278 TIMELIIDJO. 



tinetly barred across with blackish ; quills scpia-browii, notched with 

 reddish brown, which imparts a chequered appearance to the wing ; 

 primaries minutely speckled with rufous, or with white on the outer 

 web ; upper tail-coverts rufous, transversely barred with blackish ; 

 tail-feathers also rufous, with transverse bars of blackish, not always 

 very regular or conterminous ; lores dull white ; eyelid and superci- 

 liary streak pale fulvous brown ; sides of face and ear-coverts dull 

 brown, spotted with pale fulvous brown, the sides of the neck also 

 spotted in the same manner ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of 

 body lighter rufous-brown, with transverse bars of dusky blackish, 

 which increase in width on the abdomen and flanks, which are like- 

 wise barred witli dull white instead of rufescent brown-; under tail- 

 coverts clear rufous, barred with blackish and having a spot of white 

 at the tip ; under wing-coverts wbity brown, barred with blackish ; 

 quills light brown below, ashy along the edge of the inner web ; 

 " bill brown ; legs horny brown ; iris hazel-brown " (Jerdon). 

 Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 1-8, tail 1-2. tarsus OwS. 

 The Xepalese "Wren extends throughout the Himalayas from 

 Cashmere (where it probably only occurs in the lower hills) to 

 Nepal and Sikhim, being foiind also in the hills of Jloupin and 

 Southern Chensi. Pere David considers the Tsinling examples 

 intermediate between A. nipalensis and A. funugata. 



a. Ad. sk. Cashmere. _ R. B. Sliarpe, Esq. [P.]. 



b, c, d. Imm. sk. Between jMussoori Oapt. Stackhouse PinwiU 



and Simla. [P-]- 



e,f,g. Ad.; 7i. Juv.sk. Neiial. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of Troglodytes subhemalachamis, Hodgs.) 

 I, m,n. Ad., o. Juv.sk. Nepal(i?. JI. Hodsgon). India Museum. 

 p, q. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould Collection. 



r,s. S 2 ad. sk. Sikhim", Jan. 1874 (i. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



MandeUi). 



9. Anorthura neglecta. 



Troglodytes neglectus, Broohs, J. A. S. Bcng. 1872, p. .328 ; id. Str F. 

 1876, p. 493, 1879, p. 93; Biddii/ph, Ibis, 1881, p. 52; Scull;/, t. c. 

 p. 437. 



Adult male. General colour above fulvous brown, the head and 

 neck dusky brown, the entire back from the mantle downwards 

 distinctly barred with dusky blackish, remains of some of these 

 bars even occurring on the hind neck ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 and barred in the same manner, the bastard wing with paler and 

 more whity-brown bars, the greater coverts slightly more rufescent ; 

 quills light brown, externally rufous-brown barred with blackish, 

 the primaries faintly chequered with whitj'-brown spots ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail dull rufous-brown, barred across with blackish, 

 about twelve bars being distinguishable on the centre tail-feathers, 

 though on none of them are they strictly conterminous ; face very 

 dusky, with a slightly indicated eyebrow, and the lores faintly 



