Troglodytes (trogloditez)

[NL.: see trog lodyte.] 1. In ornith.: ( a ) A genus of wrens, type of the family Troglodytidæ, based by Vieillot in 1807 on T. aëdon. The type is taken to be the common wren of Europe, T. europæus or T. parvulus, formerly Syl via troglodytes. The name, erroneous in fact, was changed by Rennie in 1831 to Anorthura. It has been used by different writers for nearly all the birds of the family Troglo Winter Wren ( Troglodytes hiemal is). Troglodytes; the wrens. The family is of no fixed limit or satisfactory definition. The birds referred to it, in its usual acceptation, are mainly American, and very numerous in tropical and subtropical America. These are well distinguished from most New World pa erines, excepting from the mocking-birds, thrashers, and the like, toward which they grade so closely, through such forms as the cactus-wrens, for example, that they have often been a ociated with them in the family Liotrichidæ (the mockers, etc., being then removed from Turdidæ to enter into this a ociation). But the Old World wren-like birds have so many and varied relationships that they have thus far proved entirely unmanageable. The whole of them, therefore, together with the American forms, have been thrown in the ornithological waste-basket ( Timeliidæ ). See wren, and cuts under Campylorhyn chus, marsh- wren, Proëpyga, rock-wren, Tesia, Thryotho Troglodytinæ (trog-lod-i-ti'nē), n. pl. [NL., rus, and Troglodytes. IMG:content-0921.png:[blocks in formation] +-ism.] The state or con dition of trog lodytes; the habit of liv ing in caves. See troglo dyte. Trogon (tro'gon), n. [NL., * Gr. τρώγων, ppr. of τρώ γειν, gnaw, chew.] 1. IMG:content-0922.png:[blocks in formation] ed.-2. [1. c.] Any bird of the genus Trogon in a broad sense, as a curucui or quetzal. The most brilliant and splendid of these birds, and one of the most gorgeous of all the feathered tribes, is the famous quetzal, or sacred bird, of the ancient inhabitants of Central America, variously known as the long-tailed, paradise-, or peacock-trogon, Trogon paradise us, T. pav on in us, Calurus resplend ens, Pharomacrus mocinno, and by other names. The body is about as large as a pigeon's, but the long upper tail coverts project beyond the tail for two feet or more, forming a graceful spray like train. The bird is rich golden green above, and mostly bright-crimson below.