194 TIMELIID.E. 



Boucard's Cactus-Wren is confined to Mexico, where it has a 

 limited range, from Tchuacau to Oaxaca. 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



11. Campylorhynchus gularis. (Plate XII. fig. 2.) 



CampvlorliYuchus fjularis, Schifcr, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 4G2 ; Saird, 

 Jievieiv Amer. B. p. 109 ; Mater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 17 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 192, no. 2053 ; Scl. S,- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 5 ; 

 Sulv. i§' Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 66. 



Adult. General colour above reddish brown, streaked with white, 

 the white streaks edged with black and very distinct on the hind 

 neck ; the back also streaked with white, but more mottled, the 

 spots being diamond-shaped and having a large black spot on each 

 side ; dipper tail-coverts tawny brown, barred with narrow cross 

 lines of white and dusky brown, more distinct on the outer ones ; 

 wing-coverts brown, barred with blackish brown, and having trian- 

 gular spots of white ; quills brown, barred with pale reddish brown 

 and black on the outer webs, the pale bars inclining to white on the 

 edge of the primaries ; inner secondaries mottled across with dusky 

 brown, all the others uniform brown on the inner web ; centre tail- 

 feathers pale ashy brown, with a whitish tip, very faintly freckled 

 with blackish-brown cross bars, many of them broken up and having 

 the appearance of spots ; remainder of tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 with a broad ending of ash}- white, the outer webs barred with 

 blackish and dull white, many of the light bars tinged with rufous ; 

 outer tail-feathers more distinctly barred, the bars extending to 

 the inner web ; crown of head dull rufous-brown, the feathers 

 pointed with paler reddish-brown tips ; a very broad fulvous eye- 

 brow, extending from the base of the bill to the side of the nape ; 

 lores dusky ; car-coverts dull whitish, the upper margin reddish 

 brown ; cheeks white, separated from the throat bj' a narrow mous- 

 tachial line ; throat and fore neck white, unspotted ; rest of under 

 surface pale tawny buff, the centre of the abdomen buff)- white, 

 without spots ; sides of breast with small spots of black, larger and 

 more inclining to bars on the flanks, which have indications also of 

 white bars -. under tail-covcrts tawny buflF, with a few black spots ; 

 thighs reddish brown, barred with huffy white like the sides of the 

 vent ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed slightly with 

 brown ; quills dull brown below, mottled with whitish along the 

 inner web, as well as the outer one. Total length 7 inches, eulmen 

 0-8, wing 2-75, tail 3-15, tarsus 0-9. 



Ohs. I have compared the specimen in the British Museum with 

 the type in Dr. Sclater's collection, and find that it is not only iden- 

 tical, but that it was evidently prepared by the same hands. It 

 may be, therefore, as Mr. Salvin suggests, that the collector of these 

 specimens was Floresi, who collected in Central Mexico, which may 

 perhaps be the habitat of the species. 



a. Ad. sk. i Mexico. J. Gould, Esq. 



