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20. Thryothorus mystacalis. 



TliiTotliorus mystacalis, Sc/afer, P. Z. S. 1800, pp. G4, 74; id. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 22 ; Scl. Sf Salt: Noiiw/icL Av. Xentr. p. 7. 

 Troglodytes mystacalis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. leO, no. 2584. 



AduJt. General colour above bright, bay, the -vnng-cov^rts like 

 the back ; quills blackish brown, externally edged with rufous, the 

 secondaries more broadly, tlie innermost shaded with rufous ; tail- 

 feathers mfous-brown, narrowly barred with black, about thirteen 

 being discernible, though many of them are wavy and broken up, 

 especially on the outer feathers ; head dull slate-colour, the hind 

 neck and sides of the latter lighter grey, slightly shaded with reddish 

 brown ; lores dusky ; a distinct white eyebrow running from the 

 base of the nostrils to above the ear-coverts, narrowly margined 

 with black along its upper edge ; car-coverts white, streaked 

 with black, the upper edge with a broad black streak; cheeks 

 creamy white, bordered both above and below with a black line, 

 the malar stripe being very broad and distinct : throat creamy 

 white ; fore neck and breast ashy grey ; remainder of under surface 

 of body ochreous brown, as also the thighs, which have a few re- 

 mains of dusky bars ; under tail-coverts rufous : under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries pale rufous, the greater ones near the edge of the 

 ■wing dusky ; quills dusky brown, rufescent along the «dge of the 

 inner web. Total length 6-7 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 2-8, tail 2-9, 

 tarsus 1-05. (Mitg. SaJvin and Godman.) 



Adult female. Similar to the bird described above (a presumed 

 male). Total length 6 inches, culmeu O-So, wing 2-5, tail 2-65, 

 tarsus 1-05. 



Ohs. The birds described are a fine pair, collected in Colombia by 

 the late Mr. T. K. Salmon, and are now in the collection of Messrs. 

 Salvin and Godman. Ecuadorean skins are quite the same ; but a 

 skin from Bogota, in the possession of the same gentlemen, is rather 

 different, being darker both above and below, with the fore neck 

 and chest dark ashy brown, the ear-coverts neaiiy uniform black, 

 and the moustachial streak very broad. 



The Moustached Wren inhabits Ecuador, and ranges into Xew 

 Granada. 



a. Ad. sk. Tallatauga, Ecuador. L. Eraser, Esq. [C.]. 



21. Thryothorus genibarbis. 



Sphenura corayn, Licht. Verz. Duuhl. p. 42 (nfc Gin.). 

 Myinthera coraya, Spi.v, Av. Bra.i. p. 7^3, pi. 73. fig. 2 (nee Gm.). 

 Tliryotliorus coraya, Kiuiclcd, Bci/r. yaturg. Bi-as. iii. p. 754. 

 Tliryothorus genibarbis, Sicaiiis. An. in Mcna;/. p. Pt'22. 

 Piieugopedius coraya, Cnh. Miif. Ilcin. Tli. i. p. 7!> (nee Gm.). 

 riu'ugnpcdius genibarbis, Bnrm. Tli. Bras. ii. -p. LS-'j. 

 Thryothorus mdanos (nee V.), Sclafer, Cat. Amer. B. p. 21 : Pe/z. 



6rn. Bras. pp. 48, 414; <S(7. c^- Sak: KomcucL Ar. Xeofr. p. 7. 

 Troglodytes nielanos («ec V.), Gray, IIand-1. B. i. p. 189, no. 2.58.3. 



