238 TTMELIID,^i. 



27. Thryothorus paucimaculatus. 



Adult (Ealzar Mountains, Ecnador ; Illingworth). General colonr 

 above rufcscent brown, the head more rufons than the back ; ■wing- 

 coverts like the back ; quills dusky brown, edged with rufous-brown, 

 lighter on the edges of the primaries ; tail-feathers ashy brown, 

 barred with black, about eight bars being visible on tlie centre 

 feathers, most of them broken up and irregular, the light bars 

 whitish on their extreme edges ; a broad and distinct white eye- 

 brow drawn from the base of the nostrils to the sides of the nape, 

 the feathers being margined with diisky ; lores and sides of face 

 ■white, narrowly streaked with black ; the upper edge of the ear- 

 coverts ashy brown, forming a broad stripe ; cheeks and throat 

 white, separated from each other by a narrow black malar stripe ; 

 remainder of under surface of body ashy white, the fore neck and 

 chest with a few sparsely distributed blackish bars, the breast 

 spotted with black ; sides of breast ashy, the sides of the body and 

 flanks light fulvous brown ; under tail-coverts white, barred with 

 black ; under wing-coverts white ; quills dusky brown below, whitish 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 

 0-7, wing 2-15, tail 2, tarsus 0'8. (3Ius. Salvin and Godman.) 



This species is represented at present by a single specimen from 

 the Ealzar Mountains in Ecuador, in the collection of Messrs. Salvin 

 and Godman. 



28. Thryothorus sclateri. 

 Thryothorus sclateri, Tacx. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 222. 



Adult (Colombia ; Yerreaux). Very similar to T. maculipectus, but 

 distinguished by the bars on the under surface being continued over 

 the whole throat, and by the sides of the breast and the sides of the 

 neck being ashy grey ; the tail also is ashy grey, with about ten 

 black cross bars. Total length 4-9 inches, ciilmen 0'75, wing 2-4, 

 tail 2-1, tarsus 0*75. (Mns. Salvin and Godman.) 



Sclater's "VVren ranges from Northern Peru into the U. S. of 

 Colombia. 



29. Thryothorus rutilus. 



Thryothoriis rutilus, Vieill. JVouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 55 ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 221; Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 134; Sclater, Cat. 



Amer. i?. p. 21 ; Scl. Sf Sal v. Numencl. Av. Neotr. p. 7. 

 Thryothorus rutilans. Swains. B. Brazil 8,- Mexico, pi. 15. 

 Pheugopedius rutilans, Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 135. 

 Troglodytes rutilans, Loot. Ois. Trinid. p. 173. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, a little more rufous on 

 the head and neck r wing-coverts like the back ; quills light sepia- 

 brown, washed externally with clearer brown like the back, with 

 faintly indicated dusky cross bars ; upper tail-coverts like the back, 

 barred across with dusky blackish ; tail-feathers ashy brown, shaded 

 with clear brown like the back, barred across with black, these bars 

 about ten in number, some of the interspaces whitish on the edges 



