264 TIMELIIDJE. 



35. SPELiEORNIS. „ 



Type. 

 Spelfeorois, David ^ Oustalef, Ois. Chine, p. 229 



(1877) S. troglodytoides. 



Range. Confined to the hills of Western China. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head and neck different from the back, slaty- 

 brown, baiTed -R-ilb white and blackish; 

 underneatli orange-buff, with diamond-shaped 

 spots of white troglodytoides, p. 264. 



6. Head and neck resembUng the back, spotted 

 with white and black ; tliroat white, washed 

 on the sides with orange ; remainder of under 

 surface light orange, barred with white and 

 more narrowly with dusky hahueti, p. 265. 



1. Spelaeornis troglodytoides. 



Pnoepyga troglodytoides, Verr. Nouv. Arch. vi. Bull. p. .34, vii. p. 30, 



ix. pi. 4. 

 Spelaeornis troglodytoides, David Sf Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 228. 



Adidt female (tj'pe of species). General colour above rufescent 

 brown, mottled with transverse black spots at the tips, relieved by 

 a subterminal transverse bar of white, these white bars a little more 

 distinct on the rump, the feathers of which are very loose and 

 fluffy ; scapulars transversely barred with dusky ; wing-coverts dull 

 ashy, transversely mottled with blackish cross bars, the bastard 

 ■wing-feathers notched or barred with dull white ; quills dark brown, 

 barred with rufous-brown on the outer webs, the secondaries spotted 

 along the shafts with rufous-buff, the inner webs uniform, the pri- 

 maries externally barred with paler fulvous ; upper tail-coverts like 

 the back, the subtcnninal white bars less distinct ; tail-feathers 

 rufous-brown, regularly barred across with bars of dusky blackish, the 

 dusky bars not strictly contenninous and about nineteen or twenty 

 in number ; some of the rufescent feathers mottled with whitish 

 notches on the edge of the outer web ; these notches more distinct 

 on the outer feathers, which are ashy grey barred with black, with 

 a few whitish bars near the tips ; head and hind neck slaty brown, 

 transversely barred with blackish and dull white ; lores and an ill- 

 deiined eyebrow orange-buff', spotted with black, the latter with a 

 few whitish streaks ; round the eye a ring of orange-buff" feathers ; 

 in front of the eye a dusky spot edged with whitish : cheeks and 

 ear-coverts deep orange-rufous ; sides of neck orange-rufous, barred 

 with black and white behind the ear-coverts ; entire under surface 

 of body orange-rufous, the whole throat uniform, the breast and 

 abdomen prettily varied with triangular spots of white, relieved by 

 a small bar of black at the tip ; sides of body rather darker and 

 more orange-brown ; under tail-coverts like the abdomen, but less 

 distinctly spotted ; thigh-feathers dark ashy brown, obscurely barred 



