42. CTPHOEHINUS. 293 



brown ; quills dark brown, externally rufous-brown banded with 

 black ; upper tail-coverts chestnut-brown, faintly barred with 

 blackish ; tail-feathers dark brown, barred with rufous-brown ; 

 lores, feathers below the eye, base of lower mandible, and a narrow 

 edging to the chin black ; throat and breast, as well as the re- 

 mainder of the cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of hinder crown, and sides 

 of neck, deep rich chestnut ; centre of the body pale brown, the sides 

 ruddy brown as also the thighs ; under tail-coverts reddish brown, 

 with faintly indicated dusky bars ; under wing-coverts light chest- 

 nut ; quills dusky brown below, pale reddish buff along the inner 

 web. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen OSo, wing 2-5, tail 1-4 

 tarsus 0-95. (Mas. P. L. Sdater.) ' 



Adult female. Similar to the male and of the same dark colour, but 

 the black of the head not extending quite so far towards the nape. 

 Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-4, tail 1-25, tarsus 

 0-95. (Mus. P. L. Sdater.) 



The Dusky-headed Wren is apparently confined to Ecuador. 



5. Cyphorhinus brunnescens. 



Cyphorhiuus phajoceplialus, Sel. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 496 inec 

 Hdater). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, rather more rufescent 

 on the lower back and rump and upper tail-coverts ; head rather 

 more dusky brown than the back, the forehead with somewhat 

 lighter shaft-streaks ; scapulars like the back, but with dusky bars 

 of blackish, exactly like the lesser wing-coverts : greater coverts and 

 quills more dark brown, externally rufous-brown, barred with 

 blackish brown, the inner secondarie's regularly barred across ; tail- 

 feathers rufous-brown, barred across with blackish brown more or 

 less irregularly ; lores, feathers round the eye, fore part of cheeks, 

 chin, and sides of upper throat, as weU as the feathers below the 

 eye, blackish ; ear-coverts, sides of crown, sides of neck, hinder part 

 of cheeks, throat, and breast chestnut-red ; the rest of the under 

 surface ochraceous brown washed with rufous, the sides of the body 

 browner, the under tail-coverts barred with blackish brown ; under 

 wing-coverts light chestnut, the outer coverts ashy brown washed 

 with chestnut ; quills dusky brown below, whity brown along the 

 edge of the inner web ; " iris dark" {T. K. Salmon). Total length 

 4-8 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 2-45, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-95. {Mus. 

 Salvinand Godnum.) 



Salmon's Wren replaces the foregoing species in the Cauca valley. 



6. Cyphorhinus lawrencii. 



Cyphorhinus cantau.«, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 293 {nee Gm.). 

 Cypliorliinus lawrencii, Sdater, Ann. Lye. Neic York, viii. p. 5 ; 



Lour. op. (it. p. o, ix. p. 9l> ; Baird, ihview Anier. B. p. 113 ; Scl. 



Sf- Sale. P. Z. S. 18(J4, p. 345; iid. Exotic Orn. p. 41, pi. xxi. ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 193, no 2{JU0 ; Scl. Si Salv. Xomencl. Av. 



Keotr. p. ; Salv. 8f Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 75. 



