68 Zoological Society. 



Subfam. Sylviana, Vigors. 

 Genus Prinia, Horsfield, p. s. d. 

 7. Prinia cinereocapilla, Hodgson. 



Crown of the head grey, the shaft and margm of the feathers being 

 darker ; naral and frontal plumes, a streak over and beyond the eye, 

 and the whole under parts rufescent, brightest on the flanks and 

 thighs ; lores and upper part of ear-coverts greyish ; nape, back, 

 rump and vdngs bright rufous brown, the tips of the latter dusky ; 

 tail the same colour as the back, paler beneath, with a terminal dusky 

 band and rufescent white tips ; bill black ; legs pale horn colour. 



Length, 4^ inches; wing, \-^\ tail, 2; bill to front, 

 tarsus, f ; middle toe and claw, -^^ ; hind ditto, 



Hab. Nepal (No. 890*, Hodgs. CataL). 



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Genus Suya, Hodgson. 



8. Suya atrogularis, nobis. 



Colour above dusky brown, in some specimens ashy brown ; edge 

 of wing at shoulder and under wing-coverts buff; primaries mar- 

 gined with huffish and secondaries with rufescent brown ; a whitish 

 streak extending from the base of the lower mandible to the end and 

 under the ear-covert ; chin, throat, side of neck, breast and centre of 

 abdomen black, the feathers of the two latter broadly centred with 

 white; flanks and sides of abdomen mixed grey, brown and rufescent; 

 vent buff ; thighs huffy rufous ; tail paler than the back, and has no 

 perceptible terminal band ; bill horn colour, feet paler. 



Length, 6^ inches, including the tail ; wings, from If to 2 inches 

 in some specimens ; central feathers of tail from 3 j to 4, its outermost 

 being only 1 inch ; bill to gape, j^; to front, -^i height from chin to 

 front, Y^^ ; width at chhi, -^^ ; tarsi, |-, 



Hab. Darjeeling; Nepal (No. 893, Hodgs. CataL). 



A single specimen of this beautiful bird has been in the Museum 

 of the East India Company for a number of years, collected in Dar- 

 jeeling by F. T. Pearson, Esq. ; and B. H. Hodgson, Esq., has brought 

 home several examples from Nepal. 



Genus Drymoica, Swains, p. s, d. 



9. Drymoica nipalensis, Hodgson. 



Above rufous brown ; wings dusky brown, the primaries exteriorly 

 and secondaries interiorly and exteriorly margined with bright rufous 

 brown ; tail rufous brown, paler beneath, and distinctly rayed, has a 

 terminal dusky band, the tips being pale but not white ; the whole 

 under parts rufescent, as in Prinia socialis, Sykes ; bill dusky horn 

 colour, paler below at base ; legs pale horn colour. 



Length, 44 to .5 inches; wing, lyf ; tail varying from 2\ to 3 

 bill to front, 3*2 ; to gape, -^ ; tarsi, if ; middle toe and claw, y^^- 

 hind ditto, ^^l. 



Hab. Nepal (No. 913, Hodgs. CataL). 



