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C[(imj/)/l(n-hi/nr]ms] hrunneicaplUui< Baikd, I'roc Ac. Nut. Sei. riiila., 185i>, :{04, 

 footnote (diagnosis). — Coues, Key N. Am. JJirds, 2d ed., 1884, 275, ])art. — 

 RiDGWAV, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 547, part. 



Camploryndms briinneicajnllus Henshaw, List Birds Arizona, 1875, 155. 



Heleodytes hrunneicapillus Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 7, May .31, 1893, 180 

 (Hesperia, Kern R., etc., California; Bitter Springs, Vegas Valley, and 

 between Muddy and Virgin rivers, Nevada; Beaverdam Mts. , s. w. Utah). — 

 American Ornithologists' L^nion Committee, Auk, xi, 1894, 48; Check List, 

 2d ed., 1895, no. 713.— Grinnell (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 48 

 (Los Angeles Co., California, resident). 



II\^f'leodyte!i] hru'UneirjipiUus RiD(i\VAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 547, part. 



Heleodytes hrunneicapillus hrunneicapillus Mearns, Auk, xix, Apr., 1902, 141, in 

 text (crit. ). — Grinnell (J.) , Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, June 25, 1902, 68. 



Ca nipylorhynchus couesi Sharpe, (^at. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 196 (type locality 

 not indicated; coll. Salvin & Godman). — Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1884, 422 (reprint of original descr.). 



Heleodytes hrunneicapillus couesi Mearns, Auk, xix, Apr., 1902, 143, 145 (diagnosis; 

 range).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 442, footnote. 



Heleodytes hrunneicapiUus anthouyi Me.\rns, Auk, xix, Apr., 1902, 143, 145 

 (Adonde Siding, S. P. R. R., Arizona; coll. V. S. Nat. Mus.).— Bailey 

 (Florence M.), Haiidl). Birds W. U. S., 1902, 442, footnote. 



HELEODYTES JOCOSUS ( Sclater) . 

 BOUCARD'S CACTUS WREN. 



Most like H. gularu^ but pileum more dusky, under parts more 

 purely white and more profusely spotted, the posterior portions but 

 slightly if at all buH'y, and lores dusky. 



Adults {sexes alike) in late tiiinter^ spring^ and sunimer. — Pileum and 

 nape dark sooty" (the hindneck sometimes brownish), the feathers 

 margined, more or less distinctly, with sepia; extreme lower hindneck 

 and sides of neck conspicuously streaked with Idack and white, the 

 white streaks narrower on hindneck, much l)roader on sides of neck; 

 V)ack, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown (l)etween broccoli 

 and light bistre), the back and scapulars conspicuously variegated 

 with black and white, mostly in form of large, usually transverse, 

 irregular spots of the former and irreg-ular (often triangular) streaks 

 or spots of the latter; rump similarly l)ut less conspicuous!}^ vari- 

 egated, the markings more or less concealed; upper tail-coverts 

 barred with paler l^rown and dusky; middle pair of rectrices and 

 outer web of next pair lig-ht grayish brown barred, more oi- less 

 broadly, with dusky; outer webs of remaining rectrices black, broadly 

 ])arred or transverse!}' spotted with pale grayish brown, becom- 

 ing dull whitish on outermost rectrix, the terminal darker space on 

 each, however, grayish brown, instead of black; inner webs of all 

 but middle pair of rectrices mostly plain duskv, broadly tipped with 

 grayish brown, this preceded by a broad, subterminal band of dull 



« Fading to sepia brown in worn nii<lsunnner specimens. 



