SPHENOCICHLA. 461 



Key to Species. 



A. Feathers of the throat and breast black 



with pale shafts S. humei, p. 461. 



B. Feathers of breast ashy-brown with 



black margins and white submargins. S. roberti, p. 461. 



(473) Sphenocichla humei. 

 HI'ME'S WEDGE-BILLED WREN". 



Heterorhynchus humei Mandelli, S. F., i, p. 415 (1873) (Native 



Sikkim). 

 Sphenocichla hiimii. Blanf . & Gates, i, p. 336. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Whole upper plumage rich golden-brown, the 

 feathers edged with black and all but those of the crown and nape 

 narrowly barred with blackish ; feathers of head, neck and inter- 

 scapulars with white shafts, most conspicuous on the forehead ; a 



Fig. 91. Head of S. humei. 



broad white supercilium from the back of the eye breaking up 

 into white spots on the sides of the neck ; wings blackish-brown, 

 the visible parts barred with dark golden-brown; chin, throat, 

 breast and flanks dark brown with white shafts aud the narrowest 

 of white edges ; belly ashy-grey ; posterior flanks and under tail- 

 coverts golden-brown. 



Colours of soft parts. Irides dark brown ; bill slate-colour, the 

 culmen darker ; legs dark brown. 



Measurements. "Wing 70 to 74 mm. ; tail 64 to 71 mm. ; tarsus 

 26 to 27 mm. ; culmen "22 to 2-1 mm. 



Distribution. Sikkim to the Abor Hills. 



Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 



(474) Sphenocichla roberti. 

 EGBERT'S WEDGE-BILLED WREN. 



Sphtnocichla roberti Godw.-Aust. &Wald., Ibis, 1875, p. 251 (Hemeo, 

 N. Cachar) ; Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 336. 



Vernacular names. Ting-linrui gadiba (Kacha Naga). 

 Description. Above dark reddish golden-brown, the feathers 

 of the head and mantle with darker margins aud obsolete ashy 



