300 TI.MELIlD^. 



more nifous-browu in colour, with more distinct dusky cross-mark- 

 ings of blackish brown. (^Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 



The Scaly-breasted Wren inhabits Colombia and Eastern Peru. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Chamicaros, Peruvian Amazons, Edward Bartlett [C]. 

 June 2S, 18G7. 



7. Microcerculus taeniatus. 

 Microcerculus taeniatus, Salvin, Ibis, 1881, p. 130, jdI. iii. fig. 2. 



Adidt (Balzar Mountains, Ecuador, Illingworth : type of species). 

 General colour abov^e brown, with faint indications of blackish 

 edgings to some of the feathers, especially on the head, which is 

 rather duller than the back : wing-coverts blackish, externally edged 

 with the same colour as the back ; quills blackish, the brown 

 margins nearly obsolete on the primaries, a little more distinct on 

 the secondaries, the innermost of Mhieh have an indistinctly barred 

 appearance ; tail blackish ; lores and ear-coverts ashy brown, with 

 a wash of clearer brown ; cheeks and throat white, with dusky 

 edgings to the feathers, giving a barred appearance ; remainder of 

 under surface of body blackish brown, barred with white, the dark 

 and light bars being about equal in width ; sides of body brown like 

 the back, barred with blackish, the under tail-coverts similarly 

 coloured ; thighs dusky brown ; under wing-coverts ashy brown 

 washed with clearer brown ; qiiills sepia-brown below, paler along 

 edge of the inner web. Total length 3"7 inches, culmen 0"75, wing 

 2-25, tail 0'9, tarsus 0"85. (Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 



Illingworth's Scaly Wren is only known fi'om the type specimen, 

 obtained in the Balzar Mountains in Ecuador. 



8. Microcerculus squamulatus. 



Microcerculus squamulatus, Scl. ^ Scdv. P. Z. 8. 1875, pp. 37, 237, 



pi. vi. 

 Microcerculus squamatidus, Salv. 4- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 



i. p. 76. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above rufescent 

 brown, slightly varied on the head with dusky margins to the 

 feathers, the upper surface otherwise uniform ; wing-coverts dusky 

 brown, edged with rufescent brown like the back, and with the 

 remains of whitish spots at the tips of the greater series ; quills 

 blackish brown, externally rufescent brown, with very faint indi- 

 cations of dusky cross bars under certain lights ; tail dark brown ; 

 lores and ear-coverts slaty brown ; cheeks and throat dull whitish, 

 with obsolete remains of duskj- margins to the feathers ; remainder 

 of under surface whitish, somewhat irregularly barred across with 

 blackish brown ; the sides of throat and of fore neck and breast 

 dark ashy brown ; the flanks and thighs rufescent brown ; under 

 tail-coverts dark brown, faintly barred with dull rufous-brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries brown like the sides of the breast ; 

 quills dusky brown below, light brown along the margin of the 



