81. xnEYOTitoEts. 223 



ccous, the sides and flanks showing indistinct bars of darker rusty ; 

 chin and crissum soiled whitisli, the latter banded with dusky black : 

 a continuous superciliary stripe of pale ochraccous, bordered above 

 by a blackish line along each side of the pilcum ; cheeks greyish 

 soiled white, with faint erescentic bars of dusky. Bill dusky, the 

 superior toniium and lower mandible pale (lilaceous in life ?) ; feet 

 pale horn-colour. AYing 2"7o inches, tail 260, culmen 0"90, tarsus 

 0-95, middle too (without the claw) 0-60. In coloration this strongly- 

 marked form closely resembles T. berlandieri, Baird, of the lower 

 Rio Grande (see Hist. N, Am. B. i. p. 144, pi. ix. fig. 2) ; but the 

 size is greatly larger than even the most northern examples of ludovi- 

 cianus proper, while berlandieri is smaller." (Bidgwai/.) 



Maynard's Wren has been recently discovered on the Miami 

 River in Eastern Plorida. 



4. Thryothorus mesoleucus. 



Thryothorus mesoleucus, Sclater, P. Z, S. 1876, p. 14. 



Adidt (S. Lucia ; J. Semper : type of species). General colour above 

 reddish brown, the head a little more dusky, the rump varied with 

 half-concealed spots of white ; scapulars and wing-coverts like the 

 back, with obsolete dusky barrings ; remainder of the wing-coverts 

 reddish brown, with distinct dusky blackish bars ; quills brown, 

 externallj' reddish brown barred with duskj' blackish, the inner 

 secondaries entirely duU reddish brown, barred across with blackish : 

 the primaries externally chequered with small rnfescent notches ; 

 tail dark reddish brown, with distinct cross bai's of black, about eight 

 in number ; lores whitish, as also apparently a narrow eyebrow ; ear- 

 coverts pale reddish brown ; cheeks, sides of face, and under surface 

 of body white ; the sides of the breast, flanks, and thighs reddish 

 brown ; under tail-coverts deep rufous, tipped with white and 

 crossed with a few bars of diisky blackish ; under wing-coverts white, 

 washed with ashy fulvous ; axillaries light rufous, like the sides 

 of the body ; quills dusky brown below, ashy along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-8o, wing 2, tail 1-45, 

 tarsus 0-7. {Mus. P. L. Sclater.) 



Semper's Wren is an inhabitant of the island of Santa Lucia, in 

 the West Indies, and is no doubt confined to it. 



5. Tliryothorus musicus. 



Thiyothorus musicus, Later. Ann. K. Y. Acad. Set. vol. i. p. 148 

 (187CS) ; id. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. i. pp. 189, 48G. 



Male. Above of a dark ferruginous, somewhat darker on the 

 crown and brighter on the rump ; lores and a line running back 

 from the eye white, tinged with rufous : the exposed portions of 

 the wings are dark rufous, conspicuously barred with black ; the 

 inner webs of the primaries are blackish brown ; under M'ing- 

 coverts white ; the tail-feathers are dark itifous, barred with black ; 



