It has a stronger buff eyebrow stripe and black eyestripe than the house wren. The type species was subsequently designated as the house wren ("Troglodytes aedon"). It resembles the house wren, but is brighter with broad yellow-buff supercilia. This small, poorly known wren somewhat resembles a house wren, but its upperparts are grey. The house wren ("Troglodytes aedon") is a very small songbird of the wren family, Troglodytidae.