BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLK AMERICA. 629 



Avhitisli. or unitonn dccj) olnc, with only the sido ot' head and part 

 of tliroat vi'iy luirrowly streaked with wliitisii. 



AihiJt mule.—VA^w^^XXx (.skins). 110-12U (115.:')); wing, 57-59 (57.0); 

 tail. 87.5-40 (.38.6); exposed culnien. L.5-IS (l*i.4); tarsus, 20-22 (21); 

 middle toe, 13-15 (13.9).'^ 



Adult fenudii. — Leny-th (skins). l(>7-115 (IILS); wino-, 54-6(> (56.6); 

 tail. 37-39 (37.6); exposed rulinen. U'*; tarsus, -M: middle toe, 13.* 



Kastern Nicaraiiua (Greytown; Los Sa])al()s; Rio Escondido) and 

 C'ostii Riea (Rio Frio; Talamanea; Sio-uerres; Pacuare; Juiz; Jimenez; 

 Turrialba; Tucurrique; Santa Ko.sa; San Carlos; Val; Cervantes) to 

 Isthmus of Panama (Santiago, Veragua; Cascajal, Province of Code). 



Thryotlionis thoracicus Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 580 (Tucurrique, 

 Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1867, 134 (Santiago, Veragua). 



Thryophilus thoradcus La\vrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868,93 (Tucurrique and 

 Santa Rosa, Costa Rica). — Boi'cakd, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 51 (San 

 Carlos, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Aiu., Aves, i, 1880, 

 86, pi. 6, figs. 1, 2.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 215.— Zeledon, 

 Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 3; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 105; Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 105 (Jimenez and Pacuare, Costa Rica). — 

 Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 398 (Los Sabalos, Nicaragua).— 

 CiiERKiE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 520 (Costa Rica; crit.) . — Richmond, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 483 (Rio P^scondido, Nicaragua; habits). 



[Tlirijophilus'] ^/foracicus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 7. 



[Trof/Ioch/tcs'] thoraciais Gray, Handdist, i, 1869, 190, no. 2591. 



Thri/udiorus brunneus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, Oct., 1865, 179 

 (Greytown, Nicaragua; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ; = young). 



THRYOPHILUS PLEUROSTICTUS PLEUROSTICTUS (Sclater). 

 SCLATER'S BANDED WREN. 



Adults (sexes cdll'e). — Above plain cinnamon-brown, duller (approach- 

 ing broccoli brown) on pileum, brighter on rumi). the upper tail-coverts 

 deep cinnamon or russet; tail deep cinnamon or russet, barred, more 

 or less regularly, with dusky; wings similar in color to back, the rem- 

 eges barred with grayish dusky or dull l)lackish, the greater coverts 

 less distinctly barred (bars sometimes obsolete); alula dusky, edged 

 with white or whitish; outermost middle coverts sometimes with a 

 whitish terminal spot and subternnnal dusky bar; a conspicuous super- 

 ciliary' stripe of wdiite; a broad postocular streak or stripe of brown; 

 sides of neck broadly streaked with white and black; loral region pale 

 grayish; suborbital region, malar region and auricular region (except 

 upper portion) white, the last (sometimes th(> tirst also) narrowly 

 streaked (more or less distinctly) with dusky; under parts white, the 

 under tail-coverts, sides, and Haidvs broadl}- barred or banded with 

 black, these markings sometimes more broken and irregular on ante- 



« Eight specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



