360 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA.. 



570. Troglodytes clarus. 



Venezuelan House-Wren. 



Troglodytes rufulus (nee Cab.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 258 



1881 (Bartica Grove). 

 Troglodytes furvus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 201 part (Bartica Grove) ; 



Llojd Price, Timehri (2) v. p. 66, 1891 (nest and eggs) ; Quelch, 



t. c. p. 74 (Georgetown). 

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



Grove, British Guiana) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 337, 



no. 3443, 1912. 

 Troglodytes musculus clarus Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, pp. 112, 

 ■ 120, 142, 247, 307, 379, 1910 (Georgetown, Hoorie Creek, Aremu 



Eiver, Abary Savannas). 



Adult female. General colour above,inchiding the topof the head, 

 hind-neck, back, scapulars, and wings mouse-brown, barred with 

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

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

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

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



Total length 109 mm., exposed culmen 14, wing 52, tail 36, 

 tarsus 20. 



The specimen described was collected in the Upper Takutu 

 Mountains in 1908. . 



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

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

 obsolete dark bars which are much more bold and contrasting on 



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

 brown with pale inner edges ; upper tail-coverts and tail rufous- 

 brown, conspicuously barred with bls^ck on the latter ; lores, a line 

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

 intermixed with greyish brown ; throat white like the middle of 

 the abdomen, with 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 aspect of tail similar to the upper side but paler in 

 colour. 



Total length 111 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 54, tail 36, 

 tarsus 18. 



The description is taken from an example collected on the 

 Abary River in July 1907. 



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



