THE BROWN HILL-WREN. 
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dark brown^ with conspicuous light fulvous shaft-stripes ; chin fulvous ; 
lower plumage fulvous,, with black centres to the feathers ; wings brown, 
the outer webs and the tertiaries chiefly chocolate-brown. 
In other birds the lower plumage is white, with black centres to the 
feathers. These two plumages may denote the two sexes ; but I have not 
seen sexed specimens, and cannot consequently say whether it is the case 
or not. What appears to be a very young bird has the upper plumage 
uniform without any fulvous spots ; and the lower plumage is uniform 
blackish brown. 
Legs fleshy brown ; bill dusky brown above, fleshy at the base beneath ; 
irides brown. [Jerdon.) Bill pink-grey; irides dark brown. {Godwin- 
Austen,) 
Length 4*5 inches, tail "6, wing 2*35, tarsus '1, bill from gape '65. 
The Scaly-breasted Hill- Wren was procured by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
in Karennee at an elevation of 4000 feet. 
It inhabits the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal and the Himalayas as 
far as Simla. 
Very little is known about this species. It only occurs at considerable 
elevations. Dr. Jerdon observes : — " From its habits it is not easily 
observed. I have seen it hunting under and on a fallen moss-clad tree, 
and now and then on a forest -path by the trunk of some large tree, to 
which it would cling for a few moments.^' 
149. PNOEPYGA PUSILLA. 
THE BROWN HILL- WREN. 
Pnoepyga pusilla, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 25 ; Jerd. B Ind. i. p. 489 ; Hume ^ 
Dm. S. F. vi. p. 234 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 93 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. 
p. 304. 
Description. — Upper plumage dark brown, the feathers subterminally 
paler; wings brown, the coverts and tertiaries tipped with fulvous; lower 
plumage white with black centres to the feathers; flanks rufous-brown 
with fulvous edges. 
Other specimens, instead of being white below, are fulvous ; and, as in 
P. albiventris, this diff'erence in coloration in the lower plumage may pos- 
sibly denote the sex. 
This species differs from P. albiventris chiefly in being smaller, and in 
wanting the fulvous spots on the upper plumage. 
Legs and feet pale brown; upper mandible blackish, lower mandible 
pale brown ; irides deep brown. {Davison.) 
