NOTES ON A NEW SPECIES OF WEEN 319 



NOTES ON A NEW SPECIES OF WREN FOUND IN 

 NORTH CACHAR, ASSAM. 



By E. C. Stuart Baker. 

 {With 1 Plate.) 



* Elachura haplonota, sp. nov, 

 (Plain Brown Wren.) 



Description. — Whole upper plumage and wing-coverts dark 

 umber-brown, ratber lighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 the feathers obsoletely edged rather pale sienna-brown ; wings dark 

 cinnamon-brown on the exposed parts and dark brown where 

 unexposed (in the closed wing) ; tail brown, tinged with cinnamon- 

 red, but not so strongly as are the wing quills ; lores fulvous-brown, 

 dusky next the eyes ; chin and throat white tinged with fulvous, and 

 the feathers, except in the centre, tipped dusky ; breast and sides of 

 neck fulvous-brown, the feathers tipped brown and sub-tipped white, 

 the white being most prominent in the centre of the breast ; centre 

 of abdomen and belly white ; flanks and under tail-coverts fulvous- 

 brown, some of the feathers of the former tipped white ; thighs 

 greyish-brown, the feathers with the shafts slightly paler ; under 

 wing-coverts grey ; axiliaries dark fulvous-brown. 



Bill dark horny, slightly paler at the commissure and tip ; gape 

 black, mouth bluish, fleshy ; irides light red ; legs sanguineous, fleshy ; 

 claws very pale. 



Length, measured in the flesh immediately after death, 4'] 5"; 

 wing 1-95"; tail 1-58"; bill at front -41" and from gape '52"; tarsus 

 barely 'G"; length of hind claw nearly '28*. First primary, '72"; 

 second, 1"02''; third, 1*25''; fourth to secondaries, I'S". 



Mr. Sclater (British Museum), to whom the bird was sent for 

 identification, gives the following short diagnosis of it : — 

 " Elachura — 



" Similis E. punctata, sed supra concolor, minime albo punctata 

 " (dorsi punctis albis nuUis) et remigibus caudaque unicoloribus nee 

 "nigro transfasciatis." 



* A description of this new Bird appeared in the Ihis in January, 1892. 

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