54 BANGS — CHIRIQUI BIRDS EN 
nostril to neck ; lores and region below the eye and lower part of cheeks white 
with slight dusky specklings; a stripe behind eye (between the white cheeks 
and the superciliary stripe) brown; sides of neck mottled with whitish — the 
white markings narrowly bordered with dusky; throat, breast and middle of 
belly white with slight dusky specklings; flanks and under tail coverts brown 
(a shade about between raw umber and burnt umber); scapulars brown with 
longitudinal white shaft spots bordered by dusky; some of the greater coverts, 
marked in the same way; wings dusky brown, outer edges of primaries white 
notched with dusky; outer edges of rest of feathers pale burnt umber notched 
with dusky; bend of wing and lining of wing grayish white; tail dull raw 
umber, banded and freckled with dusky; legs and feet dark brown; upper 
mandible blackish; lower mandible blackish at tip, yellowish toward base. 
Young, in nestling plumage, differ from adults in being paler brown above; in 
having the superciliary stripe and the markings of sides of neck more yellow- 
ish and not so pronounced; and in having the throat, breast and middle of 
belly thickly freckled with dusky — each feather having a dusky tip. 
MEASUREMENTS (in millimeters). 
Sex Exposed 
No. and age Wing Tail Tarsus culmen 
8631 & ad. 47.5 28.0 22: 13.0 
8632 & ad. 48.0 29.0 23.0 14.0 
8633 & ad. 48.0 28.5 2255 13.0 
8634 & ad. 48.5 31.0 22:5 13.0 
8635 OFad: 45-0 27.0 ehes eas 
8636 a ad: 47-5 32.0 23:07 47 © aieas 
Remarks.— Mr. Brown found this peculiar little wren wholly 
confined to the cane brakes on top of the Volcan de Chiriqui, 
where it was very hard to shoot, though in considerable numbers. 
It lived much after the manner of a marsh wren, and its song and 
notes were wholly unlike those of any wren Mr. Brown is familiar 
with. 
In placing the species in the genus Z7og/odytes, which I do with 
much hesitation, I may be wrong. Probably, some day, the bird 
must have a peculiar genus made for it. Z7oglodytes, as at pres- 
ent understood, is pretty composite, and it is better to let some 
one divide it into groups in a thorough manner, than to propose a 
new genus for this bird now. 
In coloration 7! drown? suggests some species of Zhrvothorus 
