SPEL.EORNIS. 453 



Fifty eggs average lS-4 x 14-9 mm. and the extremes of lengtli 

 and breadth are 19-9 X 15-U ; lS-(j x 15-9 ; 18-0 x 15-0 and 

 18-4 X 195 mm.. 



Habits. The Long-tailed Wren is found between about 3,500 

 and 6,500 feet, resident and breeding wherever found. It haunts 

 principally dense, evergreen forest with lots of weed and fern 

 undergrowth and especially those places where the ground is 

 rough and broken with big boulders. Among these it creeps 

 and climbs just as the Common Wren does, but it is even less 

 inclined to 11}' tlum tliat bird and seeks safety by dodging into 

 crevices and holes between the boulders. Even when tlisturbed 

 from the nest, which it will not leave until the hand almost 

 touches it, it merely flies a foot or two and then drops into the 

 undergrowth and scurries away on foot. It is a very silent 

 bird but I have heard it give a loud, clear whistle much like the 

 call of Pnoepyrja and after being disturbed it will continue to 

 utter its soft chirring note for some minutes. It is entirelv 

 insectivorous. 



(465) Spelseornis long'icaudatus chocolatinus. 



Gtodwin-Austen's Wren. 



Pnoepyf/a chocolatina Clodw.-Aust., Ibis, 1875, p. 252 (Kedimai, 

 Manipur). 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Upper plumage and wings fulvous-brown, more 

 rufous on lower back, rump and tail ; feathers of head and back 

 obsoletely fringed with darker brown; lores and line through eye 

 grey ; chin albescent ; centre of belly and breast white, splashed 

 with rufous ; throat, upper breast, sides of lower breast and flanks 

 rufous, the feathers witli black terminal edges and subtipped with 

 white ; under tail-coverts darker rufous. 



Colours of soft parts. " Bill dark brown. Legs pale flesh- 

 colour" {G.-A.). 



Measurements. Wing 47 and 50 mm. ; tail 36 and 40 mm. ; 

 tarsus 20 mm. ; culmen 10 and 11 mm. 



Distribution. The only two specimens known were obtained by 

 Godwin-Austen at Kedimai, Manipur, about 4,000 feet altitude. 



Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 



' (466) Spelseornis longicaudatus sinlumensis. 



The Sinlum Wren. 



Urocichla sinlumensis Harington, A. M. N. H., ser. 8, ii, p. 246 

 (1908) (Sinlum, Bhamo Hills). 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Above like S. I. longicaudatus but more fulvous, 

 less orange and with the dark bars better defined, below ashy- 



