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Hab. Himalayas to Nepaul and Sikkim, also Cashmere. Recorded from 

 Mussoorie and Simla. Jerdon says Adams observed it commonly among stony 

 places in glens and around the margins of the avalanches on the Cashmere 

 ranges. The Nepaulese wren breeds in May and June throughout the Hima- 

 layas and far into Thibet at elevations from 6,OOO to iO,OOO feet. Mr. Brooks 

 took two nests in Cashmere, one with three and the other two with four eggs. 

 The eggs are white, minutely freckled with pale red specks, which are 

 chiefly confined to the larger end. Anorthura neghcta also occurs on the 

 hills of Cashmere. 



474. Anorthura formosa (Wald\ Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus.vi. 

 p. 279. Troglodytes formosus, Wald., Ibis, 1874, p. 91. Troglodytes puncta- 

 tus (nee Boie), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 589; Bp. Consp. I. p. 222; Jerd., 

 B.Ind. I. p. 492; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 525; 1877, p. 238; and 1879, 

 p. 93. The SPOTTED WREN. 



Above fuscous or smoky brown, each feather tipped with a whitish or 

 fulvous spot ; crown of the head unspotted, uniform smoky brown ; wing 

 coverts dusky brown, the spots being larger and more fulvous ; greater coverts 

 rufous, also tipped with fulvous, their outer webs mottled with fulvous ; quills 

 blackish, crossed with five broad bands of black, their outer webs margined 

 with rufous ; tail rufous, also barred with black ; lores and sides of the face 

 like the crown, but mottled with fulvous spots; throat light sandy buff, 

 deepening in colour on the breast and abdomen ; under parts mottled with 

 triangular pale spots ; under wing coverts and axillaries reddish brown, 

 slightly mottled with dusky bars. Bill horny brown ; legs pale brown. 



Length. 4-6 inches ; wing 175 ; tail 1-25 ; tarsus 07. 

 Hab. Darjeeling, where it is said to be rare. 



Gen. SpheilOCichla. Godw.-Aust. 



Tail quite long, longer than the length of the wing ; bill conical and pointed ; 

 the culmen and gonys straight ; nostrils a narrow slit, covered by a horny 

 membrane which overhangs the anterior edge of it. 



475. SphenOCichla humii (Mandelli), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br.Mus.Mi. 

 p. 283. Heterorhynchus humii, Mandclli, Str. F. 1873^.415. Sphenocichla 

 roberti, Godw.-Aust. and Wald., Ibis, 1875, P- 2 5J Hume, Str. F. 1876, 

 p. 217; id., Str. F. 1879, p. 95. Stachyrirhynchus roberti, Hume, Str. F. 

 1876, p. 217, note; id., Str. F. 1879, P-95- HUME'S WEDGE-BILLED WREN. 



Adult. (Native Sikkim, April, 1875 ; Mandelli.) General colour above 

 scaly, the feathers being brown in the centre, edged with black ; the feathers 

 of the head and mantle with buffy-white shaft lines, less distinct on the 

 lower back and rump ; the dorsal feathers indistinctly waved with narrow 

 blackish cross bars ; upper tail coverts reddish brown, narrowly barred with 



