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TIMELIIDJE. 



axillaries wliite, barred with black, slightly tinged also with reddish ; 

 quills dusky browu below, ashy white along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 0-S5, wing 2-8, tail 2-3, tarsus 1. 



Obs. Specimens from Bogota (whence came Lafresnaye's type) 

 in the collection of Messrs. S.ilvin and Godman and the British 

 Museum agree with the Eemedios skin. 



The Banded-bellied "Wren inhabits iS'ew Granada and Colombia, 

 a, b. Ad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. 



15. Thryothorus albigularis. 



Cyphorhinus albigularis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 185.5, p. 76, pi. Ixxxviii. 

 Pneugopedius fasciatoventris, Baird, Sevieiv Amer. B. i. p. 134 (nee 



ia/r.). 

 Cyphorhinus fasciatoventris, Laicr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 320. 

 Thryothorus fasciatoventris, Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 19 ; Scl. ^ Salv. 



P. Z. S. 18(34, p. 346 ; Salv. Sf Goclm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 



i. p. 90 (pt.). 



Adult male (Lion Hill, Isthmus of Panama ; M'Cleannan). Similar 

 to T. fasciativentris, Lafr., and, like that species, banded with white 

 on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, but distinguished by the 

 uniform ashy-black ear-coverts. Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 

 0-85, wing 2-6, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-95. 



The Black-eared Banded-bellied Wren replaces the foregoing 

 species in the Isthmus of Panama. 



a. Ad. sk. Paraiso Station, Isthmus of Osbert Salvin, Esq. 



Panama {A. Hughes). 



16. Thryothorus melanogaster. (Plate XIV. fig. 2.) 



Thryothorus fasciatoventris, Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 180 (nee Bafr.) ; 



Salv. ^- Goclm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 90. 

 Pheugopedius fasciativentris (?iec Lafr.), Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. 



p. 92 ; Von Fra?itziit^, J. f. O. 1809, p. 291. 

 Troglodytes fasciativentris, Gray, Lland-l. B. i. p. 189, no. 2.58.5 {nee 



Lafr.). 



Adult male (Bugaba, Chiriqui ; E. Arc^). General colour above 

 rather bright rufous, the head duller and browner, the upper tail- 

 coverts narrowly barred with black ; upper wing-coverts like the 

 back, the greater series with indistinct dusky bars ; quills brown, 

 externally edged with rufous, indistinctly barred with dusky on the 

 outer web, these bars going right across the inner secondaries ; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, barred Mith rufous, several of the bars being 

 irregular ; base of forehead dusky ; lores white ; a narrow Avhite 

 eyebrow, as also a small streak under the eye ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts white, the upper edge only of the latter blackish ; cheeks, 

 throat, and chest white ; remainder of under surface uniform black, 

 with a few indications of rufous bars on the lower flanks, and of 

 whitish bars on the lower abdomen ; thighs rufous ; under tail- 

 coverts black, narrowly barred with rufous ; under wing-coverts 



