43. MICROCERCTTLTTS. 297 



rather browner on the outer edge of the primaries ; tail-feathers 

 blackish brown, the centre one indistinctly barred under certain 

 lights : lores and feathers round the eye ashy brown ; car-coverts 

 dark ashy washed with brown ; cheeks ashy white ; throat pure 

 white ; fore neck and breast ashy grey, slightly mottled with cross 

 lines of dusky, some of the feathers with subtermiual bars of ashy 

 whitish in the centre of the breast ; sides of body, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts reddish brown, barred across with narrow blackish 

 markings, less pronounced on the under tail-coverts ; thighs dusky 

 brown, washed with reddish brown ; under wing-coverts ashy brown, 

 with a slight wash of clearer browu ; quills dusky brown below, 

 paler and more whitj'^ brown along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 4-1 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-55, tail 1-2, tarsus 1-0. 

 (^Miis. Salvin and Godman.) 



Young. In general similar to the adult, but having the blackish 

 edgings to the feathers of the upper surface more distinct ; the 

 white band on the wing somewhat tinged with ochraceous buff; 

 underparts paler than in the adult, the breast light ashy, very di- 

 stinctly barred with dusky brown. (Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 



The Western White-banded Wren occurs only in Eastern 

 Ecuador. 



3. Microcerculus philomela. 



Ruisenor, Salvin, Ibis, 1861, p. 144. 



Cyphorhiuus philomela, Sahnn, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 202 ; id. Ibis, 1861, 



p. 352 ; Grot/, Hiind-l. B. i. p. 193, no. 2663. 

 Microcerculus philomela, Baird, Revieic Amer. B. i. p. 114 (part). 

 Microcerculus philomela, Sclater Sf Salv. Xotnencl. Ai\ Neotr. p. 6 j 



Sah. 4" Godm. Biol. Centr.-Ainer., Aves, i. p. 76, tab. v. fig. 3. 



Adidt male (type of species). General colour above brown, the 

 feathers edged with blackish, producing a somewhat seal}' ap- 

 pearance ; head dusky brown, darker than the back, the feathers 

 edged with blackish and inclining to lighter brown in the centre of 

 the crown ; least wing-coverts like the back ; median coverts 

 blackish, with a subterminal bar of brown, and a spot of huffy 

 white on a few of the feathers ; greater coverts black, externally 

 edged with brown, and having a small triangular spot of white just 

 before the tip of the feather ; (juills blackish, externally mnrgined 

 with dull ashy brown ; tail-feathers blackish : lores and ear- 

 covcrts ashy washed with brown ; cheeks and under surface of body 

 dull ashy, mottled all over with cross-markings of dusky brown, 

 the feathers being brown at the base and on the margins, with a 

 subterminal band of ashy, although the latter is the prevailing 

 colour ; sides of body brown, with dusky margins to the feathers ; 

 under tail-coverts blackish, barred with brown ; under wing-coverts 

 dusky brown, the feathers edged with clear brown ; quills dusky 

 browu below, slightly paler along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-2, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-85. 

 (J/((«. Salvin and Godman.) 



