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quills sepia-brown, notched with rufous-brown externally and barred 

 with blackish brown, the inner secondaries barred across, the inner- 

 most barred down the length of the feather; centre tail-feathers 

 rufcscent brown, chequered with zigzag black bars which are not 

 conterminous, the remainder dusky brown on the inner web, barred 

 with rufous-brown and blackish on the outer ; lores dusky ; a rather 

 broad eyelid and a ring of feathers round the eye light fulvous ; 

 cheeks and ear-coverts fulvous, the feathers edged with dull brown ; 

 the upper part of the ear- coverts uuiform dark brown ; throat and 

 chest rufous-buff, the breast dull white, the sides of the body fulvous 

 brown, deepening on the lower Hanks ; under tail-coverts buffy 

 "white, barred across with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 like the breast; quills dusk}' brown below, whitish along the edge 

 of the inner web. Total length 3-25 inches, culmen 0-G, wing 1"85, 

 tail 1"5, tarsus 0-75. 



Considerable variation takes place with regard to the depth and 

 intensity of the rufous colouring on the face and breast, which is 

 much richer in some specimens than in others. 



The Eufous-necked House- Wren is said to occur throughout the 

 Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and extends through Colombia to Costa 

 Kica. 



a. (5' ad. sk. Antioquia, U.S. of Colombia. T. K. Salmon, Esq. [C]. 



Subsp. a. Troglodytes frater. 



Troglodytes solstitialis, Scl. 4- Sah: P. Z. S. 1879, p. 523 (nee Scl.). 



Adult. Similar to T. sohiiiialis, but differs in the eyebrow and 

 eyelid being white instead of rufous or buff, and in the whiter axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts. Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-6, 

 wing 1-95, tail 1-G, tarsus O'S. 



The White-browed Kouse-Wren replaces the foregoing species in 

 Bolivia. Whether it is this race which inhabits Peru I am not able 

 to say, not having examined a specimen from the latter country. 



a. Ad. sk. Boli%-ia. Mr. Bridges [C.]. 



9. Troglodytes brunneicollis. 



Troglodvtes hvemalis, Scl. P. Z. S. I80G, p. 290. 

 Troglodytes aedoii Y, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 3G3. 

 Troglodytes brunueicollis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1H58, p. 297, 1859, p. 372; 



?V7. Cat. Amer. B. p. 23; td. P. Z. S. 18()2, p. 18: Poird, Per. Amer. 



B. p. 144; Scl. ^- Sah. Ex. Orn. pi. xxiii. lig. 2; Grai/, Uand-l. B. 



i. p. 191, no. 2Gi3 ; Sumichr. Mem. Bvst. Soc. N. H. i. p. 545 ; Salv. 



<S|- Godman, Biol. Cvntr.-Atner., Aves, i. p. 103. 

 Hylemathrous brunueicollis, Cab. J. f. O. 18G0, p. 40G. 



Adult m(de. General colour above rufous-brown, a little browner 

 on the head, the feathers of the head rather pointed ; back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts with nearly obsolete cross bars, the rump 

 with concealed spots of silky white ; wing-coverts brown, the median 

 coverts with white spots at the tip ; greater coverts a little more 



