SCLATER'S WOOD WREN 



9. Henicorhina p. prostheleuca (Sclater) 

 Sclater's Wood Wren 



Henicorhina prostheleuca piitieri STONE, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 272. 



Sexes alike. Length 100 mm. (4.00 in.); 

 tail 25 mm. (i.oo in.). Top of head brown; 

 sides of head and neck velvety black variously 



FIG. 88. Henicorhina p. prostheleuca 

 (Nat. Size) 



streaked with white; tail russet barred with 

 black; wings barred black and chestnut brown, 

 the feathers of the blackish greater coverts 

 tipped with a small white spot; a narrow stripe of 

 white over the eye; throat, chest, middle of 

 breast and abdomen white; sides of breast gray; 

 flanks and under tail coverts tawny. Bill black. 



A small, very short-tailed, rather brightly 

 colored wren, inhabiting the underbrush of thick 

 jungle and well shaded forest. It has a two- 

 syllabled inquiring call of agreeable tone and a 

 rather high-pitched, clear, whistled song of which 

 there are several variations. Tuee hewhew re- 

 peated several times is one of the common 

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