MARCH 16, 1903 Vor. IV, PP. 3-4 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW WREN FROM SAN MIGUEL ISLAND, BAY 
OF PANAMA. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
As I several times already have had occasion to state, the birds 
collected by W. W. Brown, Jr., on San Miguel Island, Bay of Pan- 
ama, in April and May, 1900, were not compared with sufficient 
care, when I published a list of them,’ with material of corre- 
sponding dates from the mainland; and since then I have felt 
obliged to describe several of them as new forms. 
Lately, on re-examining the wren of the island, and carefully 
comparing it with a fine series of true Ziryophilus galbraithi Lawr. 
from the adjacent mainland, I have found it to differ considerably, 
and I propose for it a new trinomial, characterized as follows : — 
Thryophilus galbraithi conditus’ subsp. nov. 
Type, from San Miguel Island, Bay of Panama, g adult, no. 4944, coll. of 
E. A. and O. Bangs, collected May 4, 1900, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 
Characters.— Similar in general to true Zhryophilus galbraithi, but slightly 
larger; upper parts decidedly redder, less olivaceous brown — in the new form 
almost russet, in true 7: galbrazthi almost bistre; sides of breast, belly, flanks 
and under tail coverts,much brighter reddish brown — deep tawny in the island 
bird, dull tawny-ochraceous in true 7. galbraithi. In the new form the feathers 
of the back have a tendency to show rather distinct dusky cross-bars. These 
1Auk, Vol. XVIII, pp. 24-32, Jan., rgor. 
2 Conditus — close, concealed. 
