2S6 TIMELIID^. 



Range. Central America from Mexico southwards to South 

 America as far as Guiana, Amazonia, Peru, and Bolivia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat and breast pure white ; bastard- wing 

 spotted with white. 

 «'. Head brown, the sides of the crown black. . prostheleuca, p. 286. 



b'. Head black all over leucosticta, p. 287. 



h. Throat whitish ; fore neck and breast ashy 



grej' ; no white spots on bastard wing. . . . kucojiJiri/s, p. 288. 



1. Henicorhina prostheleuca. 



Scytalopus prostheleucus, Svlater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 200. 

 Cyphorhinus prostheleucus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 18.58, pp. 64, 96, 



1859, pp. 363, 372 ; Scl. l^ Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 397 ; Scl. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 20 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 193, no. 2668. 

 Heterorhina prostheleuca, Baird, Pevieto Amer. B. p. 116. 

 Cyphorhinus leucostictus, La^or. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 320, ix. p. 92. 

 Microcerculus leucostictus, Scl. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 345. 

 Thryothorus leucostictus, Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 134. 

 Henicorhina leucosticta, Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 181 ; Scl. ^ Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 6 (pt.) ; Salv. ^ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., 



Aves, i. p. 79. 

 Heterorhina leucosticta (pt.), Sumichr. Mem. B. Soc. N. H. i.p. 545. 



Adult. General colour above light chestnut-brown, rather clearer 

 on the rump and upper tail- coverts ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 the lesser series dark grey ; the bastard wing and some of the outer 

 greater coverts edged and spotted with white near their tips ; 

 p:imary-coverts dusky brown, with narrow rufous-brown edgings ; 

 quills dusky brown, the primaries notched with fulvescent brown, 

 the secondaries externally rufous-brown, barred with blackish ; 

 tail-feathers rufous-brown, rather broadly barred with black ; head 

 and nape light brown in the centre, slightly olivaceous, the sides of 

 the crown black, forming a broad streak on each side of the paler 

 crown ; lores and a broad streak above the ear-coverts black, 

 surmounted by a white eyebrow, which extends from the base of 

 the bill to the sides of the nape ; sides of face and ear-coverts black, 

 streaked with white ; sides of neck black, with ovate spots of white, 

 giving a streaked appearance ; checks white, separated from the 

 throat by a narrow black moustache ; throat, breast, and centre of 

 abdomen white ; the sides of the breast ashy grey ; flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts rufous-brown, the thighs washed with ashy; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries dull white, slightly mottled with 

 dusky bases to the feathers ; quills dusky brown below, ashy along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-7, 

 wing 2-2, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-85. 



The White-breasted Wren is found in the lowland hot forests of 

 Central America, from Southern Mexico through Guatemala and 

 Costa Eica, and Veragua and Panama. 



a. Ad. sk. Cordova, Mexico. M. A. Salle [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Purchased. 



