590 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TROGLODYTES OCHRACEUS Ridgway. 

 IRAZlJ WREN. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain tawny brown (between mummy 

 brown and russet), approaching deep russet on pileum, the rump with- 

 out distinct concealed spots of paler; wing-co'verts and secondaries 

 similar in color to back, etc., the greater coverts sometimes with very 

 faint, narrow bars of dark grayish, the secondaries with more distinct 

 bars of dusky; primaries lighter and more buffy brown, more bi'oadly 

 and distinctly barred with dusky; tail more grayish brown, narrowly 

 and more or less irregularly barred with dusky ; a broad and conspic- 

 uous superciliary stripe of ochraceous-buff or light tawny -ochraceous; 

 a broad postocular streak, occupying upper portion of auricular region, 

 tawny-brown; rest of auricular region, suborbital region, and malar 

 region ochraceous-buff or light tawny-ochraceous, the chin and upper 

 throat similar but slightly paler; lower throat and chest paler ochra- 

 ceous-buff, passing into duller or more brownish buff on sides, the 

 flanks deep brownish buff or wood brown; breast and abdomen buffy 

 white, the lower abdomen more strongly tinged with buff'; under tail- 

 coverts brownish buff, tipped with buffj^ white and barred with 

 dusky; maxilla dusky horn color, with paler tomia; mandible paler 

 horn color, more or less extensivelj' paler on lower basal portion; 

 legs and feet pale yellowish brown (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but under tail-coverts immaculate brown- 

 ish bufi' and feathers of chest very faintly margined at tips with 

 dusky. 



Adtdt wiaZe.— Length (skins), 95.5-101 (99); wing, -46^7.5 (46.8); 

 tail, 30-33.5 (31.3); exposed culmen, 13.5-14 (13.8); tarsus, 17.5-18 

 (17.6); middle toe, 11-11.5 (11.3)." 



Adidt female. — Length (skin), 100; wing, 46; tail, 31.6; exposed 

 culmen, 13.5; tarsus, 17.5; middle toe, 11.* 



High mountains of Costa Rica (Volcan de Irazii) and Chiriqui 

 (Boquete, Volcan de Chiriqui, 4,000 to 4,500 feet). 



Troglodytes solsHliahs (not of Sclater) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1880, 102, part (Costa Rica; Colombia ?). — Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., VI, 1881, 260, part (Costa Rica; Antioquia, Colombia?). 



'Troglodytes{f} oclirac.eus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, sig. 21, Mar. 10, 

 1882, 334 (Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Troglodytes ocliraceus Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 3; Proo. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 105 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 

 1887, 106.— Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1884, 430 (reprint of 

 orig. descr.).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool Club, iii, 1902, 53 (Boquete, 

 Chiriqui, 4,000 j;o 4,500 ft. alt.).— Obeeholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, 

 1904, 200 (crit.). 



"Three specimens, from Boquete, Chiriqui. 

 * One specimen, from Boquete. 



