288 TIi!ELIIDJ5. 



in Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador, ranging into Eastern 

 Peru. Cabanis described his species from Guiana and Mexico ; but 

 his description shows that he took the black-headed species for his 

 type. 



a,h. S 9. ad. sk. Bartiea Grove, Demerara, Henry Whitely [C.]. 



Januaiy 1880. 

 c. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Clarence Buckley [C.]. 



3. HenicorMna leucophrys. 



Troglodytes leucophrys, Tschudi, Arch. f. Natiirg. x. pt. i. p. 283 ; 



id. Faun. Pentan. p. 185. 

 Troglod\i:es guttatus, Hartl. Syst. Verz. d. Ges. Mtis. Brem. p. 28. 

 Cvphorhinus leucophrys, Cah. Arch. f. Katurg. 1847, pt. i. p. 206; 

 "^ Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 20 ;' Lmvr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 92 ; Scl. Cat. 



Am. B. p. 19 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 194, no. 2(372. 

 Cyphorhinus prostheleucus, Scl. (§• Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 272 (wee 



'Sclater). 

 Cyphorhinus griseicollis, Scl. <§• Salv. Jbis, 1860, p. 397 (nee. Lafr.) ; 



Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 193, no. 2669. 

 Heterorhina griseicollis, Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 117 {nee. Lafr.). 

 Heterorhina leucophrys, Baird, t. c. p. 118. 

 Henicorhina leucophrys, Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 181 ; Scl. 8f Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 6 ; Salv. ^- Gudm. Biol. Ce7itr.-Amer., 



Aves, i. p. 80. 



Adult male. General colour above chestnut-brown, the head more 

 dingy than the back, the sides of the crown being blackish ; wing- 

 coverts dusky, externally like the back ; bastard- wing featliers 

 edo-ed with paler or more fulvous brown ; quills blackish brown, 

 with the outer webs of the same colour as tlie back, chequered 

 externally with blackish notches on the ])rimaries, which become 

 bars on the secondaries ; tail-feathers reddish brown, mottled with 

 irregular blackish bars and markings ; a very distinct white eye- 

 brow, running from the base of the bill to the sides of the nape ; 

 lores and a broad streak along the upper edge of the ear-coverts 

 black ; sides of neck black, mottled with oval spots of white ; sides 

 of face white streaked with black, with which the feathers are 

 edged ; throat dull white, with a few indistinct edgings of black to 

 the feathers ; the lower throat, fore neck, and breast ashy grey, 

 the centre of the abdomen inclining to ashy whitish ; sides of the 

 body, flanks, and under tail-coverts rufous-brown ; under wing- 

 coverts light ashy, the edge of the wing mottled with spots of white ; 

 the axillaries ashy, somewhat washed with brown; quills dusky 

 below, inclining to ashy along the inner web. Total length 4-5 

 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 2-3, tail 1-5, tarsus O-Oo. 



Adult female (Frontino, T. K. Salmon). Similar to the male 

 described," but a little more rufous on the upper parts and the abdo- 

 men ; wing-^ and tail rather more distinctly barred with blackish. 

 Total length 4-5 inches, culmen Q-Go, wing 2-2, tail 1-45, tarsus 

 0-9. {Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 



