52 TIMELlIDdE. 



Total length. 6-5 inches; culmen 1-15; wing 2-95; tail 27; tarsus PI 

 {Mus. H. H. Godwin- Austen?) (Sharpe.) 



Hume's Wedge-billed Wren was originally discovered in Native Sikkim by 

 Mr. Mandelli, and has since been found in the North Cachar and Munipur 

 hills by Colonel Godwin-Austen. (Sharpe.) 



Gen. Pnoepyga- Hodgson. 



General characters the same as in Sphenocichla tail rudimentary or in- 

 visible, being completely hidden by the upper tail coverts and feathers o| 

 the rump ; tarsi plain in front, scutellate at the base of toes j hind claw long 

 and curved. 



476. Pnoepyga albiventris (Hodgs.}, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 



vi. p. 302 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 152. Tesia albiventer, Hodgs. t 

 J. A. S. B. vi. p. 1 02. Microura squamata, Gould., Icones. Avium. pi. v. 

 Pnoepyga albiventer, Hodgs., Icon. ined. in Mus. Br. Pass. pi. xlvii. ; id.* 

 P. Z. S. 1845, p. 25. Pnoepyga squamata, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 

 p. 179; Jerd. B. 2nd. i. p. 488, No. 329 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 99; 

 Godw.-Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxix. pi. ii. p. 101 ; Hume and Dav., Str.F. 

 vi. p. 234; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 93. The SCALY-BREASTED HILL WREN. 



Upper plumage and wing coverts dark earthy or chocolate brown, darker 

 at the tip of each feather, and with a subterminal fulvous spot ; ear coverts 

 dark brown, the feathers with fulvous shaft stripes ; cheeks, chin and throat 

 dull white, the edges of the feathers mottled with dusky ; lower plumage 

 whitish or fulvous, the feathers with dark centres ; wings brown, the outer 

 webs of the quills chocolate or earthy brown ; under wing coverts ochraceous 

 buff, edged with brown. Bill dusky brown ; legs fleshy brown ; irides brown, 



Length. 3*5 to 4^5 inches ; tail 0*6 ; wing 2-35 ; tarsus 0*1. 



Hal. Throughout the Himalayas ranging into the Karen Hills in Burmaru 

 Jerdon says this is the largest of the hill-wrens, and that it is not uncommon 

 about Darjeeling, and up to at least 8,000 feet elevation. He has seen it hunting 

 under and on a fallen moss-clad tree, and now and then on a forest path by 

 the trunk of some large tree to which it would cling for a few moments. In 

 Lurmah it has been procured by Capt. Wardlaw-Ramsay in Karennee. 

 Mussoorie and Simla are given as localities in the N.-W. Provinces of India, 

 They feed chiefly on insects, and sometimes eat seeds, and build on the 

 ground under the trunk of a tree, making an oval nest with an entrance on one 

 side. 



477. Pnoepyga pusilla, Hodgs P. Z. S. 1845, P. 25; Jerd. B. 



Jnd. i. p. 489, No. 330 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 234 ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. viii. p. 93 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 304 ; Oates, B. Br. 

 . \. p. iS3- The BROWN HILL- WREN. 



