30. THRYOPHILUS. 215 



banded across with black ; an elongated white eyebrow ; sides of 

 head white variegated with black ; under surface of body white, 

 entirely barred across with black, almost as in !Sijlvia nisoria ; under 

 Mang-coverts variegated with white and black; bill and feet horn- 

 colour. Total length 5-5 inches, wing 2-7, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-85. 

 {SvJater, I, c. : fi/pe in Berlin Museum.) 



Dcppe's Uanded AVren is only known from the single specimen 

 obtained at Ileal Ariba, Mexico, by ilr. Deppe. 



13. Thryophilus thoracicus. 



Thryothorus thoracicus, Sa/v. P.Z.S. 1804, p. 580, 1807, p. 134; 



Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 93. 

 Tliryothonis brunneus, Lmcr. Ann. Lijc. X. Y. viii. p. 179. 

 Troglodytes thoracicus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 190, no- 2o91. 

 Thryophilus thoracicus, Scl. ^- Salv. Komend. A v. Neotr. p. 7; 



Sah>. Si' Gochn. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 86, tab. 6. figs. 1, 2. 



Adult (Tucurriqiii, Costa Eica, Oct. 1864 ; E. Arce : type of 

 species). General colour above brown, clearer and more cinnamon- 

 brown on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the latter 

 being obscurely barred with blackish ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 the greater and primary-coverts barred with black on tlie outer web ; 

 bastard wing mottled with ashy on the outer webs of the feathers ; 

 quills dusky brown, cxternalh' light cinnamon-brown, barred with 

 black, the inner secondaries banded across ; centre tail-feathers light 

 brown, barred rather broadly Avith black, the other tail-feathers 

 uniform blackish on the inner web, the outer ones again light bi'own, 

 baiTed with blackish, more narrowly and indistinctly than the centre 

 feathers ; eyelid and a narrow eyebrow white ; ear-coverts and 

 sides of neck streaked Avith black and white, the feathers being white 

 edged with black rather broadly ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck duU 

 ■white, streaked with blackish, with which the feathers are edged ; 

 remainder of under surface light brown, the centre of the abdomen 

 mottled with a few whitish feathers, barred with black ; under tail- 

 coverts yellowish white, narrowly barred across with black ; under 

 wing-coverts duU white, mottled with dusky blackish edgings to the 

 feathers ; quills dusky brown below, ashy whitish along the edge of 

 the inner web. Total length 4*6 inches, culmen 0*8, wing 2*4, 

 tail 1*7, tarsus 0"85. (Mus. >Sah'iti and Godman.) 



Young (Santiago de Ycragua ; E. Arce). Differs from the adult 

 in its more dingy coloration, the whole upper surface being of a 

 dull cinnamon-brown colour ; the under surface also of the same 

 colour, with the tliroat and fore neck ashy, streaked with white 

 centres to the feathers, these white streaks bordered with dull 

 blackish ; sides of face also ashy, streaked with white and black, 

 but much more indistinctly than the adult. Total length 4-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-7, wing 2*3, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-85. {Mvs. Salvin and 

 Godman.) 



The 8tripc-th rented "Wren has been found in Nicaragua and Costa 

 llica, and extends into Yeragua. 



