564 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HAYSTORY SOCIETY, Vol, XIII 
136. SPHENOCICHLA ROBERTI.— Roberts’ Wedge-billed Wren. 
On the 24th May, 1898, I was so fortunate as to come across a 
specimen of this rare Wren. A Naga brought it to me together with 
the remains of a nest composed entirely of a mass of fine grasses, 
tendrils, and bents, without any lining, This was said to have been 
placed at the bottom of a long crevice in a large tree about 20 feet from 
the ground. This crevice was pointed out to me afterwards, but 
though I waited long by the tree the pair to the male never shewed 
itself. 
The eggs, four in number, were just on the point of hatching ; they 
were pure white, and were broad ovals in shape, rather pyriform but 
obtuse at the smaller end. The shell, which was very fragile, had a faint 
gloss, probably more pronounced. when the eggs were fresh. 
The bird is as described by Blanford, but the brown of the upper 
plumage is a fine golden brown, and the outer webs of the wing- 
quills, and rectrices are slightly tinged with rufous. There are, more- 
over, faint indications of supercilia formed by the white sub-tips to 
the feathers above the eye. 
The legs are dark brown ; soles, claws, and edges of the scutellations 
pale slatey ; irides rich brown; bill very pale bluish-slatey, the base 
of maxilla and culmen much darker. 
It was caught on the Hungrum Peak, which is about 6000 feet, and 
is the next Peak to Hengdan on which Roberts’ bird was caught. 
The Nagas call this wren “Ting linrui,” “the bird which runs up 
trees,” the same name that they apply to Nuthatches and Creepers, and 
the man who got it for me said that all its actions were those of a tree 
creeper. 
142 (8) ACROCEPHALUS ORIENTALIS.—The Eastern Great Reed- 
| ‘s Warbler. 
Flume, No. 515 bis ; Blanford, No. 354. 
This Reed-Warbler is not very rare in the plains during the cold 
weather, and I believe some birds are permanent residents as I have 
one specimen obtained in June. 
142 (9) AcROCEPHALUS BISTRIGICEPS.—Schrenks’ Reed- Warbler. 
Hume, No. 517 ter; Blanford, No. 365. 
I have one specimen of this little Reed-warbler shot by my collectors 
in J anuary in the Chutla Bheel. 
