Part 18

Certhia familiaris. Brown Creeper. Fairly common transient and winter resident throughout state.

Subspecies in Kansas: C. f. americana Bonaparte.

* Troglodytes aedon. House Wren. Transient and summer resident, common in east to uncommon in west.

Subspecies in Kansas: T. a. parkmanii Audubon.

Troglodytes troglodytes. Winter Wren. Rare or uncommon transient and winter resident throughout state.

Subspecies in Kansas: T. t. hiemalis Vieillot.

Thryomanes bewickii. Bewick Wren. Resident, common in south, rare in north; status poorly known. Nesting records from Shawnee, Johnson, and Montgomery counties.

Subspecies in Kansas: T. b. bewickii (Audubon) in northern and northeastern part, T. b. cryptus Oberholser in rest of state. (T. b. niceae Sutton, a questionably valid subspecies, has been reported from Meade and Morton counties.)

* Thryothorus ludovicianus. Carolina Wren. Resident, common in south, less common to north and west. One record from Hamilton County; status in northwest unknown.

Subspecies in Kansas: T. l. ludovicianus (Latham).

* Telmatodytes palustris. Long-billed Marsh Wren. Uncommon transient throughout state; known as a breeding bird only from Doniphan County, where Linsdale found several nests and collected a juvenile (KU 12869) with half-grown tail, August 31, 1922.

Subspecies in Kansas: T. p. dissaeptus (Bangs).

* Cistothorus platensis. Short-billed Marsh Wren. Uncommon transient and irregular summer resident in east, no records from west. One breeding record: male (KU 29665), female (KU 29666), and their nest with four eggs, eight miles west of Lawrence, Douglas County, August 30, 1950, H. B. Tordoff and G. P. Young.

Subspecies in Kansas: C. p. stellaris (Naumann).

* Salpinctes obsoletus. Rock Wren. Common transient and summer resident in west, rare transient in east; eastern limit of breeding range not known. Nests found in Hamilton, Scott, and Logan counties.

Subspecies in Kansas: S. o. obsoletus (Say).

* Mimus polyglottos. Mockingbird. Resident throughout state, less common in north, especially in winter.

Subspecies in Kansas: M. p. polyglottos (Linnaeus) in east, M. p. leucopterus (Vigors) in west (most specimens from Kansas are intermediate between the two subspecies).

* Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus). Catbird. Common transient and summer resident throughout state.

No subspecies recognized.

* Toxostoma rufum. Brown Thrasher. Common transient and summer resident throughout state; occasional winter resident at least in east.

Subspecies in Kansas: T. r. rufum (Linnaeus) in east, T. r. longicauda Baird in west.

Oreoscoptes montanus (Townsend). Sage Thrasher. Rare transient in west. Two unsexed specimens (KU 31941, 31942), 1 mile south of Holcomb, Finney County, September 20 and October 2, 1954, Marvin D. Schwilling. A third individual seen in Morton County, September 27, 1954, and a fourth in Kearny County, March 23, 1955, by Schwilling.

No subspecies recognized.

* Turdus migratorius. Robin. Common transient and summer resident; locally common winter resident.

Subspecies in Kansas: T. m. migratorius Linnaeus breeds in most of state but birds in southeast are intermediate toward T. m. achrusterus (Batchelder); T. m. propinquus Ridgway occurs in west, at least in migration, and irregularly in other parts of state in winter.

Ixoreus naevius. Varied Thrush. Accidental. One record: specimen (present location unknown) taken at Garden City, Finney County, October 17, 1891, H. W. Menke.

Subspecies in Kansas: Probably I. n. meruloides (Swainson), on geographical grounds.