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with wide feathers. Tarsus a little longer than the middle toe and claw. Upper parts with 

 sharp white streaks on a brown ground; under jiarts boldly s{)otted with black on a white 

 iiround; tail-feathers barred with black and white. 



63. C. brunneicapillus. (Lat. brunneus, brown ; capillus, hair.) Brown-headed Cacti;s 

 WuEX. (J, adult: Back grayish-brown, marked with black and white, each feather having 

 a central white field several times indented with black. Whole crown of head and nape rich 

 dark wood-brown, immaculate. A h)ng white superciliary stripe from nostril to nape. Beneath, 

 nearly pure white anteriorly, gradually shading behind into decided cinnamon-brown — the 

 tliroat and fore part of the breast marked with large, crowded, rounded black spots, the rest of 

 tlie under parts with small, sparse, oval or linear black spots, again enlarging on the crissum. 

 Wings darker and more fuscous-bro^vn than the back ; all the quills with a series of numerous 

 white or whitish indentations along the edge of both webs. Central tail-feathers like the 

 wings, with numerous more or less incomplete blackish bars ; other tail-feathers blackish, the 

 outer with several broad white bars on both webs ; the rest with usually only a single com- 

 plete white bar near the end. Bill dark plumbeous, paler below ; iris orange. Length near 

 8.00; wing 3.50; tail rather longer; bill 0.80; tarsus 1.00; middle toe and claw 0.90. 9, 

 adult : Quite like the ^ , but the spots on the throat and breast rather smaller, therefore less 

 crowded, and less strongly contrasting with the sparse speclding of the rest of the under parts. 

 Young : Similar to the adult on the upper parts, but the throat whitish with little speckling ; 

 scarcely any spots on the rest of the under parts, which are, however, as decidedly cinnamon as 

 those of the adults. Southwestern U. S., — Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern Utah 

 and Nevada, and portions of California ; common in cactus and chaparral, building a large 

 purse-shaped nest in bushes ; eggs about 6, 1.00 X 0.68, white, unifonnly and minutely dotted 

 A\-ith salmon-color. (If not C. brunneicapillus Lafr., this will stand as C, couesi Sharpe, Cat. 

 Br. Mus., vi, 1882, p. 196.) 



CI. C. affl'nis. (Lat. affinis, alBned, allied; ad, and finis.) St. Lucas Cactus Wren. Sim- 

 ilar to the last. Cap reddish-brown, lighter instead of darker than the back. Markings of 

 back very conspicuous, in strong streaks of l)lack and white, these two colors bordering each 

 other with little or no indentation. Under parts nearly white, the black spots, though con- 

 spicuous, not enlarged and crowded on the breast, but more regularly distributed. All the 

 lateral tail-feathers, instead of only the outer ones, crossed on both webs with numerous com- 

 plete white bars. The variaticms with sex and age correspond with those i if C. brunneicapillus. 

 Lower Califoniia. Nest and eggs as before. (According to Sharpe, I. c, this is C. brun- 

 neicapillus Lafr.) 

 20. SALPIXC'TES. (Gr. aaXmyKTfjs, salptightes, a trumpeter. "i EocK Wren.s. Bill about as long 

 as head, slender, compressed, straight at base, then 

 slightly decurved, acute at tip, faintly notched. 

 Nostrils conspicuous, scaled, in a large fossa. Wing 

 longer than tail ; exposed portion of 1st primary 

 about half as long as 2d, which is decidedly shorter 

 than 3d. Tail rounded, of 12 broad plane feathers, 

 with rounded or subtruncate ends. Feet small and 

 weak ; tarsus longer than middle toe, scutellate pos- 

 teriorly. Hind toe and claw shorter than middle 

 one; lateral toes of unequal lengths, the outer fig. i48.-Kock Wi-e~! ..at. size. (Adnat. 



longest, both very short, the tips of their claws del. E. C.) 

 falling short of base of middle claw. Only one species known. 



o.'i. S. obsole'tus. (Lat. obsoletus, unaccustomed ; oh, and soleo, I am wont; hence obsolete, eflfaced, 

 the coloration being dull and diffuse. Fig. 148.) Rock W^ren. ^ 9 , adult : Upper parts 

 pale brownish-gray, minutely dotted with blackish and whitish points together, and usually 



