510 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



HELEODYTES ZONATUS ZONATUS (Lesson). 

 BANDED CACTUS WREN. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Feathers of pileum black centrally, broadly 

 margined with pale brownish <^ray (smoke gray to buff}^ drab-gray), 

 producing a more or less distinctly squamatc appearance; hindneck 

 broadly streaked with black and buffy white or very pale buff; back 

 and scapulars broadl}- l)arred or banded with black and buffy white or 

 pale tawny-buff", sometimes strongly suffused with the latter; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts more or less pronouncedly tawny, more or less 

 distinctlj^ barred with black or dusky; middle rectrices pale graj'ish 

 brown, with more or less distinct indications of black or dusky broad 

 spots along or near margin, sometimes distinctly (though not continu- 

 ousl}') banded, rarely inmiaculate; remaining rectrices black, their 

 outer webs with distinct broad spots of pale grayish buff', or dull 

 whitish, forming regular bands across the tail (interrupted by middle 

 rectrices), their inner webs with corresponding spots, decreasing in 

 size and distinctness toward the middle rectrices; wings black, nar- 

 rowly banded with white or buff'y, the black interspaces at least 

 twice as wide as the whitish or buffy bands; a superciliary stripe of 

 white or buffy white; a more or less distinct narrow postocular streak 

 of dusky, or a broader one of light grayish brown streaked with black; 

 suborbital, auricular, and malar regions white, the last narrowly 

 streaked with black, the rest (especiall}' malar region) usuall}" with 

 narrow squamate markings of the same; chin, throat, chest, and breast 

 white, passing into dull tawn^^-ochraceous on abdomen, sides, flanks, 

 anal region, and under tail-coverts; throat, chest, and breast marked 

 with rounded, ovate, cordate, or broadl}^ guttate spots of black, the 

 remaining (tawny) under parts usually immaculate, but occasionally 

 with a few black spots or other markings on flanks, abdomen, or 

 under tail-coverts; maxilla blackish or dusk}' horn color, with paler 

 tomia; mandil)le dull buffy whitish or ver}^ pale butf}^ brownish (in 

 dried skins); iris brown," cinnamon-red,^ or gra}';*^ legs and feet pale 

 yellowish horn color (in dried skins). 



Young. — Ver}' different from adults; pileum uniform black; back 

 and scapulars dull black marked with streaks or broad guttate spots of 

 light brown (raw umber to wood brown), the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts unifonnl}' of the latter color; wings and tail as in adults but 

 the paler bauds light brown or cinnamon instead of whitish; super- 

 ciliar}^ stripe dull brownish buff or pale Isabella color; a black post- 

 ocular streak; sides of head below 63^0 and postocular streak, chin, 

 throat, and chest, dull brownish white, sometimes mottled with sooty 

 grayish; rest of under parts plain dull light cinnamon. 



«Dr. C. Sartorius, manuscript. &Prof. F. Sumichrast. t' Rev. H. Th. Heyde, 

 manuscript. 



