510 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



HELEODYTES ZONATUS ZONATUS (Lesson). 

 BANDED CACTTTS WREN, 



Adults {sexes alike). — Feathers of pileum black centrally, broadly 

 margined with pale brownish gray (smoke gray to buffy drab-gray), 

 producing a more or less distinctly squamate appearance; hindneck 

 broadly streaked with black and buffy white or very pale buff; back 

 and scapulars broadly barred or banded with black and buffy white or 

 pale tawny-buff, sometimes strongly suffused with the latter; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts more or less pronouncedly tawny, more or less 

 distinctly barred with black or dusky; middle rectrices pale grayish 

 brown, with more or less distinct indications of black or dusky broad 

 spots along or near margin, sometimes distinctly (though not continu- 

 ously) banded, rarely immaculate; remaining rectrices black, their 

 outer webs with distinct broad spots of pale grajdsh buff, or dull 

 whitish, forming regular bands across the tail (interrupted by middle 

 rectrices), their inner webs with corresponding spots, decrea'sing in 

 size and distinctness toward the middle rectrices; wings black, nar- 

 rowly banded with white or buffy, the black interspaces at least 

 twice as wide as the whitish or buffy bands; a superciliary stripe of 

 white or buffy white; a more or less distinct narrow postocular streak 

 of dusky, or a broader one of light grayish brown streaked with black; 

 suborbital, auricular, and malar regions white, the last narrowly 

 streaked with black, the rest (especially malar region) usuallj^ with 

 narrow squamate markings of the same; chin, throat, chest, and breast 

 white, passing into dull tawnj^-ochraceous on abdomen, sides, flanks, 

 anal region, and under tail-coverts; throat, chest, and breast marked 

 with rounded, ovate, cordate, or broadly guttate spots of black, the 

 remaining (tawnj') under parts usually immaculate, but occasionally 

 with a few black spots or other markings on flanks, abdomen, or 

 under tail-coverts; maxilla blackish or dusky horn color, with paler 

 tomia; mandible dull buffy whitish or very pale buffy brownish (in 

 dried skins); iris brown," cinnamon-red,* or gray;'' legs and feet pale 

 yellowish horn color (in dried skins). 



Young. — Very different from adults; pileum uniform black; back 

 and scapulars dull black marked with streaks or broad guttate spots of 

 light brown (raw umber to wood brown), the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts uniformly of the latter color; wings and tail as in adults but 

 the paler bands light brown or cinnamon instead of whitish; super- 

 ciliary stripe dull brownish buff or pale isabella color; a black post- 

 ocular streak; sides of head below eye and postocular streak-, chin, 

 throat, and chest, dull brownish white, sometimes mottled with sooty 

 grayish; rest of under parts plain dull light cinnamon. 



a Dr. C. Sartorius, manuscript. iiProf. F. Sumichrast. cjiev. H. Th. Heyde, 

 manuscript. 



