57. EIlODmOCICHLA. 367 



Female. Similar to the male, but having the eyebrow and the 

 under surface of the body deep satfrou or tawny rufous. 



Young. All over blackish, with a few rufous edges to the wing- 

 coverts ; underneath mottled like a young Blackbird, the feathers 

 sandy buff with broad black edges ; the centre of the abdomen 

 somewhat whiter ; over the eye a broad streak of white. {Mus. 

 Salvin and Godman.) 



The Eose-breasted Wren is common in Ycnezuela, Colombia, and 

 the State of Panama. It has been found also in Costa llica, and is 

 supposed to have been sent once from Guatemala, but on very 

 doubtful authority. 



a. Ad. sk. New Granada. Edward Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. New Granada. Purchased. 



c. Imm. sk. Santa Fe de Veragua Osbeit Salviu, Esq. 



(E. Arce). 



2. EhodinocicMa scMstacea. 



llhodinocichla rosea, /3. schistacea, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Kat. Hits. i. 

 p. 247. 



Above clear slate-colour, the wings darker, with paler, nearly 

 cinereous edges to the feathers ; lores and auricidars dark slate ; 

 entire sides clear slate, becoming more ashj' on the flanks. Adidt 

 male : A continuous superciliary stripe, the anterior half of which 

 is intense rose-red, the posterior half rosy white ; chin, throat, 

 malar region, middle of the jugulum, breast, and abdomen, and the 

 whole erissum, pure beautiful rose-red, most intense on the jugulum, 

 narrower and paler on the abdomen ; edge of the wing and anterior 

 lesser coverts also pure rose-red ; lining of the Aving partly greyish 

 white. Adidt femah : Similar, but the red replaced by rich 

 tawny rufous, the middle of the abdomen whitish. liill horn- 

 yellowish, the maxilla mostly dusky ; iris red or brown ; feet dark 

 horn-colour. Length 8-25 inches, wing 3-4.5-3-00, tail 3-75-3-DO, 

 bill from nostril -GO-'Go, tarsus 1-00, middle toe •70-'75. (Hidrjiuay.) 



Eidgway's llose-breasted Wren is a representative of the foregoing 

 bird in Western Mexico, where it has been found in the Sierra 

 Madrc of Colima and in ilazatlan. 



