. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 44. PXOEPTGA. 301 inner web ; " iris dark brown " {Goering). Total length 43 inches, culmen 06, wing 2*4, tail 0-8, tarsus 0-9. {Mas. P. L. Sclater.) Goering's Scaly-breasted Wren is onh' known from the type specimen in Dr. Sclater's collection; it was discovered by Mr. Goering in Venezuela, in the Andes of 8aii Cristoval in the province of Tachira, on the frontiers of Colombia. 44. PNOEPYGA. Type. Tesia (pt.), JIuclf/.s. J. A. S. Bemj. vi. p. 101 (1837). Microura, Gould, leones Avium, pi. v. (c. 1837, nee Ehrenh.) P. albiventris Anura,
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 44. PXOEPTGA. 301 inner web ; " iris dark brown " {Goering). Total length 43 inches, culmen 06, wing 2*4, tail 0-8, tarsus 0-9. {Mas. P. L. Sclater.) Goering's Scaly-breasted Wren is onh' known from the type specimen in Dr. Sclater's collection; it was discovered by Mr. Goering in Venezuela, in the Andes of 8aii Cristoval in the province of Tachira, on the frontiers of Colombia. 44. PNOEPYGA. Type. Tesia (pt.), JIuclf/.s. J. A. S. Bemj. vi. p. 101 (1837). Microura, Gould, leones Avium, pi. v. (c. 1837, nee Ehrenh.) P. albiventris Anura, Hoch/s. J. A. S. Beng. p. 28 (1841, nom. emend, pro Tesia, nee J. E. Gray). Pnoepyga, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 24 P. albiveutris. Leg of Pnoe/pyga albiventris. Range. Himalayan Mountains, ranging throughout the hills of Burma and Tenasseiim. Xot found in Malacca, but reappearing in Sumatra and Java. The right title for this genus is not easy to find, inasmuch as Hodgson and subsequent authors have confounded under one heading birds which are true Wrens and others which are truly Timeiiine, the latter being Tesia castaneocoronata and T. cyaniventris. The literary history of these genera seems to be as follows. Swainson in 1831 (Faun. p. 488) described a genus, Aipunemia, with fuU characters, but without indicating any type. He mentions three species as existing in the British and Paris Museums, but un- described at that date. When he speaks of the bill as resembling that of Cindus, one fancies he has P. squamata before him ; but afterwards he mentions the tail as being short and rounded, and that would seem to be taken from Tesia ct/anivcntris or its ally. On that account I do not think that Aipunemia of Swainson can enter into ornithological nomenclatiire, especially as no type is mentioned ; the name, moreover, appears to have been dropped by Swainson him- seK, as it does not re-occur in his ' Classification of Birds ' (1836-37). In 1837 Hodgson described his genus
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