C. zonatus 18 May 12 1 mi. N Fortin', 3200ft., Veracruz In a coffee & banana plantation along the Huetaxco-Fortin highway. A few large trees with sepiiflyte, and rather numerous orange trees in addition to fields of coffee. The few remaining original trees are located in small, shallow gullies or in small patches - but even there there are coffee bushes below, forming an understory. Wrens were not common. I had a pair in one of the thicker patches of trees but I hunted in several other areas seemingly as well suited for wrens without finding additional bird. Salvator atriceps, Centurus aureifrons, Xanthornus yucas, Pseudium brasilianum and Phylorhina nivos were other species noted and/or collected. We drove north to Coscomatepec looking for a good area of forest but without luck. The entire area from Cordoba to Coscomatepec is in coffee, sugar cane or bananas. Even the slopes to the west of the highway are cultivated with coffee so that it would be impossible to find a good stand of original vegetation anywhere in the area. Where there are steep sided gullies or canyons in this region, some of the original vegetation remains and we noted the ferns in one gully - but these situations are limited in number & where there is a canyon, usually only a narrow band of vegetation is left standing and even this may be mixed with coffee bushes or trees. Even so, there were wrens