224 TIMKLIIDJE. 



the entire back and upper tail-coverts are marked inconspicuously 

 •with narrow transverse dusky lines ; the feathers of the rump have 

 concealed white shaft-stripes, which become wider towards the ends 

 of the feathers ; the feathers of the hack also have the basal portion 

 of their shafts marked with white ; tlic throat, breast, and middle 

 of the abdomen are white, the latter tinged with rufous ; tlie sides 

 are light ferruginous ; the under tail-coverts are rufous, each fea- 

 ther marked with a subterminal round black spot ; upper mandible 

 black ; the under whitish, with the end dusky ; tarsi and toes light 

 brownish flesh-colour. Length 5i inches, wing 2i, tail 1||-, tarsus ^. 

 (^Lriwrence.) 



The Pt.-Yiucent "Wren is confined to the island of that name. 

 The British Museum does not contain a specimen of this bird, which 

 is apparently not represented in any European collection. Mr. 

 Lawrence remarks : — " In its white under-plumage this species some- 

 what resembles T. mesoleiiciis, ScL, from St. Lucia ; but it is bright 

 rufous above instead of earthy brown, and the flanks are light fer- 

 ruginous instead of fulvous ; it is also of larger dimensions. The 

 transverse markings on the back and the round black spots on the 

 crissum are strong characteristics." 



6. Thryothorus albinucha. 



Troglodytes albinucha, Cabot, Prac. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 258. 

 Thryothoriis petenicus, Salv. P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 187 ; Baird, Beview 



Amer. B. p. 125. 

 Tliryothorus albinucha, Baird, Bevieiv Amer. B. p. 149; Sah. Ibis, 



1866, p. 191 ; Laicr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 199; Scl. Sf Salv. No- 



tnencl. Av. Neotr. p. 7 ; Salv. S^ Godm. Biol. C'ent.-Amer., Aves, 



i. p. 94, tab. vii. fig. 2. 

 TroglodA-tes petenica, Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 189, no. 2572. 



Adult (type of T. petenicus, Salv.; Sakluk, near Peten, Guate- 

 mala). General colour above bright umber-brown, a little more 

 reddish on the lower back and rump, the latter being distinctly 

 varied with half-concealed ovate spots of white, edged with black ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the lesser and median series slightly 

 more ashy, the greater coverts obsoletely barred with dusky ; quills 

 brown, externallv rufous-brown, barred with dusky on the outer 

 web. the primaries externally chequered with fulvous notches ; upper 

 tail-coverts fulvous brown, narrowly barred with du?ky blackish ; 

 two centre tail-feathers dark ashy brown, with about eight blackish 

 cross bars, which are not complete and are generally broken up 

 into spots ; the remainder of the tail-feathers blackish, ashy brown 

 extei-nallv, towards the base barred with black, the outermost 

 feathers with pale ashy tips, barred with black, the outer feather 

 notched with white on the outer web ; a very distinct eyebrow 

 from the base of the nostril to the sides of the neck, the eyebrow 

 separated from the crown by a narrow line of black, formed by the 

 black margins to the feathers ; sides of neck mottled with white 

 and black streaks in continuation of the eyebrow ; lores duU white ; 



