44. PXOEPTGA. 301 



inner web ; " iris dark brown " {Goering). Total length 43 inches, 

 culmen 06, wing 2*4, tail 0-8, tarsus 0-9. {Mas. P. L. Sclater.) 



Goering's Scaly-breasted Wren is onh' known from the type 

 specimen in Dr. Sclater's collection ; it was discovered by Mr. Goering 

 in Venezuela, in the Andes of 8aii Cristoval in the province of 

 Tachira, on the frontiers of Colombia. 



44. PNOEPYGA. 



Type. 

 Tesia (pt.), JIuclf/.s. J. A. S. Bemj. vi. p. 101 (1837). 

 Microura, Gould, leones Avium, pi. v. (c. 1837, nee 



Ehrenh.) P. albiventris 



Anura, Hoch/s. J. A. S. Beng. p. 28 (1841, nom. 



emend, pro Tesia, nee J. E. Gray). 

 Pnoepyga, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 24 P. albiveutris 



Leg of Pnoe/pyga albiventris. 



Range. Himalayan Mountains, ranging throughout the hills of 

 Burma and Tenasseiim. Xot found in Malacca, but reappearing in 

 Sumatra and Java. 



The right title for this genus is not easy to find, inasmuch as 

 Hodgson and subsequent authors have confounded under one heading 

 birds which are true Wrens and others which are truly Timeiiine, 

 the latter being Tesia casta neocoronata and T. cyaniventris. The 

 literary history of these genera seems to be as follows. Swainson 

 in 1831 (Faun. Bor.-Amer. p. 488) described a genus, Aipunemia, 

 with fuU characters, but without indicating any type. He mentions 

 three species as existing in the British and Paris Museums, but un- 

 described at that date. When he speaks of the bill as resembling 

 that of Cindus, one fancies he has P. squamata before him ; but 

 afterwards he mentions the tail as being short and rounded, and 

 that would seem to be taken from Tesia ct/anivcntris or its ally. On 

 that account I do not think that Aipunemia of Swainson can enter 

 into ornithological nomenclatiire, especially as no type is mentioned ; 

 the name, moreover, appears to have been dropped by Swainson him- 

 seK, as it does not re-occur in his ' Classification of Birds ' (1836-37). 



In 1837 Hodgson described his genus Tesia, but also mixed up 

 Aipunemia with it. At first he would appear to have questioned 

 whether the latter was identical with his genus Tesia ; but as he 

 mentions in a footnote the difference in the nostrils between the 

 two genera, he apparently considered them distinct, though his 

 meaning is by no means clear. As left by Hodgson in 1837, the 

 genus Tesia was a composite one. 



Gould, in the ' Icones Avium,' gives a good figure of Microura 



