294 TijiELiiD^i:. 



Adult male. General colour above umLer-brown, the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts more rufesceut ; lower wing-coverts 

 like the back ; the greater and primary-coverts and quills rufescent 

 brown externally, barred with black, more broadly on the quills 

 than the coverts, the innermost secondaries barred across both webs ; 

 quills dark brown on the inner webs ; tail-feathers dark rufous- 

 brown, barred with blackish, about nine bars being perceptible on 

 the centre ones : head of the same colour as the back, the lores 

 slightly washed with chestnut ; feathers below the eye, the fore part 

 of the' cheeks, summit of chin, and sides of the latter blackish 

 brown ; sides of the hinder crown, ear-coverts, remainder of cheeks, 

 throat, and chest bright chestnut ; breast and centre of the body 

 ashv brown, verging into rufous-brown on the sides of the body, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts, the latter being tipped with fulvous, 

 producing a slightly barred appearance : under wing-coverts light 

 chestnut : quills dusky brown below, rufescent along the margin 

 of the inner web. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 2-5, 

 tail 1-35, tarsus 1. 



Lawrence's Wren is only known from Panama and Costa Kica. 



fl. S ad. sk. Panama. Osbert Salvin, Esq. 



6. Juv. sk. Chepo, Isthmus of Panama. Osbert Salvin, Esq. 



7. Cyphorhinus thoracicus. 



Cvphorhinus thoracicus, Tschudi, Arch. f. Katurg. 1844, p. 282 ; 

 Sclater lij- Salvin, Koinencl. Av. Neofr. p. 6; Sah: 4" Godm. Biol. 

 Ce)itr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 75 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 505. 



This species is unknown to me. It was for long confounded 

 with C. modulator., but is said to have a much longer tail. 



Above dusky brown washed with pale ferruginous, the forehead 

 brighter, the face blackish ; upper wing-coverts and quills black, 

 edged with ferruginous ; under surface dusky, the throat, ear- 

 coverts, and breast intense ferruginous ; bill blackish, feet pale dusky 

 brown, the claws horn-colour; iris dusky. Total length 5" 7'". 

 {Tschudi.') 



Tschudi's "Wren is only known from Eastern Peru. 



8, Cyphorhinus dichrous. 



Cyphorhinus dichrous, Scl. i^- 8ah\ P. Z. S. 1879, p. 492, pi. xli. ; 

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



Adult (Uemedios, T. K. Salmon : type of species). General 

 colour above very dark brown, the head and nape blackish and con- 

 trasting slightly with the back ; lower back and rump blackish ; 

 upper tail-coverts dark reddish brown ; upper wing-covcrts like the 

 back, some of them washed externally with reddish brown ; quills 

 miiform blackish brown, the primaries faintly edged with reddish 

 brown ; tail-feathers uniform blackish brown ; lores blackish, as well 

 as the feathers below the eye and a line along each side of the chin 

 and the base of the lower mandible ; remainder of cheeks and ear- 



