2QQ TIMELIiDJE. 



36. SALPINC 



Salpinctes, Cubanis, Arch. f. Xatunj. xiii. p. 323 (1847). S. oL^oletus. 



36. SALPINCTES. rpy^^^ 



■Foot of Salpinctes obsoletus. 



Ranqe From the Rocky Momitaius southwards through the 

 highlaiids of Mexico to Guatemala. Island ot; Guadaloupe. 



1. Salpinctes ohsoletus. 



Troglodytes ohsoletus, Say in Lonifs Krped. liocky Mts.u. j.j 

 (1823); Audub.JJ.Amer.-pLccdx.; td. Om. Lmp:ivi.U. , id. 

 B. Amer. 8vo, ii. p. 113, pi. 110 ; Gray Gen. B i. p. lo8. 



Myiothera obsoleta, Bp. Amer Orn. i. p 6, pi. i. hg. -. 



Ti-oglodytes latifasciatus, Lwht P^-eis-Jerz.mex.loy. (18o0) p. . , 

 Gran Gen B i. p. 158 ; Cab. J. f. O. 18G3, p. 57. 



Th^Soms o£oMus, B;. Comp. IMB. Bur^^ N. Amer. p. 11. 



Troglodytes obsoleta, XuttaU, f ««• 18^2, p. 42o. 



i p. 224; Balrd, B. N. Amer. p. 35^ ; Sol. P. Z. S. 18oJ, p 3/ 1 



^r«rer, !<f Ridyw. Hist. N. Amer. B. p. 135 pi. 8 fig. o , toue,, 



B^scSor. t4p.159; Salv..^- Godm. Brol. Centr^r^, Aves, 



i. p. 71; Bkhiw. Bull. U.S. Xaf. Mus no. 21, p. 14 (1&81). 



Cyphorhiuus obsoletus, Gray, Hand-l. £. i. p. 194, no. 2b/ o. 



Adult (leUowstone Eiver, Dr. F. V. Haydcn). General colour 



above dark ashy grey, mottled with_ spots ot -^^f ' -™^^ '.[J 



subterminal blackish spot; rump cmnamon-rufous with the same 



snots as on the back, but not so distinctly indicated; upper tail- 



coverts brown, varied with blackish bars, and having white spots 



suUcrminally 'relieved with black exactly hke the back; centxe 



tail-feathers light brown, barred across with blackish brown, the 



fpsptle cinnamon vermicnlated with blackish; the remainder ot 



the tail-feathers ashy brown, pale cinnamon at the tip, before wh ch 



is a broad black band, the ashy brown portion of he feather al.o 



flintlv barred with blackish brown ; outer tail-feather with three 



bars of pale cinnamon, the tip vermiculated with black; lesser 



^ing-coverts like the back; the median and greater c^overts and 



m & rather clearer brown than the back, barred with blackish 



br wn, and tipped with the same white spots as the back excepting 



on The primaries, where the bars are scarcely i^rceptible on the 



outer web, and there are no white spots at the tip; head like the 



back but the spots smaller and more rounded; lores and a narrow 



