. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 280 TIMELTID^. white; tail rufous, barred with bhickish, about nine narrow bara being perceptible on the centre feathers ; lores and sides of face smoky brown, mottled with fulvous spots, indistinct on the lores, but plainer on the checks; the ear-coverts streaked narrowly with fulvous ; throat light sandy buif, deepening in colour on the breast and abdomen; the whole under surface mottled with triangular whitish spots, which are brought into relief by dusky central spots, all the feathers bordered by a thin dusky line and freckled with minute do
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 280 TIMELTID^. white; tail rufous, barred with bhickish, about nine narrow bara being perceptible on the centre feathers ; lores and sides of face smoky brown, mottled with fulvous spots, indistinct on the lores, but plainer on the checks; the ear-coverts streaked narrowly with fulvous ; throat light sandy buif, deepening in colour on the breast and abdomen; the whole under surface mottled with triangular whitish spots, which are brought into relief by dusky central spots, all the feathers bordered by a thin dusky line and freckled with minute dots of dusky blackish; the flanks rather browner than the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and axillaries reddish brown, slightly mottled â with dusky bars ; quills dusky brown below, ashy along the margin of the inner web, and showing some fulvous bars towards the ends ; " biU horn)' brown ; legs pale browji; iris brown " {Jerdon). Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 1'75, tail 1-25, tarsus 0-7. (^Miis. R. G. Wurdlaiv Kamsay.) The Spotted Wren is only found in the neighbourhood of Darjiling, â¢where it is very rare. 38. CATHERPES. â Type. Catherpes, Baird, Birds, p. 356 (1858).... C. Bill of Catherpes mexicanus. Range. Southern United States and Mexico. Kei/ to tJie Species. a. Throat and chest white. a'. Above blackish brown; wings and tail sparsely sprinkled with minute white specks, which are absent on the head and neck mexicanus, p. 280, v. Above cinnamon-ashy, more reddish on rump and wiDgs; head and neck above with numerous spots of white; very few of these on baxk and wings. (Bidr/nai/.) .... conspersus, p. 282. b. Throat and chest rufous, with a greyish tinge., sumichrasti, p. 282. 1. Catherpes mexicanus. Troglodytes mexicanus, Livht. Preis- Verz. mex. Voff. 1830, p. 2; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 159; Cab. 0. 1863, p. 57. Troglodytes murarius, Licht. JPi-eis- Verz. mex. Vog. 1830, no. 80; Cab. O. 1863, p. 57. Thryothorus mexicanus
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