31. TiiRYOTuoErs. 225 



ear-coverts also dull white, sliglitly oljscured by dusky margins to 

 the feathers ; the upper edge of the ear-coverts rufous-brown ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body fulvescent, whitish on the throat 

 and centre of the breast and abdomen ; flanks deep fidvous brown, 

 ■with a few indistinct blackish cross bars ; thighs fulvous brown ; 

 under tail-coverts ^vhitc, broadly barred with black ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries dull white, those near the edge of the wing 

 mottled with brown bases ; quills dull brown below, whitish or 

 buffy white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-2 

 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 2-3, tail 2-2, tarsus 0"S5. {Afus. Salvia 

 and G'odmau.) 



Cabot's Wren appears to be confined to the promontory of Yucatan 

 and the adjoining district of Peten. 



7. Thryothorus bewickii. 



Troglodytes bewickii, Aiidub. B. Amer. pi. x^iii. ; id. Oni. Biogr. i. 



p. 96; Audidi. B. Amer. 8vo, ii. p. 120, pi. 118; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. lo8 ; /(/. Iland-l. B. i. p. liJO, no. 2(i02. 

 Thryothorus bewickii, Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. Sc N. Amer. p. 11 ; 



id. C'vnsp. i. p. 221 ; Buird, B. iV. Amer. 18-38, p. 303 ; Dresser, 



//«s, 18(j5, p. 4(34 ; Butcher, Pr. Phd. Acad. 1868, p. 149 ; Cuues, 



Ei',1 X. Amer. B. p. 86 ; )V/. B. X.-W. p. 31. 

 Teluiatodyte.s bewickii, Cab. Mu-t. Hein. Th. i. p. 78. 

 Thryomanes bewickii, var. bewickii, Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 126. 

 Thryothorus bewickii, var. bewiclcii, Beard, Brewer, i.y Bidr/w. Hist. 



X. Amer. B. p. 145, pi. 9. tig. 3. 



Above dark rufous-brown ; rump and middle tail-feathers some- 

 times a little paler and very slightly tinged with grey, and, together 

 with the exposed surface of secondaries, distinctly barred with dusky. 

 Beneath soiled plumbeous whitish ; flanks brown. Crissum banded ; 

 ground-colour of quills and tail-feathers brownish black. Length 

 5-50 inches, wing 2'25, tail 2-50 ; length of bill from nostril U*3U, 

 along gape 0-70. (Baird, Bmver, and Ilidr/tuaij.) 



Bewick's Wren, in its typical form, inhabits the South-eastern 

 United States as far west as Texas. 



8. Thryothorus spilurus. 



Troglodytes bewickii, Tmcns. Juurn. PJnlad. Acad. vii. p. 103 {nee 



Auduh.). 

 Troglodytes spihuus, Vir/ors, Zoul. Beeche\Js Voy. p. 18, pi. 4. fig. 1 ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 158 ; Bp. Consj). i. p. 2i2. 

 Thni'omanes bewickii, var. .spilurus, Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 12G. 

 Tliiyothorus bewickiii, Bniwn, Ibis, 1868, p. 421. 

 Thryothorus spilurus, Cooper, B. Calif, p. 69. 



Thrj-othonis bewickii, var. spilurus, Cuues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 86; 

 id. B. X.-Wcst, p. 31 ; Baird, Brewer, ^- Rid<,ic. Hist. X. Amer. B. 

 p. 147. 



Adult male (Eldorado City ; A. Forrer). General colour above 

 brown, excepting on the sides of the neck, which arc ashy grey ; 

 lower back and rump clearer brown than the back, and a little more 

 reddish, prettily varied with half-concealed subterminal spots of 



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