292 TISIELIIDJE. 



margins barred across with narrow lines of diiskj- brown : primary- 

 coverts brown, with a few indications of darker brown bars ; quills 

 dajk brown, barred on the outer web with fulvous brown and 

 blackish brown, the bars on the quills broader than on the wing- 

 coverts, the inner secondaries barred right across both webs ; upper 

 tail-coverts a little more rufesceut than the back ; tail-feathers 

 brown, barred across with blackish brown, about seven bars visible 

 on the centre tail-feathers. Total length 5-1 inches, culmen 0'8, 

 wing 2-G5, tail 1-45, tarsus 0"95. 



The Rufous-breasted Wren is found in Upper Amazonia, extending 

 into Bolivia. 



a. (f ad. sk. Chamicuros, Eastern Peru, E. Bartlett, Esq. [C.]. 



December 29, 1867. 



3. Cyphorhinus salvini. (Plate XVIII. fig. 1.) 



Cvphorhinus modulator. Gray, Hand-L B. i. p. 193, no. 2658 (nee 

 'I)' Orb.). 



Adult. General colour above dark umber-brown, from the nape 

 to the upper tail-coverts, the latter being faintly washed with rufous- 

 brown ; least and median wing-coverts like the back, but sUghtly 

 washed with ochraceous brown ; greater coverts dark brown, with 

 faintly indicated bars of reddish brown on the outer web ; quills 

 dark brown, barred with reddish brown on the outer web of all ex- 

 cept the first and second primaries ; tail-feathers dark brown, with 

 faint indications of iiifous-brown cross bars under certain lights ; 

 crown of head chestnut, the hinder feathers tii^ped with brown where 

 they adjoin the nape ; lores chestnut with yellowish bases ; ear- 

 coverts dark brown, with faintly indicated rufous-brown shaft-lines; 

 above the ear-coverts a streak of rufous-buff running down the sides 

 of the hind neck ; cheeks and throat chestnut : rest of under surface 

 of body umber-brown, paler in the centre and washed with rufous 

 on the thighs and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts pale 

 xuf ous-brown ; quills dai-k brown below, narrowly edged with rufous- 

 brown along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5*5 inches, 

 culmen 0-75. wing 2-65, tail 1-45, tarsus 1. 



Salvin's Wren replaces C. modulator in Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. Rio Napo. Purchased. (Type of species.) 



4. Cyphorhinus phseocephalus. 



Cyphorhinus phseocephalus, Scluter, V. Z. S. 1860, p. 291 ; id. Cat. 

 Amer. B. p. 19 ; Set. <^- Salv. Ex. Orn. pi. xxii. ; iid. Nomend. Av. 

 Neotr. p. 6; Salv. ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 75. 



Adult male (Esmeraldas, Ecuador, September 1859, L. Eraser: 

 type of species). General colour above dark rufous-brown, with con- 

 cealed dusky bars on the back and scapulars, the rump more 

 decidedly chestnut-brown ; crown blackish, shading off on the nape 

 into the brown of the back ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater 

 coverts bari'ed with blackish brown : primary-coverts uniform dusky 



