24 TAHAN EXPEDITION. 



39. TEICHIXUS PYRRHOPYGTJS (Less.). 



Trichixus pyrrhopygus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., vii., p. 32 

 (1883). 



a. adult. Gunong Tahan. 3,000 ft. 20th June, 1905. (No. 529). 



h. m. Kuala Teku, Tahan River. 500 ft. 8th August, 1905. (No. 506). 



TROGLODYTIDiE, 



40. PNOEPYGA LEPIDA, Salvad. (?) 



Pnoepyga lepida, Nov. Zool., ix., p. 570 (1902). 



Pnoepyga pusilla, Sharpe (nec Hodgs.), P.Z.S., 1888, p. 273. 



a. m. Gunong Tahan (8th Camp). 5,300-6,000 ft. 3rd July, 1905. (No. 264). 



b. m. „ „ „ 12th „ (No. 348). 



c. -e. 2 m, f. jr. „ (9th Camp). 5,100-7,000 ft, 15th-17th July, 1905. 



(Nos. 372, 394, 395). 



This species, which is probably identical with P. lepida (Salvad.), is 

 evidently most closely allied to P. everetti (Rothsch.) from the island of 

 Flores. The female differs from the female of P. pusilla in having 

 the throat and middle of the belly white as in P. everetti 



The male of P. lepida appears to differ from the male of P. everetti 

 in having the feathers of the forehead superciliary- stripes and cheeks 

 rufous, the upper parts of a richer and more rufescent brown and the 

 flanks but slightly washed with f ulvour. 



There is a female of this species in the British Museum, collection 

 procured by Mr. L. Wray on Gunong Batu Puteh, 4,300 ft. 



Iris, dark brown ; bill, dark horn-colour or black in adults, 

 yellowish at the gape and beneath in young ; feet, umber-brown. 



[The determination of the sex on the specimen marked "f" is 

 doubtful, as it was determined by a native. The specimen agrees in 

 coloration with the other males, which is not usually the case in the 

 species of this genus. 



This Wren, which in its habits precisely resembles other members 

 of the family, was rare and exceedingly difficult to get, as it frequented 

 dense brushwood and crept about beneath the interlaced twigs, so 

 that it had to be secured by a snap shot at distance of a few feet, with 

 the chance of blowing the bird to pieces. 



Of this species, about the specific identity of which there seems to 

 have hitherto been some doubt, only two specimens have as yet been 

 recorded from the Malay Peninsula — viz., the one mentioned by 

 Dr. Hartert in his paper on the birds collected by Waterstradt on 

 Gunong Tahan ; and another from Gunong Batu Puteh in South Perak, 

 collected by Mr. Wray (cf. Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 273). The species 

 is not represented either in the Taiping, Kuala Lumpur or Singapore 

 Museums. — H, 0, R.] 



