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the back, the median series with indications of dusky cross-barring, 

 the greater coverts distinctly barred witli blackisli' brown ; quills 

 sepia-brown, externally rufous-brown like the back, barred with 

 blackish on the outer webs, the inner secondaries barred across both 

 •webs ; tail light rufous, barred across with blackish brown, the bars 

 somewhat broken, and zigzag in shape on some of the feathers ; a 

 very distinct white eyebrow running from the base of the bill to the 

 sides of the nape ; sides of the neck washed with ashy ; a streak of 

 brown along the upper edge of the ear-corerts ; cheeks and ear- 

 coverts pure white, as also the under surface of the body, which is 

 washed with pale fawn-colour on the sides, deepening on the lower 

 flanks and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white below, faintly tinged with fawn-colour; quills dusky brown 

 below, ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web ; "irides hazel ; 

 bill black above, flesh-coloured beneath ; legs and feet blue " (Frazer). 

 Total length 5-1 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 2-5, tail 2, tarsus 1. 



The White-breasted Wren appears to be entirely confined to 

 Ecuador. 



• Ad. sk. Guavaquil. Eyton Collection. 



Ad. sk. Island of Pima. G. Barclay, Esq. [ 



Ad. St. Island of Puna. G. Barclay, Esq. [ 



8. Thryophilus guarayanus. 



Troglodytes guarayanus, Zafr. ei d'Orb. Bcv. Zool. 1837, p. 26; d'Orb. 



Vol/. Amer. inerid., Ois. p. 203 ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 158 ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 222; Grai/, Iland-l. B. i. p. 191, no. 2627. 

 Tbrvopbilus fulvus, Sdater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 781 ; Scl. %■ Salv. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 503. 



Adult. Above reddish brown or dark fulvous brown ; the head 

 and neck uniform, but the mantle and back with obsolete dusky 

 cross-barring ; the rump and upper tail-coverts rather more chestnut 

 than the back ; wiiigs a little more rufous than the back, mottled 

 with dull blackish cross bars, more distinct on the greater coverts, 

 and especially so on the quills, which are blackish on their inner 

 webs and barred with black on the outt'r web, the innermost 

 secondaries barred across both webs ; tail-feathers chestnut-bi'own, 

 niimerously barred across with blackish, about twentv-nine or thirty 

 being discernible on the central feathers; a broad eyebrow of pale 

 fulvous feathers from the base of the nostrils to the side of the nape ; 

 eyelid white ; sides of face reddish brown, with whitish bases and 

 shaft-lines to the feathers of the ear-coverts ; lores and upper edge 

 of ear-coverts dusky reddish brown ; throat and under surface of 

 body bufty fawn-colour; the chin-feathers mottled with white 

 bases ; flanks and sides of body deeper reddish brown, with a few 

 obsolete bars of blackish on the former ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts deep fawn-colour, as also the under wing-oovorts and axil- 

 laries ; quills dark sepia-brown below, mottled with rufous along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 4*8 inches, culmen O'T, 

 wing 2i5, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-95. {Mus. Salvin and Godnian.) 



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