BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 591 



TROGLODYTES MESOLEUCUS ( Sclater). 

 SANTA LUCIA WREN. 



Adiihx {xe.i'cs ((HI;). V\t\)OY parts plain o-rayish l)rown or li(»-ht 

 sopia anteriorly, Itriolitcnin^- posteriorly into riisset-l)ro\vn on ruinj) 

 and ujjper tail-ooverts; rump with rather hirgc roundish concealed 

 spots of white, the feathers dark slate color basall}^; wings and tail 

 brown, narrowly barred (except on smaller Aving-coverts) with dusky, 

 the bars broader on primaries and outermost rectrices; an indistinct 

 superciliary stripe of pale ])uff or buffy whitish; lores and eyelids 

 white; auricular region light brown, streaked with l)utty whitish, its 

 upper portion plain brown, producing a rather distinct postocular 

 streak; malar region and under parts white, passing on sides of neck, 

 sides, and flanks into cinnamon; luider tail-coverts pale cinnamon or 

 cinnamon-bufi^', broadly tipped with white and sparsely barred with 

 dusky, at least on the longer coverts; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 immaculate white; maxilla dusky brown, with paler tomia; mandible 

 dull ])rownish yellow basally (in dried skins), more or less extensively 

 dusky terminally; legs and feet lu'ownish (in dried skins). 



Adidt male. — Length (skins), 103-104 (103.5); wing, 53; tail, 38; 

 exposed culmen, 17; tarsus, 18-18.5 (18.2); middle toe, 13-14 (13.5). « 



Adidt fem.aIe.--'hQn^ih. (skins), 102-107 (104.5); wing, 52-54 (53); 

 tail, 37.5-38.5 (38); exposed culmen, 17; tarsus, 18.5-19 (18.7); middle 

 toe, 13-13.5 (13.2).* 



Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 



Thryothorns mewleucus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, 14 (Santa Lucia, 

 Lesser Antilles; coll. P. L. Sclater); 18S9, .m5.— Allex, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Clul), 

 V, 1880, 166.— Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 223.— Cory, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 25; Birds W. I., 1889, 39; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 19, 120, 133. 



[^Tliryotliorus] mesoleucus Cory, List Birds \V. I., 1885, 7. 



Troglodytes mesoleucus Oberholser, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, no. 1354, Jan. 

 23, 1904, 209 (crit.). 



TROGLODYTES MUSICUS (Lawrence). 

 ST. VINCENT WREN. 



Similai' to T. uicxolencvx, but much larger (except bill), upper parts 

 brighter brown, and lateral inid(M' ]xirts brighter, or more extensively, 

 cinnamon (the br(>ast and abdomiMi often tinginl with that color), the 

 under tail-coverts (lee])(>r ciinianion. not distinctly, if at all. whitish at 

 tips and with dusky bars reduced to spots (usually small), or often alto- 

 gether absent. 



« Two specimens. 



^Tvvo specimens. Ten adults with sex undetermined measure as follows: Length 

 (skins), 106-110.5 (108); wing, 47.5-53.5 (50.4); tail, 33.5-38 (36.3); exposed cul- 

 men, 16-18 (17.2); tarsus, 17-18.5 (18.1j; middle toe, 11.5-13.5 (12.5). 



