BIRDS — LIOTEICHIDAE — CHAMAEA FASCIATA. 



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streaks of dusky on the throat and breast. Sides and under tail coverts tinged with olive brown. Lores and a spot above the 

 eye obscurely whitish. Tail feathers with obsolete transverse bars. Length, 6 inches ; wing, 2.25 ; tail, 3.50. (5924.) 

 Hab. — Coast of California. 



This curious species is very different in appearance from the North American wrens. The 

 colors are very simple, and the female differs from the ahove description only in being rather 

 smaller and with the reddish of the under parts less distinct ; the whitish spot over the eye 

 scarcely recognisable. 



List of specimens. 



1 Length, 6.76 ; Extent, 7.00 ; Iris, white. 



