51() BULLETUS" r)0, UNITED STATES NATIOlSrAL MUSEUM. 



(Orizaba; Jal^pa;" Jico), and Oaxaca (Llano Verde; La Parada: Mount 

 Zempoaltepec). Mexico (Valley- of Mexico)?* 



Campylorhi/nchus megalopterus (not of Lafresnaye) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1858, 298 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 363 ( " Jalapa, " « Vera Cruz), 

 371 (Llano Verde, Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 17 (s. Mexico).— Shaepk, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. IVIus., vi, 1881, 199 (La Parada, Oaxaca). 



CampylorJiynchus jKiUescens (not of Lafresnaye) Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 

 101 (Orizaba; ".Talapa"«).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 544 

 (alpine reg. Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — 8alvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1880, 69. 



ICampylorhyiicJius'] pallescens SchATER and Sa'lxi's, Xoni. A v. Neotr., 1873, 5. 



C[ampylorhynchus'] pallescens Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1889, 235, in text ("hills 

 surrounding the Valley of Mexico"). 



Heleodytes nelsoni Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, Sept. 30, 1903, 111 

 (Jalapa, « Vera Cruz, s. e. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 



HELEODYTES GUTTATUS (Gould). 

 YUCATAN CACTUS WREN. 



Mo.st like II. lriH(nneica2>!Jhi>< ajfinls^ the under parts very similar, 

 but under tail-coverts barred, instead of spotted, with black; pileum 

 grayish brown, with feathers dusky centrally: general color of back 

 nnicli more grayish, the black streaks much broader; lateral rectrices 

 broadh^ tipped with dull white, but not barred with white, except 

 sometimes (on outermost rectrix oidy) toward end. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck gra3ish brown, each 

 feather dusk}" centrally, producing a squamate appearance; general 

 color of back, scapulars, and rump grayish brown or brownish g'ra}', 

 this l)roken b}" conspicuous, sharply detined broad white streaks, each 

 margined along each side by a bi'oad black streak; upper tail-coverts 

 barred with black or dusky; middle rectrices pale grayish l)rown or 

 brownish gra}', l)roadly barred or l)anded with duskv; other rectrices 

 dusky, broadly tipped with white, the white terminal area becoming 

 ]iale brownish gray at tip. often forming a distinct narrow terminal 

 l)and; outer web of lateral rectrix broadly barred or transversely 

 spotted with white, these bars or spots l)ecoming more grayish basally; 

 outer webs of other rectrices broadly ])arred with black and pale 

 brownish gray; wings conspicuously ])arred and spotted with brown- 

 ish gray, white, and blackish; a broad superciliary stripe of white; 

 lores grayish; a broad postocular streak of gravish l)rown; rest of 

 sides of head, with under pai'ts, white, the Hanks and anal region tinged 

 with brownish ])utf; auricular region linely (sometimes obsoletely) 



" Professor Sumichrast is of the opinion that Jalapa, as a locality for this species, 

 is ;ui error, the specimens so labeled probably coming from a higher altitude. 



'' A specimen said to be from the Valley of jMexico is precisely like A'era Cruz 

 (rxamj)les. 



