360 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



570. Troglodytes clams. 

 Venezuelan Hocse-Wren. 



Troglodytes r?/fiil)fs (nee Cab.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. ]Mup. vi. p. 258 



18S1 (Bartica Grove). 

 Troglodytes fnrvus Salvin, Il)is, 18S5, p. 201 part (Bartica Grove) ; 



Lloyd Price, Timehri {2) v. p. 60, 1891 (nest and eggs) ; Quelch, 



t. c. p. 74 (Georgetown). 

 Troglodytes clams Berl. & Hart. Nov. Zool. ix. p. 8, 1902 (Bartica 



Grove, British Guiana) ; Brabourne &. Chul)b, B. 8. Anier. i. p. 337, 



no. 3443, 1912. 

 Troglodytes musciilus clams Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, pp. 112, 

 '120, 142, 247,307, 379, 1910 (Georgetown, Hoorie Creek, Areniu 



Kiver, Abary Savannas). 



Advlt female. General colour above, inoludino- the topof tlie head, 

 hind-neck, back, scajnilars, and wings niouse-ljrown, barred with 

 .dull rufous-brown on the wings ; upper tuil-coverts rufous; tail 

 rufous-brown barred with black ; throat, breast, and altdonien 

 isabelline ; flanks and under tail-coverts pale tawn-colour, barred 

 with black on the latter; under wing-coverts silky-white. 



Total length 109 nnn., exposed cuhnen 14, wing 52, tail 3G, 

 tarsus 20. 



The specimen described was collected in the Upper Takutii 

 Mountains in 1908. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper parts greyish brown, 

 including the head, back, scapulars, and upper wing-coveits, with 

 obsolete dark l)ars whicli are much more bold and contrasting on 

 the outer aspect of the wings ; inner webs of flight-quills dark 

 brown with })ale inner edges ; u})j)er tail-coverts and tail rufous- 

 brown, conspicuously barred with black on the latter ; lores, a line 

 over the eye, and sides of the face isabelline-butf more or less 

 intermixed with greyish brown ; throat white like the middle o£ 

 the abdomen, witii a wash of pale fawn-colour on the breast, 

 becoming deeper on the sides of the body; under tail-coverts 

 orange-buff barred with black ; under wing-coverts buffy-white 

 with dark .shaft-streaks to the feathers ; under surface of quills 

 brown ; lower asi)ee't of t.iil similar to the upper side but paler in 

 colour. 



Total length 111 nnn., exposed cuhnen 12, wing 54, tail 36, 

 tarsus 18. 



The description is taken from an example collected on the 

 Abary Uiver in July 1907. 



Jnv. Differs from the adult described in being much darker on 



