214 TIMELIID-I'. 



Troglodytes plenrostictus, Grmf, Hand-l. B. i. p. 180, no. 2070. 

 Thryopiiilus pleuvo.<tictus, Lawr. Ann. Lijc. N. Y. ix. p. 92; von 

 Frantz. J. f. O. 18G!), p. 201 ; Scl. ^- Salv. Xomencl. Ac. Xeotr. p. 7 ; 

 Boiicard, 1\ Z. S. 1878, p. 51; Salv. ^- Gochn. Biul. Ccntr.-Amer., 

 Aves, i. p. 8G. 

 Adult. General colour above clear i;mber-brown, slightly paler on 

 the lower back and rump ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater 

 series and the quills barred with blackish, the inner webs of the 

 quills uniform dusky brown, the innermost secondaries barred across 

 like the greater wing-coverts ; the primaries externally notched with 

 pale rufous-brown ; bastard- wing plumes externally white like the 

 edge of the wing ; tail-feathers light rufescent brown, barred regu- 

 larly with black, the bars about ten in number, the light bars paler 

 on the inner web of the outer feathers and inchning to whitish ; a 

 distinct white eyebrow, running from the base of the nostrils to the 

 side of the nape, the white feathers edged with blackish, forming a 

 narrow fringe between the eyebrow and the crown ; lores dusky ; 

 cheeks and sides of face white, slightly streaked with narrow blackish 

 edgings to the feathers, the upper margins of the ear-coverts slightly 

 rufescent ; sides of neck distinctly and broadly streaked with black 

 and white ; throat and centre of the body below white, the whole of 

 the sides of the body distinctly banded with black, and slightly 

 washed here and therewith pale rufescent brown ; thighs narrowly, 

 but the under tail-coverts very broadly, barred with black ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, mottled with blackish spots and 

 dusky bases to the feathers ; quills dusky below, whitish along the 

 inner web. Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 2-45, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus 0"8o. 



Tounr/. Similar to the adult on the upper surface, but differing 

 below, the ground-colour of the under surface being dull white, the 

 throat slightly varied with dusky margins to the feathers, the breast 

 streaked with dusky brown, with which some of the feathers are 

 edged ; the flanks ruddy brown, with a few dusky cross bars ; thighs 

 uniform rufous-brown ; under tail-coverts fulvescent brown, tipped 

 with white and indistinctly barred with dusky. 



Sclator's Banded Wren is an inhabitant of the western side of 

 Central America, from South-western Mexico to Honduras, Guate- 

 mala, Nicaragua, and Costa E.ica. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Teliuantepec. Dr. Siunichrast [C.]. 



c. Juv. sk; Tehuantepee. Dr. Sumichrast [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Tehuantepee. W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. 



e. Ad. St. Honduras. Mr. Dyson [C.]. 



12. ThryopMlus nisorius. 



Troglodytes nisorius, LicJif., 3Ius. Berol. et Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 34 



(descr. nulla) ; Cah. J. f. O. 186.3. p. -54. 

 Thryothorus nisorius, Scl P. Z. S. 1809, p. 591, pi. 45. 

 Tlu'vophilus nisorius, Scl. ^- Sali\ Nomencl. Av. Keofr. p. 7; Salv. 



8)- Gudm. Biol. Ccntr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 87. 



Adult. Above bright rufous, with the wings and tail regularly 



