2G0 TIMELIID^. 



white ; greater series lighter and more sandy in appearance ; quills 

 dusky brown, barred with darker brown, and chequered with light 

 sandy brown spots and notches externally ; the dusky cross-markings 

 on the secondaries particularly coarse in character ; tail-feathers light 

 sandy brown, regularly barred with blackish brown, about ten bars 

 being perceptible on the centre feathers, where they are not strictly 

 conterminous ; lores and feathers at gape dull white ; feathers over 

 the eye and eyelid pale reddish brown ; ear-coverts mouse-brown, 

 with a slight reddish tinge ; cheeks and under surface of body light 

 rufescent brown, deepening on the flanks and under tail-coverts, 

 the latter tipped with white and barred with black, the bars not 

 always traversing the feather ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white, washed with the same rufescent brown as the breast ; quUls 

 light brown below, whitish along the inner web. 



Peru. Two specimens from Arequipa, collected by Mr. H. Whitely, 

 are of rather large size and very pale coloration both above and 

 below, and they are very tliickly mottled with cross bars on the 

 mantle and back. Though not so thickly barred on the under tail- 

 coverts as some of the Central- American Wrens, they yet approach 

 them somewhat in general appearance. 



Total 



length. Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



in. in. in. in. in. 



a. Ad. Areqiiipa (7f. imtely) 5-2o 0-65 2-1 1-85 0-75 



0. S ad. Arequipa (H. Whiteh/) 5-0 0-6o 2-15 1-75 075 

 y. Ad. Paucatambo {H. 



Whitely) 4-8 065 2-1 1-9 0-75 



The third specimen appears to be young. It has uniform tawny 

 buff under tail-coverts, without spots or bars ; the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts are strongly washed with tawny, and the tail is some- 

 what more rufous than the other two Peruvian skins. Although 

 much resembling the brown-chested white-bellied race from British 

 Guiana, it may be told by its isabeUine throat and under surface. 



The Banded House- Wren is an inhabitant of tho highlands of 

 Peru. 

 a. Ad. sk. Arequipa, June 13, 1867. H. Whitely, Esq. [C.]. 



8. Troglodytes solstitialis. 



Troglodytes solstitiaUs, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. ASO ; id. Cat. Amer. 



B p. 23 ; Scl. ^- Salv. Ex. Orn. pi. xxiii. tig. 1 ; Grw/, Harul-l. B. 



i. p. 191, no. 2622 ; Taczan. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 505 • Scl. ^- Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 493, 593 ; Salv. 8r Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., 



Aves, i. p. 102. 

 Hylemathrous solstitialis, Cab. J.f. O. 1860, p. 406. 



Adult. General colour above reddish brown, the head of the 

 same colour as the back ; on the back and on the scapulars a few 

 indistinct dusky cross-markings ; the upper tail-coverts distinctly 

 barred across with narrow black lines ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like the back, the greater series barred with dusky blackish ; 



