ANORTHURA. 49 



472- UrOCichla longicaudata (Moore), Sharpe, Cat, 2*. r. Mus. 

 vi. p 263. Pnoepyga longicaudata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 74; Jerd., B. 

 Ind. i. p. 490; Godw.-Aust., y. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 101 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, p. 93. Pnoepyga chocolatina, Godw.-Aust, and Wald., Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 252 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1876, p. 218 ; id., Str. F. 1879, p. 93. The LONG' 

 TAILED WREN. 



Above deep olive brown, the feathers slightly margined with blackish ; 

 lower back, rump and upper tail coverts uniform olive brown ; lesser and 

 median wing coverts like the back ; the greater wing coverts and quills some- 

 what rufescent; tail dull reddish brown ; lores dusky ; cheeks and ear coverts 

 uniform dark olive brown ; under surface of body light ochraceous buff, the 

 flanks brown ; breast and sides of the abdomen tipped with dusky and the 

 feathers with whitish shaft streaks ; chin and throat whiter than the breast ; 

 vent and under tail coverts dark ferruginous. Bill dark horny; legs paler; 

 irides brownish. 



Length. 4-5 inches; wing 1-95 to 2; tail 1*95 to 2*2; tarsus O'8S ; 

 culmen 0*5. 



Hab, Khasia and Munipur Hills. 



Gen, Anorthura. Rennie. 



Bill moderately long, slender, compressed, and without notch ; wings short 

 and rounded ; tail narrow, rounded and short, about one-third the entire 

 length of the bird ; nostrils, a longitudinal slit covered by membrane. 



473 Anorthura nipalensis (Biyth\ Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 



vi. p. 277. Troglodytes nipalensis, Blyth, J . A. S. B. xiv. p. 589 ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p, 222 ; Gould., B. Asia, pt. iv. ; Jtrd., B. Ind. i. p. 491, No. 333 ; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 218; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 93. Trog- 

 lodytes subhemalachanus, Hodgs. Icon. ined. Brit. Mus. Passeres i., pi. 49. 

 The NKPALESE WREN. 



Above dark chocolate brown or umber brown ; the mantle, wing coverts and 

 back barred with blackish, and the rump with a few white subterminal spots, 

 and more reddish in colour ; upper tail coverts rufous, barred transversely 

 with blackish ; quills brown, notched with reddish brown ; primaries speckled 

 with rufous or white on the outer web ; tail rufous, also barred transversely 

 with blackish ; lores dull white ; supercilium pale fulvous brown, with which 

 colour the sides of the face and ear coverts are spotted ; cheeks, throat and 

 under surface of the body light rufous brown, barred transversely with dusky 

 blackish, the abdomen less rufescent ; under tail coverts rufous, barred with 

 dusky blackish and tipped with white ; under wing coverts whitish and barred 

 with blackish. Bill brown ; legs horny ; iris hazel brown. 



Length. 3-5 to 3-8 inches; wing l'8 ; tail 1-2 ; tarsus 075 ; culmen 0-55. 



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