TROGLODYTES S O L S T I T IA L I S ,
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TROGLODYTES SOLSTITIALIS,
(JiQUAIOEIAl RTiES,
Troglodytes solstitialis Sc la ter, P.Z.S. 1858, p. 5 5 0 ,18G0, p. 84, e t Cat. Am, Birds, p. :
S u p ra ru fe see n ti-b nm n e u s nnicolor, alis e t e audà n ig ro tran s fa sc ia tis : nro p y g ii maculis albis celatis n u llis :
supereUiis d ia tin c tis e t la te rib u s c ap itis fulvis : su b tu s fulvus, v e n tre medio albicante, crisso uigro tran s fa sciato :
long, to ta S O, a l» 1'9, caudte 1'3, ta rs i 0'8.
S a l . in rep u b l, JE q u a to r. (Fraser): Bog o ta (Mua. P.L .S .).
This Kttlo Wren was one o f Mr. Fraser's discoyeiaes dnring his expedition to Ecuador,
in 1867 and the following years. The species was met with in June 1858, in the lucinity of
Matos and Pinipi,— two little villages on one o f the upper branches o f the Pastazza, some dozen
leagnes or so from Eiobamba, and probably rather below 10,000 feet above the sea-level.
Two examples only were obtained, which were noted b y Mr. Fraser as having the indes
“ dark-hazel.” Other skins were subsequently procured near Nanegal m the same republic,
and Air. Sclatcr’s collection contains a single example o f the same bird from Bogota, so that it
probably inhabits the wliole o f the elevated disti-icts o f N ew Granada and Ecuador.
Troglodytes solstitialis is a smaller and shorter-winged species than the common T. fiirvus
o f South America, which it generally resembles. It is also o f a darker and more ^ ifo rm
rufous above— and the beily is mucli lighter, nearly white in the middle. The ground-colour
o f the tail in the present species is dark-brown like the back, and the black bands are closer
and more numerous. The crissum is banded, which is not the case in Troglodytes furvus, and
there is a very distinct superciliary stripe, which is nearly evanescent m the allied species. ^
Our figure o f this species is taken from one o f the tjqiical specimens from Ecuador m
Sclater’s collection. It is marked “ male,” hut the sexes are hi all probability identical.
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