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and longer than the wing ; throat white ; breast pale ochraceous ; flanks and 

 under tail coverts ferruginous. 



Length.^'*) inches ; wing 2-6 to 2-85 ; tail 2-9 to 3'i ; tarsus 0*65 to 0-85 ; 

 culmen 0-53 to O'6o. 



Halt. Himalayas, from Nepaul to Bhootan and Assam. Recorded from 

 Nepaul, Darjeeling, Sikkim and Bhootan. 



Gen. SalpomiS. Gray. 



Bill long, curved, broadish at base, curved downwards, and laterally com- 

 pressed beyond the nostrils ; culmen pointed ; tail short and soft, the wing 

 reaching to the end of it; 1st primary very short; 2nd nearly as long as 

 3rd and 4th, which, with the 5th, are longest, and form the tip of the wing ; 

 tarsus covered with transverse scutes. 



713. SalpomiS SpilonOtUS (Frankl.\ Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 7 ; 

 id., Gen. B. i. p. 144; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 382, No. 246; Ball, Str. F. 1874, 

 p. 397 ; 1876, p. 232; 1878, p. 209; Butter, Sir. F. 1875, P- 4^ 2 ; 1876, 

 p. 37; Swinhoe, B. Cent. India, Ibis, 1884 ; Gadow.> Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. 

 p. 330. Certhia spilonota, Franklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 121. The SPOTTED 

 GREY CREEPER. 



Upper surface of the body dark brown with numerous white spots, the 

 crown with longitudinal white streaks ; wings with transverse barrings on the 

 inner webs of the quills; tail except the central pair with 5-6 distinct bars ; 

 throat and sides of the head pure white ; all the rest of the under parts pale, 

 buff or buffish white, with numerous dark brown bars ; culmen pale brown. 



Length. 4-8 to 5 inches ; wing 3-5 ; tail 2; tarsus O'6. 



Hab. Central India (Behar, Oude and Bundelkund). ^ . , 



Gen. TicllOdroma. Illiger. 



Bill long and slender, slightly curved, trigonal at base, cylindric in front, 

 slightly depressed at the tip; nostrils basal, exposed, longitudinal, with a 

 distinct vaulted operculum ; wings long, ample, the 1st quill well-developed 

 but short, the 4th and 5th longest ; tail short, rounded, broad and soft ; tarsus 

 moderate, covered in front with one long scutse ; toes long and slender ; 

 outer toe syndactyle. 



714. Ticliodroma muraria (Linn), Iiliger, Prod. p. 21 1 ; Gould, 



B. Eur. iii. pi. 239; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 383, No. 247; Scully, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 262 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. p. 332 ; Murray, Zool. Bel. and 

 South Afghanistan, p. 53. Certhia muraria, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 184. 

 Tichodroma alpina, Koch., Syst. Baier. Zool. p. 80. Tichodroma subhima- 

 layana, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82. Tichodroma nipalensis, Hodgs. 

 J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 5 8 1. The RED-WINGED WALL-CREEPER. 



