31. iHUYOTUoiirs. 221 



, Throat barred ; fore neck and chest uniform. 

 e' . Centre of breast white, contrasting with 



orange chest rutilus, p. 2.38. 



/'. Centre of breast grey, contrasting with 



orange chest hi/posjwdiu-s, p. 239. 



ff'. Centre of breast orange-rufoiis, a little paler 



than the chest hi/perythrus, p. 2.39. 



1. Thryothorus ludovicianus. 



Roitelet de la Louisiane, Danhent. PL JEnl. vi. pi. 33. 



Troglodyte de la Louisiane, Month. Hist. Xat. Ois. v. p. 361. 



Sylvia ludoviciana, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 548. 



Motacilla caroliniana, Bartrcnn, Trav. Florida, p. 29] . 



Motacilla ludovisiana, Turton, fi>'i/st. Kat. i. p. 613. 



Troglodytes arundinaceus, Vieill. Ois. Amer. Sept. ii. p. 55, pL cviii. 



Certhia CLirohniana, Wih. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 61, pi. xii. fig. 5 ; Jard. 



ed. IVih. Amer. Orn. i. p. 210. 

 Thryothorus littoralis, VieiU. Kouc. Diet. d'Sist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 56. 

 Troglodytes ludovicianus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 35 ; Audub. B. 



Amer. i. pi. Ixxviii. ; id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 339 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 158 ; id. Hand-l B. i. p. 189, no. 2567. 

 Thryothorus ludovicianus, Bp. Conip. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 11 ; 



id. Consp. i. p. 220 ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 20 (^pt.) ; Baird, Review 



Ajner. B. p. 123. 

 Thryothorus arundinaceus, Less,Itev. Zool. 1840, p. 262. 

 Thryothorus ludovicianus, var. ludovicianus, Baird, Bretcer, 4- Ridgic. 



Hist. X. Amer. B. i. p. 142, pi. 9. lig. 1 ; Cones, B. Color. Vail. 



p. 168. 



Adult male. General colour above rufous, the mantle and hind 

 neck .streaked with narrow whitish shaft-lines ; scapulars and nimp 

 mottled with half-concealed spots of white, these spots edged with 

 blackish ; upper tail-coverts like the back, ^\'ith a few nearly 

 obsolete dusky bars ; tail-feathers rufous, narrowly barred with 

 dusky blackish, the outer feathers whitish on the light bars, the 

 others whitish at the outer edge of the lighter bars ; lesser wino-- 

 coverts like the back ; median series with narrow shaft-streaks and 

 a terminal spot of duU white ; greater coverts rufous, numerously 

 barred with d^isky brown and minutely spotted with white at the 

 tip ; quills dusky brown, the secondaries rufous, banded across with 

 dusky, the primaries externally chequered with pale fulvous or 

 white notches : lores and a tolerably broad eyebrow yellowish 

 white, separated from the crown by a narrow line of blackish, with 

 which the superciliary feathers are edged : sides of neck mottled 

 Avith yellowish- white spots, which are further varied by blackish 

 spots and edgings ; cheeks, sides of face, and ear-coverts" yellowish 

 white, the latter with a few minute spots of black, the upper edge 

 of the ear-coverts rufous ; under surface of body yellowish white," a 

 little clearer on the sides of the body ; thighs rufous- brown; under 

 tail-coverts white, barred across with black : under wing-coverts 

 and axiUaries yellowish white, those near the edge of the wino- 

 barred with black; quills dusky brown below, yellowish white 



