240 TIMELIId. 



Troglodytes rutilus, Gray, lland-I. B. i. p. 180, no. 2o86 {nee V.). 

 Thrvolhoru3 hypervthriis, .S'«/('. ^- Goihn. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 

 i/p. 91. 



Adidt (Paraiso Station, Panama ; A. Hugches : type of species). 

 General colour above brown, slightl}' olive iu tint, tbe head light 

 rufous-broyvn ; lesser wing-coverts like the back : median and greater 

 coverts brown, externally edged with lighter brown ; upper wing- 

 coverts like the back, barred across with blackish : tail ashy brown, 

 slightly washed with the same colour as the back, barred with black, 

 about ten bars being discernible ; lores white, as also an eyebrow, 

 which is separated from the crown by a narrow line of black ; ear- 

 coverts blackish, longitiidiually streaked with white; checks and 

 throat black, largely spotted with white, having the appearance of 

 being barred with black, except in the centre of the throat, where 

 the white predominates ; sides of neck ashy ; lower throat, breast, 

 and abdomen orange-brown, lighter on the abdomen ;" sides of body 

 slightly shaded with brown ; under tail-coverts white, barred with 

 blackish ; under wing-coveits white, the axillaries tinged with 

 orange-buff; quills light brown below, fulvescent along the inner 

 web. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 2-15, tail 2, 

 tarsus 0"8. (J/ws. Scdvin and Gudman.) 



The Orange-breasted Wren represents the previous species in the 

 State of Panama. 



a. c? ad. sk. Santiago de Veragua (U. Arcc). Osbert Salvia, Esq. 



32. CISTOTHORUS. ^^ ^ 



Cistothorus, Cahanis, Mus. Ihin. Th. i. p. 77, note (1850) C. stellaris. 

 Telmatodytes, Cahanis, torn. cit. p. 78, note (1850) C. palustris. 



Leg of Cistothorus palustris. 

 Banrje. The whole of the Ifew World. 



Key to the Species. 



Crown uniform brown, with a black band along 



each side of it. 

 «'. Upper and under tail-coverts uniform, without 



any cross bars; the latter sometimes represented 



by' a few nearly obsolete spots palustris, p. 241. 



h'. Upper and imder tail-coverts very distinctly 



barred paludicola, p. 24i 



Crown longitudinally streaked with fulvous or white. 

 c'. Lower hack and rump streaked with black or 



white or yellowish buff. 



