SPELMORNIS, 453 
Fifty eggs average 18-4 x 14-9 mm. and the extremes of length 
and breadth are 19°9x 15:0; 186159; 18:0x15:0 and 
18°4 x 19°5 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 ae the Common Wren does, But it is even less 
inclined to fly than that bird and seeks safety by dodging into 
crevices and holes between the boulders. Even when disturbed 
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 
eall of Proepyga and after being disturbed it will continue to 
utter its soft chirring note for some minutes. It is entirely 
insectivorous. , 
(465) Speleornis longicaudatus chocolatinus. 
GopWIN-AUSTEN’s WREN. 
Pnoepyga chocolatina Godw.-Aust., [bis, 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 with 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) Speleornis longicaudatus sinlumensis. 
THE SINLUM WREN. 
Urocichla sinlumensis Harington, A. M. N. H., ser. 8, li, p. 246 
(1908) (Sinlum, Bhamo Hills). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Above like S./. longicaudatus but more fulvous, 
less orange and with the dark bars better defined, below ashy- 
