Wrens (Troglodytidae)

Brown-throated Wren (Troglodytes brunneicollis) - HBW 10, p. 435

French: Troglodyte à gorge brune German: Fahlkehl-Zaunkönig Spanish: Chochín Gorgicafé
Other common names: Brown-throated House Wren

Taxonomy: Troglodytes brunneicollis P. L. Sclater, 1858, La Parada, six leagues [c. 25-30 km] from Oaxaca city, Mexico.
Forms a superspecies with T. aedon, T. musculus, T. tanneri, T. beani and T. cobbi; all have often been treated as conspecific, as suggested by field observations, but recent DNA analyses indicate that present species and first two are three separate species; the others, isolated on islands, likely also to be distinct. Intergrades with T. aedon in S Arizona. Birds from NC Mexico were separated as race compositus, but apparently on basis of merely individual variation. Three subspecies recognized.

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