37. ANOETHURA. 279 



spotted with whity brown ; ear-coverts and cheeks dusky brown, 

 sliglitly relieved by dull whity- brown centres to the feathers; 

 throat and chest dusky brown, with indistinct dark cross lines ; 

 centre of breast and abdomen whity brown, with blackish cross bars, 

 the sides of the body more rufous-brown, with blackish cross bars ; 

 under tail-coverts rufous, barred with black and tipped with white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries like the breast, with dusky 

 blackish cross lines, some of the longer coverts dull white barred 

 with dusky ; quills ashy brown below, lighter ashy along the edge of 

 the inner web ; " bill black, brown at the base of lower mandible ; 

 gape deep yellow ; feet dark brown, the claws blackish ; iris dark 

 brown" (/SV((////). Total length 4 inches, culmcn 0-5, wing 2-05, 

 tail 1-35, tarsus 0'7. 



Another bird (killed by Dr. Scully on the 3rd of December) has 

 the bars less distinct on the mantle, and has a few white spots on the 

 wing-coverts, the eyebrow is a little plainer, and the stripes on the 

 cheeks more distinctly indicated ; the underparts also are more dis- 

 tinctly barred with blackish and with white, so that the lower sur- 

 face of the bird appears lighter. 



Tlie Cashmere Wren occurs only on the hills of Cashmere ; it is 

 plentiful in winter, ascending to a height of 10,000 feet during the 

 breeding-season. 



a. Juv. sk. Sonamarg, Cashmere, 8500 feet. Major J. Biddulph 



Oct. l:i, l,s70. [C.]. 



b. c? imm. sk. Astor, 8000 feet, Oct. 4, 1880. Major J. Biddulph. 



c. <S ad. sk. Sai, Gilgit, 10,000 feet. Sept 11, Major J. Biddulph. 



1880. 



d. Ad. sk. Gilgit, .5000 feet, Jan. 2, 1879. Major J. Biddidph. 



e. Ad. sk. Gilp-it, 5000 feet, Feb. 20. 1879. Major J. Biddulph. 



f. 2ad.sk. Gilgit, -OOOO feet, March 17, 1879. Major J. Biddulph. 



g. S ad.sk. Gilgit, 10,000 feet, Jime 19,1880. Major J. Biddulph. 

 h. Ad. sk. Gilgit, 5000 feet, Dec. 1877. Major J. Biddulph. 

 i. Ad. sk. Gilgit, Dec. 3, 1878. Dr. J. ScuUy [P.]. 



10. Anorthura formosa. 



Troglodytes punctatus (ttec jBoh-), Bh/th, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 589 ; 



id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 158 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 222 : Jerd. B. Lid. 



i. p. 492; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 188, no. 2505 ; Hume, Str. F. 



1874, p. 525, 1877, p. 2.38, and 1879, p. 93. 

 Troglodytes formosus, Tf'ald. Ibis, 1874, p. 91. 



Adidt. General colour above smoky brown, inclining to didl 

 rufous-brown on the lower back and rump, and verging to more 

 decided rufous on the upper tail-coverts ; on all the upper parts 

 there are tiny rounded subterminal spots of whitish or pale fulvous, 

 margined with du.sky blackish, these spots being absent only on the 

 crown of the head ; wing-coverts dusky brown, with rather larger 

 spots of bufi'y whitish ; the greater coverts rxifous, mottled on the 

 out-er web and liuving a butfy- white ?pot at the tip ; quills blackish, 

 externally rufous, with five broad bands of black, the inner secon- 

 daries more narrowly barred and having a few terminal spots of 



