204 TIMELILDiE. 



The FiUvous-uapcd Cactus-Wren is only known from Trinidad 

 and Venezuela. 



a. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Eyton Collection. 



21. Campylorhynchus pardus. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) 



Campylorliyncliuspardus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 271; id. Cat. Amer. 

 B. p. 17, note ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 192, no. 2642 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 

 1871, p. 321 ; Scl. ^" Salv. Notnencl. Av. Neutr. p. 5. 



Adult. General colour above white and black, the whole of the 

 mantle black streaked with white, the feathers being irregularly 

 white in the centre ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts barred with 

 black and white ; head pale ashy brown, the head streaked with 

 black, a few of the frontal plumes barred with black ; wipg-coverts 

 black, barred with white, the greater series having two broad white 

 bars ; quills blackish brown, spotted with white externallj', the 

 inner secondaries with large white spots on both webs, forming an 

 almost complete bar across the feather; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 with large ashy-white markings on the centre feathers, reaching 

 nearly across the feathers so as to form a bar ; the remainder of the 

 feathers spotted on the outer web, notched on the inner one, these 

 markings increasing in size on the outer feathers, where they nearly 

 fonn cross bars ; a distinct white eyebrow from tlie base of the bill 

 to the side of the nape ; lores, feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, 

 and cheeks pure white, with a narrow line of black along the upper 

 margin of the ear-coverts ; throat pure white ; remainder of under 

 surface of body white, with small rounded black spots on the fore 

 neck and breast, these spots much larger on the flanks and under 

 tail-coverts, the thighs barred ; under wing-coverts white, minutely 

 spotted with blackish, the axillaries streaked with the same ; quills 

 brown below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 6-6 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 2-75, tail 3, tarsus 0-9. 



The Striped Cactus-Wren is only known from Colombia and New 

 Granada. It is very doubtful whether it is really distinct from the 

 foregoing species. 



a. Ad. sk. New Granada. Purchased. 



30. THRYOPHILUS. 



Type. 



ThryophiUis, Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 127 (1864) T. rufalbus. 



(Cf. Sale. ^ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. pp. 81-89.) 



Heud of Thryoph'lus lonjirostris. 



