BIRDS OK N<»HTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. (iT)! 



Salpindes giindebipmsis SuARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, ISSl, 268. 



S(tlpinrtcs gaadeloupcnx!!! Amekicax OKNiTrioLofiisrs' rNinx, Check List, 1886, no. 

 716.— Bryant (W. E.), Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., no. 6, 1887, 308 (habit.«; nica.^- 

 urements; descr. nest and eggs). — TowNsExn (C. H.). Proc. U. S. Xat. Mu.s., 

 xiii, 1890, 138 (Guadalnpo I.). 



SlalpincteK'] griadeloitpotsis 'Rim;w.\\, Man. X. Am. I'.irds, 1887, 548. 



SALPINCTES OBSOLETUS NEGLECTUS Nelson. 

 CHANCOL ROCK WREN. 



Similar to S. o. noflus, but still smaller (except bill and feet), and 

 coloration darker, with under parts usually'* thickly .speckled (not 

 streaked, except on throat) with dusky, and dusky streaks or specks 

 and white dots on upper parts larger, the latter pure white; axillars 

 and under wing-coverts spotted with dusk3\ 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 130.5-145 (130.7); wing-, 08-72 (69.1); 

 tail, 48.5-52 (49.7); exposed culmen, 16.5-20.5 (18.1); tarsus, 20.5- 

 22.5 (21.8); middle toe, 13.5-15.5 (14.8).* 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 135; wing, 64; tail, 46.5; tarsus, 

 21; middle toe, 14.5.'^ 



Western (also central and southern ?) Guatemala (Hacienda Chancol; 

 \V)lcan de Santa Maria; Nenton) and adjoining parts of Chiapas 

 (fJuquipilas).'^ 



Salpinctes obsoletus (not Troglodytes obsoleius Say) Salvix and Scl.\ter, Ibis, 1860, 

 30 (Guatemala). — Coues, Birds Col. V"al., 1878, 159, part (Guatemala). — 

 SALvixandGoDMAX, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 71, part (Quezaltenango, 

 Salama, Eabinal, Quiche, and Jupiapa, ''Guatemala). — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 715, part (Guatemala). 



[Salpindesl obsoletus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 6, part 

 (Guatemala). 



S[alpinctes] obsoletus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 548, part (Guatemala). 



Salpinctes obsoletus neglectus Nelson, Auk, xiv, Jan., 1897, 70 (Hacienda Chan- 

 col, 10,000 ft., w. Guatemala; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



SALPINCTES MACULATUS Ridgway../" 

 SPOTTED ROCK WREN. 



Mucli darker than any of the forms of S. ohsoletm, with upper 

 parts more coarsely and heavil}^ variegated (even the rump conspicu- 

 ously spotted with dusky and whitish), and with under parts every- 

 where thickh' spotted or barred with dusky. 



« In six out of seven specimens examined. 



^ Five specimens. 



'^ One specimen. 



''The following localities, cited in the Biologia Centrali-Americaua, may or may nut 

 pertain to this form: Salanul side of Cuo.><ta doChuacus; Summit of CucstadeCachil; 

 Cachil; Quezaltenango; Rabinal; Jutiai>a. 



« Possibly S. maciilatus. 



.Type No. 150904, coll. V. S. Xat. :\rus., adult male, Toyabaj, dopartment of 

 Quiche, northern Guatemala, May 7, 1S9L': llcydc and Lux. 



