504 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(or the former only) more or less streaked or clouded with light gray- 

 ish brown; length (skins), 165-191 (178); wing, 78-85.5 (81.7); tail, 

 76-80 (78); exposed culmen, 21-21.5 (21.2); tarsus, 25; middle toe, 

 16-17 (16.5)." 



Isthmus of Panama (Panama; El Real, Darien; Loma del Leon; 

 San Pablo; Frijole Station), north to Veragua. 



Heleodytes albo-brunnms Lawkence, Ibis, 1st ser., iv, Jan., 1862, 10 (Lion Hill, 



Panama R. E. ; coll. G. N. Lawrence). 

 Heleodytes albobrunneug Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 470 (Lion Hill). — 

 ScLATERand Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 344 (San Pablo, Panama 

 E. E.). 

 ICampylorhynchus} albobrunneus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 5. 

 Campylorhynchus albibrunneus Baird, Eeview Am. Birds, 1864, 98 (Frijole Sta- 

 tion, Panama B. E. ). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 1, 

 1880, 63 (Veragua; Frijole, Lion Hill, and San Pablo stations). — Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 188. 

 IDonacobm} albobrunneus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 193, no. 2632. 



HELEODYTES CHIAPENSIS (Salvin and Godman). 

 CHIAPAS CACTUS WREN, 



Apparently similar to IT. capistratvs but larger, and with the four 

 middle rectrices barred with black and chestnut. 



Adults. — Above chestnut, the pileum, hindneck, ana postocular stripe 

 black; wings blackish, outwardly chestnut, lightly barred with black; 

 elongated superciliary stripe and under parts of body white, the flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts pale isabella color; under wing-coverts 

 white; tail black, with a subterminal band of white, diminishing in 

 width toward middle rectrices; four middle rectrices externally chest- 

 nut, barred with black to the base; maxilla black, mandible pale, 

 feet plumbeous; length, 195; wing, 86; tail, 76; bill to rictus, 35.5; 

 tarsus, 29.* 



State of Chiapas, southern Mexico (Tonala). 



Messrs. Salvin and Godman compare this species with H. griseus and 

 H. Mcolor, of South America," and state that "from O. cqpistratus 

 . . . the new bird is so different that comparison is unnecessary." It 

 is unfortunate they did not state in just what particulars of coloration 

 it differs from the last-named species. 



Campylorhynchus chiapensis Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 6tli ser., iii, Oct., 1891, 

 609 (Tonala, Chiapas, s. w. Mexico; coll. Salvin and Godman). 



HELEODYTES CAPISTRATUS CAPISTRATUS (Lesson). 

 HOODED CACTUS WREN. 



Adults in sum.mer. — Pileum uniform black; hindneck plain chestnut 

 or dark cinnamon-rufous, becoming darker on nape, where adjoining 

 black of pileum; back and scapulars dull chestnut or cinnamon-rufous, 



o Two specimens. 



''Free translation of the original description, in Latin, with measurements con- 

 verted into millimeters. 



