280 TIMELTID^. 



white ; tail rufous, barred with bhickish, about nine narrow bara 

 being perceptible on the centre feathers ; lores and sides of face 

 smoky brown, mottled with fulvous spots, indistinct on the lores, 

 but plainer on the checks ; the ear-coverts streaked narrowly with 

 fulvous ; throat light sandy buif, deepening in colour on the breast 

 and abdomen ; the whole under surface mottled with triangular whitish 

 spots, which are brought into relief by dusky central spots, all the 

 feathers bordered by a thin dusky line and freckled with minute dots 

 of dusky blackish ; the flanks rather browner than the abdomen ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries reddish brown, slightly mottled 

 ■with dusky bars ; quills dusky brown below, ashy along the margin 

 of the inner web, and showing some fulvous bars towards the ends ; 

 " biU horn)' brown ; legs pale browji ; iris brown " {Jerdon). Total 

 length 4-6 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 1'75, tail 1-25, tarsus 0-7. 

 (^Miis. R. G. Wurdlaiv Kamsay.) 



The Spotted Wren is only found in the neighbourhood of Darjiling, 

 •where it is very rare. 



38. CATHERPES. „ 



Type. 

 Catherpes, Baird, N.-Amer. Birds, p. 356 (1858) .... C. mexicanus. 



Bill of Catherpes mexicanus. 

 Range. Southern United States and Mexico. 



Kei/ to tJie Species. 



a. Throat and chest white. 



a'. Above blackish brown ; wings and tail 



sparsely sprinkled with minute white 



specks, which are absent on the head and 



neck mexicanus, p. 280, 



v. Above cinnamon-ashy, more reddish on rump 



and wiDgs ; head and neck above with 



numerous spots of white ; very few of 



these on baxk and wings. (Bidr/nai/.) .... conspersus, p. 282. 



b. Throat and chest rufous, with a greyish tinge., sumichrasti, p. 282. 



1. Catherpes mexicanus. 



Troglodytes mexicanus, Livht. Preis- Verz. mex. Voff. 1830, p. 2 ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 159; Cab. J.f. 0. 1863, p. 57. 

 Troglodytes murarius, Licht. JPi-eis- Verz. mex. Vog. 1830, no. 80 ; Cab. 



J.f. O. 1863, p. 57. 

 Thryothorus mexicanus, Swains. ZooJ. Illuslr. 2nd ser. i. p. 11 ; B2}. 

 Consp. i. p. 221. 



