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TIJIELIIDJK. 



coverts like the back ; greater coverts chestnut, barred across irre- 

 gularly with blackish ; primary-coverts blackish, externally notched 

 ■with rufous ; quills blackish, the primaries notched, the secondaries 

 barred with rufous, the inner secondaries barred across ; tail-feathers 

 blackish brown, barred with rufous, a])out ten light bars being dis- 

 cernible on the centre feathers ; head and hind neck black, the 

 feathers on the latter part edged with chestnut ; a tolerably broad 

 white eyebrow from the base of the bill to the side of the nape ; 

 lores black, as also a band across the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; 

 sides of face and ear-coverts white, narrowly streaked with black, 

 with which the feathers are edged ; chin white, the remainder of 

 the under surface dull white, the flanks, lower abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts rufous ; all the lower surface barred across with blackish, 

 very narrowly on the throat and fore neck, and more broadly on the 

 flanks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, barred with 

 blackish ; quills dusky below, ashy fulvous along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 5'5 inches, culmeu 0'85, wing 2-8, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus 0'95. 



The Black-capped Wren is found in Western Ecuador and Colom- 

 bia, ranging into the State of Panama, where it has been found at 

 Truando. 



a. Imm. sk. Nanegal, Ecuador. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



b. S ad. sk. Santa Elena, Colombia. T. K. Salmon, Esq. [C.]. 



31. THRYOTHORUS. ^^ ^ 



Thriothorus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 4o (1816) T. ludovieianus. 



Pheugopedius, Cab. Miisl Hem. Th. i. p. 79 (1850). T. genibarbis. 



Cf. Baird, Revieiv Amer. B pp 120-127 , Salnn d)- Godman, Biol. 

 Cent) -Ainei , Aies, i p 89 



\\^^s 



Head of Thryofhorus ludovieianus. 



Range. From the Southern United States and California, through 

 the whole of Central America and South America, to Southern 

 Brazil and Bolivia. 



Ken ^^ ^^"^ Speries. 

 a. Throat uniform. 



a'. Wings externally barred. 



a". Rump with half-concealed spots of white 

 or buff. 

 a"'. Throat white or bufFy white. 



«■*. Sides of neck mottled or streaked 

 with black and white behind the 



