25 PI 123.
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/ Vrir.j// . 2 r.iuair ,,/,i/.1.3/ 1 - MARSH WREN. I35 indications of bars; the lower wing-coverts and axillaries greyish-white, someof the former with dusky markings; the lower tail-coverts brownish-white,barred with dusky. Length to end of tail 4T22 inches, to end of wings 3^, bill along the ridgeY2, wing from flexure 2i; tail 1T^; tarsus T82; hind toe yf, its claw T%;middle toe yg-, its claw -ff. Feeling perfectly confident that this species is distinct from any other, andnot finding it anywhere described, I have named it after my most kind,generous, and highly talented friend George Parkman, Esq., M. D., ofBoston, as an indication of the esteem in which I hold him, and of thegratitude which I ever cherish towards him. Parkmans Wren, Troglodytes Parkmanii, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 310. Nuttall,Man., vol. i. p. 483. (Second Edition.) MARSH WREN. -^Troglodytes palustris, Wils.PLATE CXXIIL—Male, Female, and Nest. The haunts of this interesting little bird are, in the Middle Distr

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