272 TTMELIIPJE. 



Brussels Museum [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.], 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.], 

 H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 

 H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



Gould Collection. 



2. Anorthura borealis. 



Sylvia troglodytes, Faber, Leben. d. hoch. Viig. p. .321 b (nee Lafh.).\ 

 Troglodytes europseus, P. A. Holm. Nat. Tids. 1847, p. 428 {nee 



Leach ) . 

 Troglodytes punctatus, P. A. Holm. t. c. p. 523 (nee Brehm). 

 Troglodytes borealis, J". C. H. FiscJm; J.f. O. 1861, p. 14, pi. i. ; 



Baed. Eier euro}!. Vog. pi. 76. fig. 6 ; Newton, in Baring- Gould's 



Iceland, App. A, p. 408 ; Feildea, Zool. 1872, p. 3222 ; liresser, B. 



Eur. pt. xxiii. 

 Troglodytes parvulus, I^'eyer, Pels. u. Island, p. 393 (jiec Kocli). 



Adult. General colour dark brown, with a few indications of 

 dusky bars on the mantle, these becoming much more distinct on 

 the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, which are all a little 

 more nifescent ; wing-coverts clear brown, barred with blackish, 

 more distinctly on the greater series, the median coverts with tiny 

 diamond-shaped spots at the tip; quills dusky brown, externally 

 rufesceut barred with blackish, the primaries chequered with 

 notches of fulvous or whity brown ; tail-feathers rufous-brown, 

 narrowly barred with blackish, about twelve being perceptible on 

 the middle feathers ; lores and a narrow superciliary streak whity 

 brown ; ear-coverts dark brown on the upper part, the lower part 

 whity brown slightly mottled with brown edges to the feathers and 

 whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks also whity brown and mottled like the 

 ear-coverts ; throat and chest pale brown, becoming whity brown in 

 the centre of the breast and abdomen ; the sides of the breast with 

 faint blackish cross lines, which become stronger and more marked 

 on the flanks and abdomen ; under tail-coverts rufous, barred with 

 black and tipped with white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts very 

 pale brown, with dusky cross bars ; quills dark brown, ashy fulvous 

 along the margin of the inner web. Total length 4-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 1-75, tail 1-4, tarsus 0*8. 



Young. Rather lighter in colour than the adult, but more dusky, 

 and not so strongly barred both above and below ; ear-coverts more 

 uniform and not so strongly mottled. {3Ius. Howard Saunders.) 



The Taeroe-Island Wren is a common bird in the Faeroe Islands. 

 It is a large dark race of A. troglodi/tes, readily recognizable on 

 comparison of specimens. It also occurs in Iceland. 



a. Ad. sk. Thorshavn, Faeroe Isles, Nov. 8, Edward Hargitt, Esq. 

 1880 {H. C. Midler). [P.]. 



