2S). CAMPYLORHYNCnUS. 191 



feathers so as to look like bars ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 fulvous, inclining to pale fawn-butf; quills brown below, ashy- 

 fulvous along the edge of the inner web. Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen O-'J, wing 3-45, tail 3-3, tarsus 1-1. (Mus. P. L. Sclater.) 



Tlie Brown Cactus- Wren is known from Western Brazil and 

 Bolivia. 



a. Ad. sk. Bolivia. Mr. Bridges [C.]. 



8. Cainpylorhynclius capistratus. 



Picolaptes capistrata, L(;&s. liev. Zool. 1842, p. 174 ; Des Murs, Icon. 

 Orn. pi. 63. 



Campyloi'hATichus capistratus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 159 ; Bp. Consp.' 

 i. p. 24.3; Sclater, Proc. Philad. Acad. ISoG, p. 264; Sclater, 

 P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 363, 371 ; Scl. 8,- Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 8 ; G. C. 

 Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 317; Baird, Rcvietv Amer. B. p. 104; Salv. 

 Ibis, 1866, p. 202 ; La2vr. Ann. Lrjc. N. T. ix. p. 92; Gray, Hand-h 

 B. i. p. 192, no. 2641 ; Scl. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 5 ; Sal- 

 vin ^ Godman, Biol. Cent r.- Amer., Aves, i. p. 64. 



Campylorhynchus rufiuuclia, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1815, p. 339, 1846, 

 p. 94; Less. Descr. Mainm. et Ois. p. 285; Salv. Ibis, 1866, 

 p. 191 ; Baird, liev. Amer. B. i. p. 105 ; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 191 ; 

 Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 5. 



Heleudytes capistratus. Cab. J. f. O. 1860, p. 409. 



Troglndytes (OampylorlijTichus) cervicalis, Liclit. fide Cub. J. f. O. 

 1860, p. 409. 



Adult (Savana Grande, Guatemala). General colour above bright 

 chestnut-brown, the scapulars varied with half- concealed spots and 

 streaks of white flanked by larger spots of black ; wing-coverts 

 chestnut-brown, barred with black, and having wliitish shaft-linos ; 

 primary-coverts blackish brown, notched externally with chestnut ; 

 quills blackish brown, notched on the outer web witli chestnut-brown, 

 inclining to buffy white, the inner secondaries mottled and barred 

 with chestnut-brown ; upper tail-coverts chestnut-brown, barred 

 with black, the rufous interspaces inclining to ashy fulvous on many 

 of the coverts ; centre tail-feathers blackish, barred with brown on 

 the outer web, the tips ashy brown, mottled with blackish and having 

 a broad subterminal bar of black ; the remainder of the tail-fealhcrs 

 black, ashy at the tips and subterminally white, with a black spot 

 before the end of the outer web, which has also slight indications of 

 whitish notches, larger on the outermost feather ; a very broad 

 white eyebrow from the base of the bill to the side of the nape ; 

 lores and a streak along the upper margin of the ear-coverts black ; 

 sides of face and under surface of body creamy white, inclining to 

 buff on the flanks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white; 

 quills dusky brown below, ashy white along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 2-85, tail 2-7, 

 tarsus 0'95. {Ma.'i. Scilvin and Godman.) 



Ohs. Like Messrs. Salvin and Godman, I cannot believe in the C. 

 rujiniu-lia of Prof. Baird being a distinct s])ecics from C. capistra- 

 tus, and I consider it very probably only a younger stage of the latter 

 species. It difl'ers from C. capintratus, as described above, in having 



