252 TIMELIIB.^B. 



broTvs long and distinct ; " bill brown above, the base of the man- 

 dible paler : feet brown with black nails ; iris brown" (Grayson). 

 Total length ■1-4 inches, bill from gape 0-8, wing 1-9, tail 1-7, 

 tarsus O'S. 



Grayson's House-Wren is only known from Sorocco Island, where 

 it is said to be the commonest bird in the place. It is stated to 

 resemble T. domesticus, but to be rather greyer in colour, and to be 

 nearly white underneath without dusky markings. 



2. Troglodytes intermedius. 



Troglodytes sp., Sclafer, P. Z. S. ISoO, p. 372. 



Troglodytes aedon (?iec V.), Scl. ^- Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 9 ; Salv. Ibis, 



1866, "p. 202. 

 Troglodytes intermedius. Cab. J.f. 0. 1800, p. 407; Baird, Eeview 



Amer. B. p. 142 ; Luxvr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. pp. 98, 199; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 191, no. 2617 ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 51 ; Sale. 



^- Godm. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Aves, i. p. lOO. 

 Trofflodvtes hypaedon, Sclater. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 128 ; id. Cat. Amer. 



B. p. 23. 

 Troglodytes inquietus, Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 93 (nee Baird). 

 Troglodytes tessellatus (pt.), Scl. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Ai: Neotr. p. 7. 



Adult male. General colour above dark earthy brown, almost 

 olive in some specimens, with faintly indicated cross bars on the 

 lower mantle and back ; on the rump some half-concealed spots of 

 silky white, edged with a subterminal bar of blackish ; the rump 

 and iipper tail-coverts rather more rufous than the rest of the upper 

 surface, the latter obsoletely barred with dusky blackish ; scapulars 

 lilvc the back, and with the same nearly obsolete bars ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, the median coverts -n-ith a tiny spot of dull white at 

 the tip ; the greater series earthy brown, distinctly crossed with dusky 

 blackish bars, not very regular on some of the inner ones ; quills 

 dark sepia, externalh' edged with rufesccnt brown, all barred nar- 

 rowly with dusky blackish, the interspaces on the primaries paler 

 and more whity brown, producing a chequered appearance ; tail- 

 feathers earthy brown, barred across with dusky blackish, the bars 

 irregular and forming spots here and there, the interspaces on some 

 of the feathers whity brown ; lores distinctly buify whitish, as also 

 an indistinct eyebrow : round the ej'e a ring of reddish buff ; sides 

 of face and cheeks butfy whitish, slightly obscured by dusky edges 

 to the feathers ; ear-coverts earthy brown, slightly varied with pale 

 fulvous centres to the feathers ; under surface of body isabelline 

 brown, rather lighter on the throat and centre of the body ; the 

 flanks and sides of the body darker and clearer eai'th-brown, with a 

 few obsolete bars on the lower flanks ; thighs uniform dusky brown; 

 under tail-coverts barred, rufesccnt in tint, barred across with narrow 

 cross lines of blackish, before which are subterminal white inter- 

 spaces on many of the feathers ; under wing-coverts dull white, 

 washed with pale fulvous on the axiUaries, the edge of the wing 

 whiter ; quills light brown below, ashy along the edge of the inner 



