13. TROGLODYTES AURICULARIS, Cab.

(EARED WREN.)

+Troglodytes (Uropsila) auricularis+, _Cab. Journ. f. Orn._ 1883, p.

105, t. ii. fig. 1.

_Description._--In habit and size near the European Wren, _T.

parvulus_, but peculiar for the blackish-brown hinder half of the

ear-coverts and its broad white superciliaries. Upper surface and

flanks brown; throat and middle of belly whitish, tinged with

brownish yellow; wings and tail with fine black cross bands; crissum

with broader black and white cross bands. (_Cabanis._)

_Hab._ Tucuman.

This is a recent discovery of Herr Schulz in the Sierra of Tucuman. We

have not yet met with specimens of it.

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