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above Santa Maria de Jesus at T,800 feet on Volcan de Agua, and 

 one on November 29 near Las Lajas at 3,200 feet below Alotenango. 

 They were found in weeds or thickets along the fences bordering 

 milpas. On November 29 one was heard singing. On December 2 

 one scolded me from vines over a pergola in the main plaza of 

 Guatemala City. They were known to the natives as the churrita. 



TROGLODYTES RUFOCILIATUS RUFOCILIATUS Sharpe 



Troglodytes rufociliatus Sharpe, Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, 

 vol. 6, 1881, p. 262 (10,000 feet elevation on Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala). 



At Sierra Santa Elena these woodland wrens were fairly common, 

 ranging from near Chichivac at 8,600 feet to the higher areas at 

 10,000 feet. They were found about logs in the forest or in dense 

 thickets and came readily at a call to peer and bob, sometimes where 

 the light was so dim that I could barely see them as they moved. 

 Moss-grown dead falls were particularly favored, and from such 

 shelters they scolded me with chattering notes. On the evening of 

 November 25, while Axel Pira, Jr., and I were searching at night for 

 motmots in their roosting holes, we came through a little gate on a 

 trail to a perpendicular bank of black earth 8 feet high. The first 

 few holes in this bank that we examined were empty, but in the last 

 one the beam of the electric torch showed the bright eye and light- 

 colored superciliary stripe of one of these wrens at the far end 3 feet 

 from the entrance. A stick in the hole brought the bird into my 

 hand, and a minute later its companion followed. The nest, what- 

 ever it may have been, was in a little depression where I could not 

 reach it. The two secured were male and female. 



At Desconsuelo on November 24 I took one at 10,200 feet among 

 fallen branches beneath the pines. 



HENICORHINA LEUCOPHRYS CAPITALIS Nelson 



Henicorhina leucoplirys capitalis Nelson, Auk, 1897, p. 74 (Pinabete, Chiapas). 



On the north face of Volcan de Acatenango above Dueiias in a 

 steep, heavily wooded valley I found these wood wrens fairly common 

 and after much watching secured specimens on October 29 and Novem- 

 ber 1. The birds lived in pairs in dense shadows near the ground where 

 their presence was usually betrayed by their chattering calls. Some- 

 times three or four were encountered together. Once two appeared 

 within 10 or 15 feet of me without particular fear, though they were 

 adroit in resting so that a branch or a root gave them concealment. 

 The pleasing song, without great carrying power, suggests strongly 

 the pleasant tones of the winter wren both in tone and in method of 

 utterance. At Panajachel on November 13 I heard one singing on 



