30-i 



2. Pnoepyga pusilla. 



Pnoepyga pusilla, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 25; id. Icon. hied, in Brit. 



J/«s. pi. xlvii. %. 4 (870), App. pi. xxvi. (978); Blijth, Cat. B. 



3lm. As. >Soc. p. 179 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 258 ; Horsf. ,§• Moore, 



Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 180 ; Godwin-Aust. J. 'A. S. Beng. 



xxxix. p. 101 (1870) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 489 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 130 ; 



Hume tV Davis. Str. F. 1878, p. 234 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 93. 

 Tesia pusilla, Bb/th, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 588 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 188, no. 2559. 

 Pnoepyga lepida, Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 227 *. 



Adult. General colour above brown, the wing-coverts like the 

 back ; the greater series and the quills reddish brown externallj', 

 with a spot of ochraceous buff at the tips of the median and greater 

 coverts and the feathers of the bastard wing as well as the scapu- 

 laries ; tail rufous-brown ; lores dull whitish; ear-coverts dusky brown, 

 with narrow whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat dull white, 

 slightly mottled with dusky edgings to the feathers ; remainder of 

 the under surface of body dull white, with more or less concealed 

 bases of dusk}' brown ; flanks dull brown, broadly edged with white 

 or ochraceous buff ; under wing-coverts ochraceous buff ; quills 

 ashy brown below ; " upper mandible blackish, lower one pale 

 brown ; legs and feet pale brown ; iris deep brown " ( W. Davison). 

 Total length 2-7 inches, culmen Q-oo, wing 1-9, tail Go, tarsus 

 0-G5. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being more rufous above, espe- 

 cially on the wings ; ear-coverts dull fulvous brown, with huffy 

 whitish shaft-lines, the upper edge of the ear-coverts darker brown ; 

 under surface of body ochraceous buff, mottled with dusky -browni 

 centres to the feathers. 



The Brown Hill- Wren is found in the Eastern Himalayas, 

 extending into Tenasserim, and probably ranging into the hills of 

 Sumatra. 



a,h. Ad.; c, d. Jun.sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



( T^'pes of species.) 

 e. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



/. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould Collection. 



3. Pnoepyga rufa. 



Microm'a squamata, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 258 (??ee Gould). 



Adult taale. Similar to P. pusilla ; but everj-where more rufous, 

 especially on the lores, forehead, ear-coverts, and spots on the wings, 

 the latter being much more rufous in appearance than in the Hima- 



* In uniting P. lepida of Salvadori, from Sumatra, with P. pusilla, I do so 

 with all reserve, never having seen a Sumatran specimen. As, however, there can 

 be no doubt that PferiUhius cameranoi of Sumatra is identical with P. ffralatus 

 of Tenasserim {of. Wardlaw Kamsay, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 1(5), there is no difficulty 

 in believing that the Himalayan Pnoepyga pusilla, which also occurs in Tenas- 

 serim, may extend to Sumatra. 



