In the Leyden Museum are some specimens of a bird from Timor, bearing the label « Orthotomus subulatus, Müll. Verh.», a name which I cannot find to have been published anywhere, and as far as I am aware the species has never been described under any other name. Generically this Wren comes very close to Pnoepyga, and has no rictal bristles and the front aspect of the tarsus entire. It has, however, a much longer bill, thinner, and more compressed, the culmen exceeding the hind toe and claw in length. I propose to separate it generically as Orthnocichla. The type will be