. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 204 TIMELILDiE. The FiUvous-uapcd Cactus-Wren is only known from Trinidad and Venezuela. a. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Eyton Collection. 21. Campylorhynchus pardus. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) Campylorliyncliuspardus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 271; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 17, note; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 192, no. 2642 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 321; Scl. ^" Salv. Notnencl. Av. Neutr. p. 5. Adult. General colour above white and black, the whole of the mantle black streaked with white, the feathers being irregularly white in the centre ; back, rump, and upper tail
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 204 TIMELILDiE. The FiUvous-uapcd Cactus-Wren is only known from Trinidad and Venezuela. a. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Eyton Collection. 21. Campylorhynchus pardus. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) Campylorliyncliuspardus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 271; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 17, note; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 192, no. 2642 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 321; Scl. ^" Salv. Notnencl. Av. Neutr. p. 5. Adult. General colour above white and black, the whole of the mantle black streaked with white, the feathers being irregularly white in the centre ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts barred with black and white; head pale ashy brown, the head streaked with black, a few of the frontal plumes barred with black ; wipg-coverts black, barred with white, the greater series having two broad white bars ; quills blackish brown, spotted with white externallj', the inner secondaries with large white spots on both webs, forming an almost complete bar across the feather; tail-feathers dark brown, with large ashy-white markings on the centre feathers, reaching nearly across the feathers so as to form a bar; the remainder of the feathers spotted on the outer web, notched on the inner one, these markings increasing in size on the outer feathers, where they nearly fonn cross bars ; a distinct white eyebrow from tlie base of the bill to the side of the nape ; lores, feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, and cheeks pure white, with a narrow line of black along the upper margin of the ear-coverts; throat pure white; remainder of under surface of body white, with small rounded black spots on the fore neck and breast, these spots much larger on the flanks and under tail-coverts, the thighs barred ; under wing-coverts white, minutely spotted with blackish, the axillaries streaked with the same; quills brown below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6-6 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 2-75, tail 3, tarsus 0-9. The Striped Cactus-Wren is only known from Col
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