C. zonatus 26 12 mi. SSW Bocadel Rio, 100ft., Veracruz, Mexico May 18 Took 5 & took one. This wren is about equally common with C. rufinucha. I saw one bird fly from a dense thicket of trees (not thorny) into a large (30 feet or less) tree at edge of clearing and then up into a palm (coconut-like) 50 feet above the ground carrying nesting material. The thicket was thicker, richer, greener & less thorny than most in the area & more so than usual habitat situation for C. rufinucha. After seeing the one bird make 4-5 trips, always stopping in the large tree before flying into the palm I saw another bird carry material. Both birds were silent the whole time. Actually 4 birds were present at the nest. I discovered this when I shot one - a ? with a full brood patch. No epiphytes on any of the vegetation in the area. The flight from thicket to nest palm was direct with a glide just before landing. While sitting at the edge of a cleared field where a few palms were left standing I heard a pair of C. zonatus dueling along the edge of a dense thicket of trees (non-thorny bushes for most part). I had just collected a pair of C. rufinucha from a small palm at edge of same field. The two wrens flew 50-75 yds. into a group of palms near the center of the field where I collected one bird. The situation was very open with only a single tree beneath the 5-6 palms grouped together in the field. When wounded, another bird hid in a palm & could not be flushed out by throwing sticks or kicking the palm,