526 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Mus., no. 4, 1876, 13 (Dondominguello, Oaxaca). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 66.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 

 193.— Salyin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 75 (Cinco Senores, Oaxaca).— 

 Ferrari-Perez, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 135 (Chietla, Puebla). 

 ICainpylorhj/nchusI jocosus SchXTER and Salvi's, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 5. 



HELEODYTES GULARIS ( Sclater). 

 SPOTTED CACTUS WREN. 



Adnlt.s {sexes alike). — Pileuin and hindneck brown (between mummy 

 brown and prouts brown), the feathers dusky beneath the surface, 

 fading- in midsummer phmiage to paler and grayer brown (between 

 hair brown and isa))ella color), especially on forehead; upper back or 

 extreme lower hindneck black, each feather with a mesial streak of 

 pale butf or buffy white; back and scapulars ])rown (much like color 

 of pileum), variegated with whitish or pale buffy triangular spots 

 (about three on each feather), these usually connected by a narrow 

 (sometimes broad) mesial streak, the space between the whitish or 

 buffy spots largely occupied by more or less transverse spots of black;: 

 rump similar in coloration to back, but markings much less distinct; 

 upper tail-coverts brown, broadly barred with dusky and narrowl}^ 

 (sometimes indistinctly) barred with pale brownish buffy or whitish; 

 four middle rectrices pale grayish brown, narrowly barred or trans- 

 versely spotted with dusk}^; remaining rectrices with inner webs plain 

 dusky, broadly tipped with dull white, this extensively clouded with 

 pale grayish brown and sometimes more or less broken by irregular 

 black markings,^ their outer webs transversely spotted or broadly 

 barred with black and pale buff}^ grayish brown; wings brown, con- 

 spicuously variegated by transverse black spots or bands, the inter- 

 spaces paler and more buffy (sometimes partly whitish) on primaries 

 and larger wing-coverts, the middle coverts with a small terminal tri- 

 angular spot of white; a brOad superciliary stripe of buff' or buff}" 

 white, continued in broken streaks on sides of hindneck; a broad 

 postocular stripe of dark brown, occupying upper half of auricular 

 region; sides of neck ])roadly streaked with dark brown or blackish 

 and buff" or buffy white; suborbital and malar regions and lower half 

 of auricular region white or buffy white, the latter usually finely 

 streaked with dusky; a distinct submalar streak of black; under parts 

 buffy white (more decidedl}^ white in worn breeding plumage), pass- 

 ing into cinnamon-buff' on flanks, anal region, and under tail-coverts, 

 the buffy posterior portions barred with deeper cinnamon-buff or cin- 

 namon-rufous; breast and sides marked with roundish, cordate or 

 broadh' guttate spots of black, these sometimes wanting on median 

 portion of breast, sometimes extending over lower chest; flanks and 



^'Sometimes there are one or two broad bans or transverse spots anterior to the 

 terminal space, and separated from the latter by a black band or spot. 



