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cc. Darker and duller brown above, the pileum and hindneck sooty brown; tail 

 darker brown, more narrowly and less regularly l)arred with dusky; l)ill 

 larger (exposed culmen 14-16). (Mountains of Santa Marta, Colombia, 

 3,000 to 8,000 feet altitude. ) Henicorhina hilaris bangsi (extralimital)« 



HENICORHINA PROSTHELEUCA PROSTHELEUCA (Sclater). 

 SCLATER'S WOOD WREN. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum dull brown or grayish brown, becom- 

 ing black laterall}^ the brown-tippod feathers black beneath exposed 

 portion; back and scapulars uniform chestnut-brown, becoming bright 

 chestnut on rump and upper tail-coverts; tail broadly barred with 

 ])lack and light chestnut or russet, the black bars usually the wider; 

 remiges broadly barred with black and chestnut-brown or russet, the 

 bars of nearlj" equal width on secondaries, the black bars broader on 

 primaries, where the interspaces are paler and grayer brown; greater 

 coverts blackish, with outer webs broadly edged with brownish (vary- 

 ing from chestnut-brown to brownish gra}'), and often tipped with a 

 small spot of white; middle coverts blackish, brownish, or grayish, 

 also often with a small white spot at tip; lesser coverts brown or gray, 

 with concealed portion dusky; a conspicuous narrow white superciliary 

 stripe, somewhat broken b}^ black edgings to the feathers; lores duskv; 

 a broad postocular stripe of black, involving the upper half (approxi- 

 mately) of auricular region; suborbital region and lower portion of 

 auricular region streaked with black and white in varying relative 

 amovmt; sides of neck l)Iack, with conspicuous guttate streaks of 

 white; malar region white, the feathers usually narrowly margined 

 with l)lack; a more or less distinct narrow submalar streak of black: 

 chin, throat, chest, and median portion of breast and abdomen white; 

 sides of chest and breast gray; flanks russet or russet- brown; under 

 tail-coverts light russet or cinnamon, with paler (sometimes whitish) 

 tip, sometimes marked with a small subterminal spot of dusky; 

 axillars and luider wing-coverts grayish white or pale gray; bill 

 t)lack, the mandible sometimes more brownish; iris brown;-' legs and 

 feet brown or dusky in dried skins, dark plumbeous in life.* 



aHenicorhina leucophrys (not Troglodytes leucophrys Tschudi) Bangs, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 160, 181 (Pueblo Viejo, San Francisco, Palomina, and San 

 Miguel, Province of Santa Marta, Colombia); Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, i, 1899, 

 S3, 84 (crit.; descr.); Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 180 (Valparaiso and 

 El Libano, Santa Marta, Colombia). — Henicorhina hilaris bangsi Pidgway, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash., xvi, Nov. 30, 1903, 168 (San Sebastian, Santa Marta, Colombia; coll. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus.). 



It is possible that Troglodytes guUalus Hartlaub (Syst. Verz. d. Ges. Mus. Brem., 

 1844, 28), said to be from Colombia, may be this form, but I have not been able to 

 consult the description. If it should prove to be the same, then, of course, the three 

 forms would recjuire to be called 11. guttata guttata (for //. h. bangsi), II. guttata 

 anachoreta, and //. guttata hilaris, respectively. 



^ Sumichrast, manuscript on label. 



