31. THEYOinoRrs. 237 



throat by a broad malar stripe of black : chia white ; throat and 

 fore neck dull white, obscured with broad black margins ; remainder 

 of under surface dull fulvous brown, the sides of the body more 

 rufous, as also the under tail-coverts ; the breast slightly varied 

 with a few cross bars of dusky brown ; under wing-covcrts rufous ; 

 quills dusky brown, margined with rufous-bufF along the inner web. 

 Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-9n, wing 2-7, tail 2-6, tarsus 

 I'Oo. (Alus. Salviii and Godman.) 



Eraser's Wren is apparently confined to Ecuador. 



20. Thryothorus maculipectus. 



Thrvothorus maculipectus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 338; Sclafer, 

 P. Z. S. 1850, p. 290, 1859, pp. 363, 372 ; &•/. 4'- 6ah. Ibis, 18(30, 

 p. 30; ScL Cat. Amer. B. p. 21 ; Scl. 8,- Sale. P. Z, S. 1870, p. 83G; 

 iid. Xo»ie/icl. Ai\ Xeotr. p. 7; Lmcr. Pull. U.S. Xat. Mus. no. 4, 

 p. 13 ; S(dv. 4'- Godm. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 92. 



Pheugopedius maculipectus, Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 135; Sumichr. 

 Mem. Bust. Soc. JS\ II. i. p. 545. 



Troglodytes maculipectus, Gray, Hand-J. B. i. p. 180, no. 2587. 



Adult male. General colour above rather reddish brown, the head 

 decidedly more rufous ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater 

 coverts and outer aspect of quills slightly more rufous than the 

 back: inner aspect of quills dusky brown; upper tail-coverts 

 slightly baiTed with dusky ; tail-feathers ashy brown, towards the 

 base rufescent brown like the back, crossed with twelve or thirteen 

 blackish bands ; lores and feathers round the eyes yellowish white ; 

 a tolerably distinct . eyebrow of white feathers, bordered on the 

 upper edge with black, which separates this eyebrow from the 

 crown ; cheeks and ear-coverts white, longitudinally streaked with 

 black ; throat white, with very distinct black streaks extending on 

 to the fore neck ; the chest and entire breast white, barred across 

 with black, the feathers having a broad margin or irregular mar- 

 ginal spots of black ; lower breast and upper abdomen more minutely 

 spotted with black ; sides of breast and flanks and thighs rufous- 

 brown ; under tail-coverts white or buff, with black cross bands ; 

 under wing-coverts white, with dusky bases to the feathers ; axil- 

 laries ashy gre)' ; quills dark brown below, whitish along the edge 

 of the inner web. Total length 5-1 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-3o, 

 tail 2, tarsus OSo. 



The Spotted-breasted Wren is distributed throughout Central 

 America, from Mexico to Guatemala and Honduras. 



a, b. Ad.; c. Juv.sk. Central America. Purchased. 



d. Ad. sk. Central America. Purcha.sed. 



e, f, [/. Ad.sk. (luatemala. M. Boucard. 



Ii, i. Ad. sk. Vera Paz, Guatemala. Osbert Salvin, Esq. [C.j. 



k. Ad. St. Honduras. Mr. Dyson rC.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Honduras. Mr. Dyson [C.]. 



