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42. cypnoEHiNus. 291 



greater coverts externally edged with rufous-brown and spotted 

 with blackish-brown dots on the outer webs, with a few bars of the 

 same colour ; quills brown, rufous-brown on the outer webs, varied 

 with bars of blackish brown, more distinct on the secondaries, the 

 innermost of which have blackish-brown bars on both webs ; tail- 

 feathers dark umber-brown, banded across with faintly indicated 

 bars of blackish brown, about seven bars being traceable on the 

 centre feathers; head chestnut, brighter on the forehead, and shading 

 otf more into brown on the hind neck ; car-coverts and sides of face 

 bright chestnut, the upper margin of the ear-coverts blackish, sides 

 of neck conspicuously mottled with black and white, a broad streak 

 running from above the hinder ear-coverts down the sides of the 

 neck, the feathers being white in the centre with black margins ; 

 sides of neck also mottled, the feathers being black with broad 

 triangular centres of white ; throat and chest bright chestnut ; 

 remainder of under surface light ashy brown ; the sides of the 

 body earthy brown, washed with I'ufous-brown ; thighs rufous- 

 brown ; under tail-coverts barred with yellowish or reddish white 

 and dark brown ; under wing-coverts ashy brown washed with 

 rufous-brown, the edge of the wing fulvescent ; quills brown below, 

 edged with wbity brown along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 2-5, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-9. {Mus. 

 Saluhi and Godman.) 



The Spotted-necked Wren is apparently confined to Guaina. 



a. Ad. St. British Guiana. Sir R. Schomburgk. 



h. Ad. sic. British Guiana. Purchased. 



c. Juv. sk. Albina, Surinam. C. Bartlett [C.]. 



2. CyphorMnus modulator. (Plate XYIII. fig. 2.) 



Troglodytes arada, Lafr. et D'Orb. Si/n. Av. i. p. 2-5. 



Thryothorus modulator, D'Orhiyny, Voy. Amer. merid., Ois. p. 230. 



Sarocbaliuus rufogtdaris, Des Mitrs in Casteln. Voy. p. 49, pi. xvii. 



fig. 2. 

 Cyphorhinus modidator, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 6-3 ; id. Cat. Amer. 

 'li. p. 19; Scl tf Salv. E.r. Oni. p. 43 ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 693 ; iid. P. Z. .S'. 1879, p. 592 ; Salv. Sf Godm. Biol. Centr.- 



Amer., Aves, i. p. 75. 

 Cyphorhiuus phaeocephalus, Gray, Sand-l. B. i. p. 193, no. 2661 



{nee Sclater). 



Adult male (Chamicuros, December 29, 1867; E. Bartlett). 

 General colour above umber-brown ; lores and forehead chestnut, 

 the feathers faintly edged with brown and shading off into the brown 

 colour of the hinder crown and neck ; ear-coverts chestnut, the 

 upper margin dark brown ; above the ear-coverts a streak of chest- 

 nut feathers running down the sides of the nape ; cheeks and throat 

 chestnut ; remainder of under surface ruddy brown, slightly more 

 rufescent down the centre of the body and on the under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts light rufous-brown ; qiiills brown below, with 

 a narrow whity-brown edging along the inner web ; lesser wing- 

 coverts like the back; the greater scries with faint rufescent 



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