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VIII. — Descriptions of two new Species of Wrens from Ecuador. 

 By OsBERT Salvin, M.A., F.R.S. 



(Plate III.) 



The two Wrens described in this paper were both procured 

 in Ecuador through the intervention of Mr. Clarence Buckley. 

 The first [Cistotkorus brunneiceps) was obtained by Mr, 

 Buckley himself, in the neighbourhood of Sicalj a village 

 lying about twenty miles to the south-east of Cuenca, at an 

 elevation of 7000 feet ; the other [Microcerculus tceniatus) was 

 contained in a collection of birds" skins made by his corre- 

 spondent, Mr. Illingworth, in the Balzar Mountains — a range 

 lying to the north of Guayaquil, and forming a spur of the Andes 

 running in a south-westerly direction from the main chain. 



J CiSTOTHORUS BRUNNEICEPS. (Plate III. fig. 1.) 



Suprk fulvescenti-brunneus, capite summo, cervice postica et 

 uropygio unicoloribus, interscapulii plurals nigris sordido 

 albo medialiter vittatis, alis extiis et cauda distincte nigro 

 transfasciatis, superciliis et hypochondriis fulvis, genis 

 nigro irroratis ; subtiis medialiter sordide albus ; rostro 

 corneo, mandibulse basi et pedibus carneis : long, tota 

 4'5, alee 1"85, caudse 1'8, rostri a rictu Q'Q, tarsi 0'8. 

 Hab. Sicalj Ecuador [Buckley). 

 Mus. nosti-o. 



Obs. Species C. polyglotto affinis, sed crassitie majore et 

 capite summo unicolori brunneo nee striolato distinguenda. 



Of this species Mr. Buckley has sent us several specimens, 

 all agreeing together, and diifering both from C. polyglottus 

 and from the descriptions of C. (ejz^a/oria/i*, Lawr.(Ann.Lyc. 

 N. Y. X. p. 3), and of C. graminicola, Tacz. (P. Z. S. 1874, 

 p. 130), in its plain-coloured brown head, these other species 

 (if, indeed, they are difierent from C. polyglottus, which I 

 much doubt) all having the head distinctly striped. 



I at one time thought that the present bird was Mr. Law- 

 rence^s C. aquatorialis, from the fact of both coming from the 

 same country ; but I cannot reconcile the differences between 

 my bird and Mr. Lawrence^s description, especially as regards 

 the colouring of the head. 



The figure is taken from one of Mr. Buckley's specimens. 



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