44. PNOEPTGA. 305 



layan bird ; a rufous eyelid also conspicuous ; underneath white, 

 ■with a tinge of fulvous on the breast, the feathers edged vrith dusky 

 brown ; sides of breast mottled with dark brown centres ; sides of 

 body rufcscent brown, with a scaly appearance caused by the rufescent 

 ochre markings on the feathers, which are further edged with dusky. 

 Total length 3 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2, tail 0*5, tarsus OSo. 

 (Mus. Liujd.) 



Adult female. Exactly like the male. Total length 3-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2-05, tarsus OS. {Mus. Lugd.) 



This seems to bo a representative form of P. pusilla of the Hima- 

 laj-as ; and 1 have not separated it without a careful comparison of 

 the two tyjncal specimens at Leyden with a large series from the 

 Tweeddale collection which I took over with me for the purposes 

 of comparison. It may ultimately turn out that this Javan bird, 

 which is from Mount Gede, may prove to be identical with Pnoepuga 

 lepida of Salvadori from the .Sumatran hills (vide anted). 



The Rufous Hill- Wren is only known as yet from the mountains 

 of Java. 



4. Pnoepyga caudata, 



Tesia caudata, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 588 ; Hoclgs. Icon, t'ned. 



Brit. Mus., Pa!>seres, Apj). pi. xxvii. (no. 9-;2) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 188, no. 2500. 

 Pnoepvga caudata, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 179 ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p."258 ; Hursf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mm. i. p. 181 ; Godwin- 



Aiist. J. A. S. Bene/, xxxix. p. 101 (1870) ; Jerd. B.Ind. i. p. 490; 



id. Ibis, 1872, p. iSO ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 93. 



Adxdt. General colour above brown, the head somewhat scaled with 

 narrow blackish edges to the feathers; wings a little more brown than 

 the back ; tail reddish brown ; lores, an indistinct eyebrow, fore part 

 of cheeks, and ear-coverts dark ashy, the upper edge of the ear-coverts 

 browner; throat ferntginous; remainder of under surface mottled with 

 ochraccous, the feathers centred with dark brown, the lower breast and 

 flanks barred with white near tlie tip, and also longitudinally centred 

 with white ; flanks brown, with subterminal bars of ochraceous buft'; 

 under wing-coverts brown, the lower series white forming a bar; 

 quiUs uniform brown below ; " bill blackish ; legs brown ; irides 

 brown" (Jerdon). Total length 3-3 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 1-9, 

 tail 1-2, tarsus 0-75. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but more rufous-brown ; ear-coverts 

 ashy brown : lores, base of chin, and checks white ; throat chestnut ; 

 fore neck, chest, and sides of body rufous-brown ; breast and abdomen 

 dusky brown, with whitish streaks in the centre of the feathers. 



The Tailed Hill-'Wreu inhabits the Eastern Himalayas. It is by 

 no means a typical Pnoepyga, but has a long tail like Urodchla 

 longicaudata, with which, however, it does not otherwise agree 

 generic all J'. 



a. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould Collection. 



b. Ad.sk. Nepal. Gould Collection. 



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