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Mus., no. 4, 1876, 13 (Dondominguello, Oaxaca). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 66.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 

 193.— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 75 (Cinco Senores, Oaxaca).— 

 Ferrari-Pekez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 135 (Chietla, Puebla). 

 [Campylorhynchus'] jocosus Solater and Salvin, Nona. A v. Neotr., 1873, 5. 



HELEODYTES GULARIS (Sclater). 

 SPOTTED OACTTTS WREN. 



AdulU {sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck brown (between mummy 

 brown and prouts brown), the feathers dusky beneath the surface, 

 fading in midsummer plumage to paler and grayer, brown (between 

 hair brown and Isabella color), especially on forehead; upper back or 

 extreme lower hindneck black, each feather with a mesial streak of 

 pale buff or buffy white; back and scapulars brown (much like color 

 of pileum), variegated with whitish or pale buffy triangular spots 

 (about three on each feather), these usually connected by a narrow 

 (sometimes broad) mesial streak, the space between the whitish or 

 buffy spots largely occupied by more or less transverse spots of black; 

 rump similar in coloration to back, but markings much less distinct; 

 upper tail-coverts brown, broadly barred with dusky and narrowl3'^ 

 (sometimes indistinctly) barred with pale brownish buff'y or whitish; 

 four middle rectrices pale grayish brown, narrowly barred or trans- 

 versely spotted with dusky; remaining rectrices with inner webs plain 

 dusky, broadly tipped with dull white, this extensively clouded with 

 pale grayish brown and sometimes more or less broken by irregular 

 black markings," their outer webs transversely spotted or broadly 

 barred with black and pale buffy grayish brown ; wings brown, con- 

 spicuously variegated by transverse black spots or bands, the inter- 

 spaces paler and more buffy (sometimes partly whitish) on primaries 

 and larger wing-coverts, the middle coverts with a small terminal tri- 

 angular spot of white; a broad superciliary stripe of buff or buffj^ 

 white, continued in broken streaks on sides of hindneck; a broad 

 postocular stripe of dark brown, occupying upper half of auricular 

 region; sides of neck broadly streaked with dark brown or blackish 

 and buff or buffy white; suborbital and malar regions and lower half 

 of auricular region white or buffy white, the latter usually finely 

 streaked with dusky; a distinct submalar streak of black; under parts 

 buffy white (more decide'dly white in worn breeding plumage), pass- 

 ing into cinnamon-buff on flanks, anal region, and under tail-coverts, 

 the buffy posterior portions barred with deeper cinnamon-buff or cin- 

 namon-rufous; breast and sides marked with roundish, cordate or 

 broadly guttate spots of black, these sometimes wanting on median 

 portion of breast, sometimes extending over lower chest; flanks and 



" S(jmetime.s there are one or two broad bars or transvi-rse spots anterior to the 

 terminal space, and separated from the latter by a black band or spot. 



