190 TIMELIID.'E. 



with palo rufous ; primary-coverts uniform dusky browu ; quills 

 (lark brown, externally edged with pale rufous ; lores, feathers 

 round the eye, and a narrow eyebrow white ; checks and' ear-coverts 

 dull white, the feathers edged with dusky brown, the upper edge of 

 the latter blackish brown ; a narrow moustachial line of blackish 

 brown ; under surface of body dull white ; the throat and breast 

 profusely spotted with blackish brown, the flanks barred with the 

 same colour and slightly tinged with palo rufous ; thighs dusky 

 brown, with pale edgings ; under tail-coverts light rufous-brown, 

 barred with blackish brown ; under wing-coverts dusky brown, 

 streaked and spotted with blackish brown ; quills dusky brown 

 below, ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 7*4 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-3, tail 3-2, tarsus 1. 



Adult male. Similar to the female in plumage. Total length 7'2 

 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 345, tail 3'1, tarsus 1*05. (Mus. Salvin 

 and Godman.) 



Gould's Cactus- Wren inhabits Upper Amazonia, whence it ranges 

 into Colombia. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Upper Ucayali, May 3, 18G5. Edward Bartlett, Esq. [C.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Ucayali River. H. W. Bates, Esq. [C.]. 



7. Campylorhynchus unicolor. 



Picolaptes scolopaceus, Lafr. et d'Orh. Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 46 (wee 



Licht.). 

 Anumbius scolopaceus, d'Orb. Voy. Amer. mend., Ois. p. 256 {nee 



Licht.). 

 Campylorhynchus unicolor, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 93 ; Grm/, Gen. 



B. i. p. lo9 ; Bf. Consp. i. p. 223 ; Solater, Pr. Philud. Acad. 1856, 



viii. p. 264; id. Cat. Amer. ^5. p. 16; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 192, 



no. 2644 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 49, 414 ; Scl. 8f Salv. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 5 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 592. 

 Campylorhynchus unicoloroides, Lafr. Bev. Zool. 1846, p. 316 (av. 



juv.) ; Grail, Gen. B. i. p. 154; Bp. Consp. i. p. 223 ; Sclater, Pr. 



Philad. Acad. 1856, p. 264. 



Adult mcde. General colour above pale brown, (juite uniform, 

 with the exception of a few dark-brown centres to some of the 

 feathers of the crown ; hind neck and mantle slightly washed 

 with ochreous brown ; least wing-coverts like the back, the median 

 and greater series brown, margined with ashy fulvous ; quills dark 

 brown, edged externally with clearer fulvous, the inner secondaries 

 with ashy fulvous ; upper tail- coverts and tail-feathers margined 

 with pale ashy fulvous, both on the outer and inner web of the 

 rectrices ; lores and an eyebrow creamy buff; ear-coverts and sides 

 of face buffy white, the former brown along the upper margin; 

 throat buffy white, deeper fulvous, or light fulvous brown : 

 moustache and sides of throat faintly tinged with deeper fulvous ; 

 on the sides of the breast a few faintly indicated spots of dusky, 

 as also on the lower flanks ; uuder tail-coverts fulvous, very dis- 

 tinctly spotted with dark brown, and extending across some of tlie 



