ZOOLOGY. 



Description of a New Wren erom Eastern Florida.— Thry- 

 othorus Ludovicianus (Lath.), var. Miamensis, Ridgw. Florida 

 Wren. Diagnosis.— Similis T. ludoviciano, sed major, robustior, 

 et coloribus saturatioribus. Alse, 2-75; caiida, 2-60; culmen, 

 •90 ; tarsus, -95 ; dig. ined. (sine ungue), -60. 



Hab. in Florida orientate (Miami River, Jan., 1874, C. J. May- 

 nard). Typns No. 1864, Mus. R. R. 



Similar to T. Ludovicianus (Lath.), but larger, stouter, and 



the back, and becoming browner on the forehead. Wings and 

 tail with indistinct, narrow, dusky bars, and rump with concealed 

 white spots; a wide post-ocular stripe of dark rusty on the 

 upper half of the auriculars, running back into the rusty of the 

 nape. Below deep rusty ochraceous, the sides and flanks showing 

 indistinct bars of darker rusty: chin and crissum soiled whitish, 

 the latter banded with dusky black ; a continuous superciliary stripe 



side of the pileum : checks grayish soiled white, with faint cres- 

 centic bars of dusky. Bill dusky, the superior tomium and lower 

 mandible pale (lilaceous in life?); feet pale horn color. Wing, 

 2-75; tail, 2-60; culmen, -90; tarsus, -95 : middle toe (without 

 the claw), -60. 



Habitat.— Miami River, eastern Florida (January 9, 1874; C. 

 J. Maynard). Type No. 1864, Mus. R. R. 



Remarks.— In coloration, this strongly-marked form closely 

 resembles T. Berlandieri Baird of the lower Rio Grande (see Hist. 

 N. Am. B., I, p. 144, pi. ix, fig. 2), but the size is greatly larger 

 than even the most northern examples of Ludovicianus proper, 



