BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 591 



TROGLODYTES MESOLEUCUS (Sclater). 

 SAKTA LUCIA WREN. 



Adults (sexes alilce). — Upper parts plain grayish brown or light 

 sepia anteriorly, brightening posteriorly into russet-brown on rump 

 and upper tail-coverts; rump with rather large roundish concealed 

 spots of white, the feathers dark slate color basally; wings and tail 

 brown, narrowly barred (except on smaller wing-coverts) with dusky, 

 the bars broader on primaries and outermost rectrices; an indistinct 

 superciliary stripe of pale buff or buffy whitish; lores and eyelids 

 white; auricular region light brown, streaked with buffy whitish, its 

 upper portion plain brown, producing a rather distinct postocular 

 sti'eak; malar region and under parts white, passing on sides of neck, 

 sides, and flanks into cinnamon; under tail-coverts pale cinnamon or 

 cinnamon-buff, broadly tipped with white and sparsely barred with 

 dusky, at least on the longer coverts; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 immaculate white; maxilla dusky brown, with paler tomia; mandible 

 dull brownish yellow basally (in dried skins), more or less extensively 

 dusky terminally; legs and feet brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 103-104 (103.5); wing, 53; tail, 38; 



exposed culmen, 17; tarsus, 18-18.5 (18.2); middle toe, 13-14 (13.5).« 



Adult female.— Lmgih. (skins), 102-107 (104.5); wing, 62-54 (53); 



tail, 37.5-38.5 (38); exposed culmen, 17; tarsus, 18..5-19 (18.7); middle 



toe, 13-13.5 (13.2).» 



Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 

 Thryothorus mesoleucus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, 14 (Santa Lucia, 

 Lesser Antilles; coll. P. L. Sclater) ; 1889, 395.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 V, 1880, 166.— Shaepb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 223.— Cory, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 25; Birds W. I., 1889, 39; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 19, 120, 133. 

 \_Thryothorus] mesoleucus Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 7. 



noghdyies mesoleucus Obbrholsee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, no. 1354, Jan. 

 23, 1904, 209 (crit). 



TROGLODYTES MUSICUS (Lawrence). 

 ST. VIlfCENT WREN. 



Similar to T. mesoleucus, but much larger (except bill), upper parts 

 brighter brown, and lateral under parts brighter, or more extensively, 

 cinnamon (the breast and abdomen often tinged with that color), the 

 under tail-coverts deeper cinnamon, not distinctly, if at all, whitish at 

 tips and with dusky bars reduced to spots (usually small), or often alto- 

 gether absent. 



« Two specimens. 



6Two specimens. Ten adults with sex undetermined measure as follows; Length 

 (skins), 106-110.5 (108); wing, 47.5-53.5 (50.4); tail, 33.5-38 (36.3); exposed cul- 

 men, 16-18 (17.2); tarsus, 17-18.5 (18.1); middle toe, 11.5-13,5 (12.5). 



