592 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Young. — Similar to adults, but white of under parts more or less 

 strongly suffused with cinnamon-buff, under tail-coverts immaculate 

 cinnamon or tawny, and (sometimes at least) feathers of chest or throat 

 very narrowly and faintly margined with dusky. 



Adult w«Ze.— Length (skins), 117-137 (126.3); wing, 59-60 (59.2); 

 tail, 40-15.5 (43.4); exposed culmen, 16-18 (17); tarsus, 30-21.5 (20.8); 

 middle toe, 14.5-15.5 (14.9).« 



Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. 

 Tkryothonis musicus Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i, June 1878, 148 (St. 

 Vincent, Lesser Antilles; coll. G. N. Lawrence); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 

 1878, 189, 486 (habits).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 223.— Cory, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 24; Ibis, 1886, 472 (St. Vincent); Birds W. L, 1889, 18; Cat. 

 W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 120, 134. 

 [ Thryothorus] musicus Cory, List Birds W. 1. , 1885, 7. 



Troglodytes musicus Obekholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, no. 1354, Jan. 23, 

 1904, 209 (crit). 



TROGLODYTES GRENADENSIS (Lawrence). 

 GRENADA WREN. 



Similar in large size to T. martinicensls, but upper parts much 

 brighter, more tawny, brown, flanks deeper rufous-cinnamon or cin- 

 namon-rufous, and under tail-coverts plain cinnamon-rufous; similar 

 in coloration to T. ru^escens, but wing and l)ill longer and tail shorter, 

 and coloration decidedly lighter; similar in coloration of upper parts 

 to T. mcsoleucus^ but without white on under parts. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain rufous-brown (between russet and 

 mars brown), brighter (approaching burnt-umber) on rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, duller on pileum; greater Aving-co verts narrowly and 

 rather indistinctly barred with dusky, the secondaries and tail nar- 

 rowly and distinctly barred with blackish; primaries more broadly 

 barred with blackish, their terminal portion plain dusky; a rather dis- 

 tinct superciliary stripe of cinnamon-buff; lores and eyelids similar 

 but more whitish; sides of head otherwise light cinnamon-buff, more 

 or less (always indistinctl}") flecked and streaked with brown, the 

 upper portion of auricular region mostly brown, forming an indistinct 

 postocular streak; chin and throat pale cinnamon-buff, deepening on 

 chest into deep cinnamon-buff', the remaining under parts still deeper 

 in color, the sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts russet; under tail- 

 coverts sometimes immaculate, usually with more or less distinct bars 

 or spots of dusk}^ on terminal portion of the longer feathers; maxilla 

 dusky brown, with paler tomia; mandible dull light yellowish (in dried 

 .skins); legs and feet light brownish (in dried skins). 



Young.- — Similar to adults, but feathers of chest very faintly mar- 

 gined terminally with dusky, and under tail-coverts always immaculate. 



« Five specimens. I have not seen a specimen determined as female. 



