62 Mr. E. C. Stewart Baker on a 



fine Lark with the httle A. gidgula. This southern Lark must 

 be kept distinct for the present at least. As well as I can 

 remember^ the type was procured in the Nilghiri Hills. 



The bill and feet of A. dulcivox differ from those of 

 A. arvensis. The former has also the longest wing. Swin- 

 hoe's A. pekinensis appeared to me to be much more like 

 true A. arvensis. 



V. — Description of a new Species of Wren from North-east 

 India, together with an Account of its Nest and Eggs. By 

 E. C. Stewart Baker^ District Superintendent of Police, 

 North Cachar. 



(Plate II.) 



I HAVE recently obtained in Northern Cachar an example of a 

 "Wren which I believe to be new to science, and propose to 

 characterize as 



Elachura haplonota, sp. n. (Plate II.) 

 Similis E.pimctat(e,sed supra concolor, minime albo-punctata, 

 dorsi punctis albis nullis, et remigibus caudaquc unico- 

 loribus nee nigro transfasciatis distinguenda. 



Description. — Whole upper plumage and wing-coverts dark 

 umber-brown, rather lighter on the rump and tail-coverts, 

 the feathers obsoletely edged with rather pale sienna-brown ; 

 wings dark cinnamon-brown on the exposed parts, and dark- 

 brown where unexposed (in the closed wing) ; tail brown, 

 tinged with cinnamon-red, but not so strongly as are the wing- 

 quills; lores fulvous-brown, dusky next the axis; chin and 

 throat white, tinged with fulvous, and the feathers, except 

 in the centre, tipped with dusky ; breast and sides of neck 

 fulvous-brown, the feathers tipped with brown and subtipped 

 with white, the white being most prominent in the centre of 

 the breast ; centre of abdomen and belly white ; flanks and 

 under tail-coverts fulvous-brown, some of the feathers of 

 the former tipped with white ; thighs greyish brown, the 

 feathers with the shafts slightly paler ; under wing-covcrts 

 grey; axillaries dark fulvous-brown. 



