. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 39. SPHENOCICHLA. 283 numerous dusky bands ; the abdomen relieved by small white spots surrounded with black: flanks indistinctly banded; vent blackish brown ; upper mandible blackish, the lower mandible whitish at tlie base ; feet blackish. Total length (without tail) 5 inches, bill from gape 1-2, wing 2-75, tarsus 1-2. (2Ius. Smithson.) ^ Sumichrast's 'White-throated Rock-Wren is only known from a single specimen obtained at Mata Bejuco, in Vera Cruz, Mexico. The above description is translated from the diagnosis of the (at present unique) type
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 39. SPHENOCICHLA. 283 numerous dusky bands ; the abdomen relieved by small white spots surrounded with black: flanks indistinctly banded; vent blackish brown ; upper mandible blackish, the lower mandible whitish at tlie base ; feet blackish. Total length (without tail) 5 inches, bill from gape 1-2, wing 2-75, tarsus 1-2. (2Ius. Smithson.) ^ Sumichrast's 'White-throated Rock-Wren is only known from a single specimen obtained at Mata Bejuco, in Vera Cruz, Mexico. The above description is translated from the diagnosis of the (at present unique) type specimen given by Messrs. Salvm and Godman, who have also lent me a coloured figiu'e of the bird. 39. SPHENOCICHLA. ^ Heterorhynchus, Mandelli, Str. F. i. p. 415 (1873) (nee ^ ^ ^"fi'-). â â S. huniii. bphenocichla, Walden, Ibis, 1875, p. 250 S. liumii. Stachyrirhynclius, Hiime, Str. F. 1876, p. 217 S hiimii. Head of Sphenocich/a humii. 1. Sphenocichla humii. Heterorhynchus humii, Mandelli, Str. F. , p. 415. Sphenocichla roberti, S,- Wald. Ihis, 1875 p -^oO ⢠Hume Str. F. 1876, p. 217; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 95. ' ^-" ' Stachyrirhj-nchus roberti, Htone, Str. F. 1876, p. 217, note ⢠id. Str F. 1871), p. 95. Adult (Xative Sikhim, April 1875; Mandelli). General colour above scaly, the feathers being brown in the centre, edo-ed with black, the feathers of the head and mantle with buffv-white shaft- lines, less distinct on the lower back and rump, the "dorsal feathers indistinctly waved with narrow blackish cross bars ; upi^cr tail- coverts reddish brown, narrowly barred with indistinct blackish cross lines; wing-coverts like the back, edged and obscurelv barred in the same manner ; some of the greater coverts more ochraccous brown towards the tips ; quills blackish brown, obsoletelv bari-ed with lighter brown and black externally, the bars a little more distinct towards the end of the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts and tail rather more reddi
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