234 TIMELIIDiE. 



Adult. General colour above rufous, the wing-coverts like the 

 back, the greater coverts dusky brown, externally raargined with 

 rufous ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky blackish, with a 

 very narrow rufous margin ; quills dusky blackish, edged with light 

 rufous, the secondaries externally broadly margined with the same 

 colour as the back ; tail dark ashy brown, broadly barred with 

 black, the outer feathers dusky blackish on the inner web, and only 

 barred with brown on the outer one, the outermost feather with 

 some irregular fulvous cross markings near the tip ; head dusky 

 brown, contrasting with the back, and slightly washed with fulvous 

 brown ; eyelid white, as well as a distinct eyebrow, separated from 

 the crown by a narrow black line, formed by blackish edgings to 

 the feathers ; lores and ear-coverts ashy black, the latter distinctly 

 streaked with white ; cheeks white, separated from the throat by a 

 narrow malar line of black : sides of neck ashy grey ; throat white ; 

 remainder of under surface of body light rufous-buff, browner on 

 the flanks and thighs, the breast with a faint wash of ashy : under 

 wing-coverts white, the axillaries washed with rufous ; quills dark 

 brown below, light rufous along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 6-2 inches, culmen OvS, wing 2-45, tail 2-4, tarsus 1. 



Swainson's Moustached Wren is an inhabitant of Brazil, whence 

 it ranges into Bolivia ; and the statement that the specimen in the 

 Eyton Collection came from Demerara 2'equires confirmation. 



«. Ad. sk. Brazil. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



b, c, d. Ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 



e. Juv. sk. Baliia. Purchased. 



/. Ad. sk. ■ Bolivia. Mr. Bridges [C.]. 



$f. Juv. sk. Demerara [?]. Eyton Collection. 



22. Thryothorus coraya. 



Le Coraya de Cayenne, Dauhent. PI. Enl. v. pi. 701. fig. 1. 



Barred-tailed Thrush, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 31. 



Turdus coraya, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 825. 



Thryotliorus melanos, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. (THist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 56 * ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 221. 

 Troglodytes coraya, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 158. 

 Troglodytes melanos, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 158. 

 Thryothorus coraya, Bp. Consp. i. p. 221 ; Cab. in Schomh. Reis. 



Gfuian. iii. p. 674 ; Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 21 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. 



pp. 48, 414 ; Scl. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Ar. Neotr. p. 7. 

 Pheugopedius coraya, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 79, note. 



Adult male. General colour above deep chestnut, the head and 

 nape more dusky and of a rufous-brown ; wing-coverts like the 

 back; greater series blackish, broadly edged with chestnut; bastard- 



* Yieillot's description of his T. melanos points to the species being the same 

 as the true T. coraya (Gm.) : — " Les plumes des oreilles et des joues uoires at 

 tachet^s de blanc." 



