1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 589 



are solitary and silent ; and they breed and nestle on the ground, and 

 feed on insects and small seeds. Stomach a perfect gizzard."* 



Troglodytes nipalensis, Hodgson. Differs from the European Wren 

 in its much darker colouring, in having the back a great deal more 

 barred, the under- parts throughout distinctly barred, and more closely 

 so than the upper- parts, and the bill somewhat shorter and a little more 

 widened at base. Length of wing an inch and seven-eighths. Nepal. 



T. punctatus, nobis. Size of the European species : the bill shorter, 

 and vertically much deeper. Length of wing an inch and three-quar- 

 ters, and of tail an inch and a quarter. Upper parts fuscous-brown, 

 with a pale speck at the extremity of each feather, some of these specks 

 being white or nearly so ; tail barred as in the European Wren, but 

 the feathers softer and more graduated ; tertiaries comparatively broad, 

 their ground-colour a dark mahogany, as is likewise the colour 

 of the bars on the outer webs of the primaries. Under-parts 

 delicately mottled, a good deal in the manner of the scapularies of a 

 Wryneck ( Yunx torquiltaj, but the pale spots much more numerous 

 on the breast, and nearly obsolete on the belly, which last has a ful- 

 vous tinge. Bill dark horny ; and the legs appear to have been pale. 

 Inhabits Darjeeling. 



Orthotomus cineraceus, nobis. This nearly approaches the Orth. 

 edela, f Tern., v. Edela ruficeps of Lesson, and Motacilla septum of 

 Raffles, nee Orth. sepium, Horsf., vide J. A. S. XIII, 378j, except 

 that the upper- parts are pure ash-grey, without any tinge of green, 

 whereas in Orth. edela, according to Raffles, the '.' back, wings, and 

 tail," are "dusky green." The forehead and sides of the head are 

 light ferruginous, palest on the cheeks, and there is a slight tinge of 

 the same upon the chin ; crown tinged with olive-brown ; lower parts 

 white, passing to light ashy on the sides of the breast ; tail somewhat 

 brownish, with terminal dusky band, and whitish extreme tips to its 



* There is an allied (or rather, analogous,) South American form, which, I understand, 

 is the Leptorhynchus of Menetries, but which name is pre-occupied ; and the following 

 species of it appears to be undescribed, in which case it may bear the specific name sub- 

 luteoventris .. Length two inches and seven-eighths; of wing one and five-eighths; tail 

 five-eighths: bill to gape nearly five-eighths ; and tarse the same, being with the toes 

 much smaller than in Tesia. Upper-parts black, the feathers laterally margined 

 with light brownish-yellow; lower-parts clear yellowish-white, whitish on the throat : 

 a dark line from base of lower mandible ; and central dark lines to the feathers of the 

 sides of the neck, and of the fore-part of the breast. Bill dusky above, pale beneath ; 

 and legs albescent-plumbeous. Probably from Guiana. 



