37. ANORTHURA. 273 



3. Anorthura pallida *. 



Troglodytes nepalensis, Severfz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. QQ 

 iroglodvtes europiBus, Severtz. t. c. p. 138 

 Troglodytes parvuliis, Dresser, Ibis, 1875, 'p. 175. 



I'lre/'l^'lsS"''^'' ^^""''' ^"'- ^- ^^'^' P- 219> ^ote; Scully, t. c. 



Adult male. Above pale brown, the head and neck uniform the 



lower scapulars, back, and rump indistinctly barred across Vkh 



duskj-^brown; wingsa httle more rufesccnt, and rather more brold ly 



apart, the bastard wing inclining to whitish and crossed with 

 broad zigzag bars of dusky brown: quills brown, externallv 

 rufescent, barred with dusky brown, the interspaces on the primaries 



ta fL^r '"^f '? "^? P'"^"""^ ^ ^^^1"^^-^d appearance; uppe 

 tail-coverts and tail rather more rufous than the rest of th; upper 

 surface, and barred across with blackish, the bars on the ktter 

 being eleven in number; lores and a narrow line over the eve 



SSZhTb'^'^''^ ''t °' *'^ ^^^^ also creamy white, sLdiugo'ff 

 into light brown on the ear-coverts, which resemble on their hinder 

 part the sides of the neck; under surface of bodv pale isabemne 

 o''.^'"'!' 1^^'^ ' 5^ "^^''^ '^''' °f 1^™^"' beconiing more disi net 

 afewwbv'^'r' flanks browner, with dull brown cross bars and 

 tith r^; I P' It '^' ^'''^'''' '^' ""^^^^ tail-coverts barred 

 w b tf T'' *^' ^-^torspaces being whitish, slightlv tinged 



hornv iT' l^Tl T""^'^'^' ^™""'^' *^^ 1°^^^ o"e vellowlsh 

 rTfJi fi! ,^°'^/^^* brownish fleshy; claws brown "'(&■„?/») 

 Total le.igth 4 mches, cnlmen 0-5, wing l-9o, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-7.^^' 

 Ihe yale Wren represents A. troglodytes in Central Asia. 



«, 6. cT S ad. sk. Turkestan, Oct. 18, 1864 Gould Collection. 



{iiesert^off"), 



4. Anorthura alascensis. 

 Troglodytes alascensis, Baud, Trans. Chicayo Acad. i. p. 815, pi. .30. 



ng. i : J)(dl cy Bonn. t. e. p. 280 ^ 



Anm-thura ajascens^, Cou^s I^eyN.-Amcr B. p. 87; id Birds Color. 



' atf. p. i/8; Bidffir. Bull. l.S. Aat. Mm. no. 2], p. 15 ri88n 



Adult male. General colour above rufescent browu, inclining to 

 clearer rufous on the lower back and rump, the rump having half! 

 concea ed spots of silky white: the scapulars also wifh some ha f- 

 concealed streaks of white: lesser and median wing-covert duky 

 brown edged with rufous-brown, with a white spot at^the tip of somi 

 of the inner ones, bctore which is a bar of blackish : greater wiif^! 

 ^o^^rtsrntonsA^ ^ across with lines of black, and havin 'g 



that ?e hrd^SlVthu'hi^H'r"";"] ]"^ '^^' ^^^"' *° ^"8'""'^' •"f°™'d Z 



Tot. vr. 



