TROGLODYTES PALLIBUS. 



(PALLID WREN.) 



Troglodytes nepalensis (nee Blyth), Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotn. p. 66 (1873). 

 Troglodytes europceus (nee Vieill.), Severtzoff, ut supra (1873). 

 Troglodytes parvulus (nee Koch), Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 175. 

 Troglodytes pallidus, Hume, Stray Feathers, iii. p. 219, footnote (1875). 

 Troglodytes parvulus, /3. tianschanicus, Severtzoff, J. fur Orn. 1875, p. 179. 

 Anorthura pallida (Hume), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 273 (1881). 

 Troglodytes tianschanica (Severtzoff), Sharpe, ut supra, footnote (1881). 

 Troglodytes parvulus pallidus, Dixon, Ibis, 1885, p. 81. 



Figura nulla. 



Ad. T. parvulo similis, sed pallidior : corpore supra magis cinereo et nee rui'escente tincto : corpore subtus 

 cinereo-albo nee cervino tincto. 



Adult Male (Chotun-tam, February 3rd). Differs from Troglodytes parvulus in being mucb paler and 

 greyer, lacking tbe warm rufous tinge on tbe upper parts, and the underparts are greyish white 

 without any rufous or buff tinge : upper mandible brown, the lower one yellowish horn ; legs and feet 

 brownish fleshy; claws brown. Total length about 325 inches, culmen - 5, wing 1*9, tail 135, 

 tarsus 0'72. 



This, the representative in Central Asia of our European Wren, from which it differs hut little, 

 though the differences being constant render it necessary to treat it as a distinct species, is 

 found in Asia from Transcaspia eastward as far as Eastern Turkestan. 



Zarudny points out (Bech. Zool. Contr. Transcasp. p. 153) that the Wren which inhabits the 

 Kopepet-dagh, in Transcaspia, belongs to the present species and not to Troglodytes parvulus. 

 Messrs. Badde and Walter state that a specimen obtained by them at the Kiirtseverdeh- 

 tschesme spring, at the upper end of the Karange-dagh gorge, agreed closely with the European 

 form, to which belongs also the Wren of Persia ; but in Turkestan the present species is found, 

 and is, Dr. Severtzoff says, resident in the north-eastern and north-western districts, whereas 

 Troglodytes parvulus occurs in the south-western district. Bussoff (teste Pleske, Bev. Turk. 

 Orn. p. 38) obtained the present species at Samarcand and Tschinas; he also found it breeding 

 on the Iskander-kul, and observed it at Baissun and Karakovol. Col. Biddulph obtained it at 

 Sanju, and met with it about Yarkand and Kashgar ; he observes that he often noticed it 

 about the willow trees in the fields. It does not appear to have been found in Mongolia by 

 Col. Prjevalski ; but numerous adult birds were obtained by the brothers Grum-Grzimailo in the 

 Chami district (Chami and Dshigda) and the Karlyk-tagh (Chotun-tam) in Eastern Turkestan. 

 According to Mr. Pleske (Wissensch. Besult. Przewalski's Beis. ii. p. 180), Colonel Prjevalsky 



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