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rufous externally than the hack, with a small spot of bufFy white at 

 the tip ; quills blackish brown, externally rufous-brown, barred 

 narrowly with black, the inner secondaries barred across, the pri- 

 maries externally chequered with fulvous spots ; tail-feathers rufous- 

 brown, very narrowly barred across with black, the black bars having 

 a faint conterminous bar of pale fulvous brown, the outer feathers 

 dusky brown on the inner webs, which are slightly mottled with 

 darker brown bars of an irregular kind ; lores dull white, with dusky 

 edges to the feathers ; a very broad eyebrow of rufous-buff, the 

 feathers slightly mottled with dusky edges, producing a somewhat . 

 scaly appearance ; eyelid rufous-buff; ear-coverts dark brown, 

 streaked with rufous-buif on the lower part of the latter ; cheeks 

 rufous, the anterior feathers mottled with dusky brown ; throat and 

 breast light rufous, paler on the breast and abdomen, the latter 

 having a few transverse dusky bars ; sides of body rufous-brown, the 

 lower flanks white at the ends and narrowly barred with wavy lines 

 of blackish ; thighs darkbi'own ; under tail-coverts rufescent, tipped 

 with white, and barred across with blackish ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries light rufous, the outer coverts mottled with dusky 

 bases to the feathers ; quills light ashy below, whitish along the 

 edge of the inner web. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 

 2-0, tail 1-S, tarsus 0-75. 



Young. Very similar to the adult, and rufescent below, but darker 

 on the upper surface and mottled underneath, the feathers of the 

 breast and sides edged and barred with blackish, producing a some- 

 what banded appearance ; under tail- coverts nearly uniform rufous ; 

 throat and centre of breast and abdomen paler, and more of a fulvous- 

 white colour, obsciu'el}- barred with dusky blackish. 



Hah. The Brown-necked House- Wren is an inhabitant of Southern 

 Mexico. 



a. Juv. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



h. (S ad. sk. La Parada, Mexico. M. B<iucard [0.]. 



c. Ad. sk. La Parada. M. Salle [C.]. 



Subsp. a. Troglodytes rufociliatus. 



Troglodytes brunneicollis, Scl. ^- Salv, Ibis, 1800, p. 27-3 (jiec ScL). 



Adult male (Upper Chirostemon Eorest, Yolcan de Fuego, Guate- 

 mela, alt. 10,000 feet : 0. Salvin). Similar to T. hnmneicollis, 

 from Mexico, but everywhere darker, especially on the tail, which 

 is dark rufous-brown, barred with black ; the under surface of 

 the body is deep orange-rufous, as also the sides of the neck and 

 eyebrow, the flanks marked and banded as in T. hrunneicolUs. 

 Total length 4-4 inches, cidmen Ooo, wing 1-S5, tail 1'5, tarsus 

 0-7. (J/hs. Salvin and Godnutn.) 



Young. Differs from the adult in being lighter and more rufes- 

 cent, the back barred with dusky blackish, and the feathers of the 

 head having blackish margins ; the under surface plentifully mottled, 

 all the feathers being margined with dusky blackish. (Mus. Salvia 

 and Godman.) 



