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margin ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail olive-brown with a 

 rufous tinge ; coverts and wings brown, with the greater part of the 

 outer webs chestnut-brown ; lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts deep 

 ashy ; the whole lower plumage ferruginous, the feathers of the 

 threat and breast with numerous small brown specks, most conspi- 

 cuous in newly-moulted birds ; middle of the abdomen white. 



Fig. 108. Head of U. longicaudata. 



The young bird is uniform rufous above, without any margins 

 to the feathers, and the lower plumage is always, from the earliest 

 age, like that of the adult. The brown margins commence to 

 appear almost at once, but some months elapse before the upper 

 plumage presents the squamated appearance of the adult. 



Iris red ; bill black ; legs brown (Cockburri). 



Length about 4-5 ; tail 2 ; wing 2'1 ; tarsus P 8 ; bill from 

 gape -6. 



Distribution. Shillong and Cherra Poonjee in the Khasi hills. 

 This bird is not known to occur elsewhere, and its reputed occur- 

 rence in Afghanistan and Sikhim is erroneous. 



355. Urocichla caudata. The Tailed Wren. 



Tesia caudata, Blyth, J. A, S. B. xiv, p. 588 (1845). 



Pnoepyga caudata (Blyth), Blyth, Cat. p. 179; Jlorsf. $ M. Cat. i, 



p. 181 j Jerd. B. I. \, p. 490 ; Hume, Cat. no. 331 ; 'Sharpe, Cat. B. 



M. vi, p. 305. 



Anura caudata (Blyth), Hume, N. E. p. 218. 

 Urocichla caudata (Blyt/i), Gates in Humes N. 8f E. 2nd ed. i, 



p. 222. 



The Tailed Hill-Wren, Jerd. 



Coloration. Lores and sides of the head grey; the whole upper 

 plumage olive-brown, the feathers with terminal black edges and 

 faint shaft-streaks ; wings and their coverts chestnut-brown ; tail 

 rufous-brown ; chin and throat bright chestnut ; breast paler chest- 

 nut, each feather with a black centre and tip; sides of the body the 

 same ; abdomen black, each feather with a white shaft-streak, in 

 most cases hidden, and a large subterminal square white spot. 



The young bird is like the adult, but has the black and white 

 marks faint and indistinct. 



Bill blackish ; legs brown ; iris brown (Jerdori). 



Length nearly 4; tail 1/3; wing 1*9; tarsus *75; bill from 

 gape -5. 



Distribution. Sikhim, at considerable altitudes. Hodgson's plate 



