29. CAMPTLOEnYNCHXJS. 197 



axillaries washed with tawny huff, all of them mottled with blackish 

 bases to the feathers ; quills ashy browu below, chequered with 

 white spots aloug the inside of tho inner web; "bill blackish; 

 lower mandible dull light bluish at tlie base ; legs flax-brown ; iris 

 reddish brown " {II. E. Drenser). Total length 7'3 inches, culmea 

 1, wing 3-35, tail 3-4, tarsus 1-05. {Mas. Salvin <Sf Godman.) 



A<ht[t. female. Quito like the male, but the spots on the throat 

 and breast rather smaller, tlierefore less crowded and less strongly 

 contrasting with the sparse speckling of the rest of the underparts. 

 {Coues, B. Color. VaU. p. 15(J.) 



I'ouiir/. A newly fledged specimen is very similar to the adult in 

 the upper parts, but the throat is whitish, with little speckling, 

 and there are scarcely any spots on the rest of the underparts, 

 which are, however, as decidedly cinnamon as those of the adults. 

 {Couex, I. c.) 



The Cactus-Wren is found in the Southern United States, in the 

 valleys of the Rio Grande and Colorado, Southern California, Utah, 

 and Nevada, ranging into Mexico, where it is common along the 

 northern frontier, and extends to the vicinity of the city of Mexico 

 itself. 



a. 2ad.sk. Larido, Texas, Feb. 28, 1867, Smithsonian Institution [P.]. 

 (Br. H. B. Butcher). 



14. Campylorhynclius brunneicapillus. 



Picolaptes brunneicapillus, Lafr. May. de Zool. IS'i'i, Oiseaux, pi. 47. 

 Campylorhynclius brunneicapillus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 94 ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. I^jO ; Bp. Consp. i. j>. 223. 

 Campylorhynchus affinis, Xantus, Proc. Fhilad. Acad. 1859, p. 298 ; 



Baird, t. c. p. 303; Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 17; Baird, Review 



Amer. B. p. 100 ; Elliot, Neiv and Unfiy. B. N. Amer. i. pi. iv. ; 



Cooper, Orn. Calif, p. 62 ; Cones, Key iV. Amer. B. p. 85 ; Baird, 



Breioer, ^- Ridyw. N.-Amer. B. i. p. 133. 



Adult mcde in breeding-plumaeie. General colour above ashy 

 brown, longitudinally streaked with white, each of these white 

 streaks laterally bordered with black ; the mantle a little darker 

 than the back; least wing-coverts ashy brown, like the back, and 

 streaked in the same manner ; median and greater coverts ashy 

 brown, barred with diisky brown and ashy or wliity brown, a few 

 of the greater series having a triangular white spot near the tip ; 

 primary-coverts and quills dark brown, notched with whit)' brown 

 or ashy white on the outer webs, producing a barred appearance, 

 extending right across the innermost secondaries ; upper tail-coverta 

 ashy brown, barred across with dusky brown ; two centre tail- 

 feathers pale ashy brown, barred and mottled with dark brown, 

 about nine dark bars being perceptible on them ; remainder of the 

 tail-feathers checiuered with black and white, being broadly barred 

 with white on the inner web, and having a square spot of white oa 

 the outer one, the white spots and bars not being coutermiiious ; 



