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neck, which is also mottled with the same ashj'-spotted feathers ; 

 ear-coverts and cheeks blackish, narrowly streaked with white 

 shaft-lines, as also the fore part of the cheeks ; under surface of 

 bodj- blackish brown, the feathers of the throat and breast obsoletely 

 margined with duU ashy, producing a scaly appearance ; chin 

 with distinct white shaft-lines ; centre of breast ashy, the lateral 

 feathers blackish, tipped with ashy ; flank-feathers and vent 

 blackish, tipped with fulvous brown ; under tail-coverts entirely 

 fulvous brown ; under wing-coverts light fulvous brown, edged with 

 blackish, the outer ones more ashy ; quills brown below, ashy fulvous 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 1, 

 wing 2-7, tail 2-6, tarsus 1-05. (J/«s. Col. Godwin-Austen.) 



Adult female (Konchungbum, Muniper Hills ; H. Robert : type of 

 Sphenocichla roherii). Differs from the male in being of a reddish 

 brown above, the feathers edged with black and subterminally 

 spotted with ashy, producing a scaly appearance ; the ashy spots 

 absent on the head, and more rufescent on the lower back and 

 rump ; the upper tail-coverts numerously barred with dusky ; 

 wing-coverts like the back and spotted with ashy in the same 

 manner, the greater coverts with numerous dusky cross bars ; 

 quills dark brown, the secondaries rufous-brown externally, the 

 innermost lighter brown and barred across with dusky ; primaries 

 externally barred with fulvous brown and more narrowly with 

 blackish ; tail-feathers dull brown, with numerous bars of dusky 

 blackish, about 22 bars being perceptible on the central feathers ; 

 forehead a little clearer than the crown, the lores dusky ; upper 

 edge of eyelid M'hite ; ear-coverts blackish, with nearly obsolete 

 whitish shaft-lines : cheeks ashy whitish, the feathers with dark- 

 brown centres and blackish margins, producing a scaly appearance ; 

 throat and chest scaly, the feathers being olive-brown in the 

 centre, blackish on the margin, with a subterminal line of white ; 

 the feathers in the centre of the breast ashy, with less pronounced 

 blackish edges : sides of body reddish brown, slightly Avashed with 

 olive, and mottled by the presence of a few feathers which ai'e 

 edged with blackish and subterminally marked with dull white ; 

 under tail-coverts rufous-brown, subterminally marked with a line 

 of dull white; under wing-coverts brown, those near the edge 

 of the wing ashy : quills dusky brown below, pale ashy rufous 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 

 1-15, wing 2-95, tail 2-7, tarsus 1-1. (Mus. H. H. God win- A listen.) 



Hume's "Wedge-billed Wren was originally discovered in Native 

 Sikhim by Mr. Mandelli, and has since been found in the Xorth 

 Cachar and Munipur hills by Colonel Godwin-Austen. 



