178 TrUEXITD^. 



Prinia striata, Sia'nii. Journ, As. Soc. N.China Branch, 1859 ; Gray, 



Hand-l B. i. p. 197, no. 2729 (1869). 

 Drynioica striolata, Peh. Sitz. k. Akad. Wien, xxiv. p. 373 (1857). 

 Suya sti'iata, Su-inh. Ibis, 1862, p. 304, 1863, p. 301 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 351 ; David i,- Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 258, pi. 18 (1877) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 1. 

 Prinia ciinigera. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 197, no. 2726 (1869). 

 PrLuia fuliginosa, Gray, t. c. p. 197, no. 2727 (1869). 

 Prinia striolata, Gray, t. c. p. 197, no. 2721 (1869). 

 Blanfordius striatiilus, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 300, 1879, p. 101. 

 Suva obscm-a, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 507 ; Ball, Str. F. 1875, p. 207 ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 2. 

 Diymceca sti-iolata, Giebel, Tlies. Orii. ii. p. 66 (1875). 

 Suya ci'inig-era, Hume ^- Oates, Str. F. 1875, p. 138 ; Ball, t. c. 



p. 207 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 243 ; Walden, in Blyth B. Bnrm. p. 120 



(1875) ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 1 ; Anderson, Zool. Exped. 



Tun-nan, Aves, p. 642 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 101 ; Scully, 



t. c. p. 305. _ 

 Suya parumstriata, David ^- Oustalet, Ois. Chijie, p. 259 (1877). 



Adult. General colour above dull brown, vdt\i a slight olive tint, 

 the feathers margined ■with greyish olive, causing a somewhat 

 mottled appearance ; lower back and rump more uniform ; wiug- 

 coverts brown, with greyish-olive edges, the outer coverts of the 

 lesser series margined with yellowish white, as also the bastard wing 

 and primary-coverts : quills brown, with hoary olive margins, rufes- 

 cent towards the base of the primaries ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers dark brown, with hoary olive margins and tips, before 

 the latter a dusky brown subterminal spot ; crown of the head 

 like the back, and mottled iu the same manner ; lores yellowish ; 

 no eyebrow ; ear-coverts and cheeks yellowish buff', the former 

 dusky along their upper margins ; throat and under surface 

 yellowish bufi ; sides of the breast brown, or mottled with dark- 

 brown bases to the feathers ; abdomen a little clearer yellowish 

 buff' ; sides of the body and flanks light olivaceous ; thighs a little 

 more tawny like the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 light tawny ; quills below brown, inner edge of quills pale tawny 

 buff; "bill black; tarsus fleshy; claws brown and dusky; iris 

 straw-yellow or golden yellow " {Scully). Total length 5'8 inches, 

 cuhnen 0-6, wing 2-1, tail 3, tarsus O'S. 



The bird described is in breeding-plumage (S. fuliginosa, Moore), 

 when, as shown by Mr. Hume (Str. P. 1878, vol. ii. p. 2), the " hill 

 is entirely black ; the head and upper hack are duller and duskier 

 brown, the pale striae faded to greyish, very much reduced in width, 

 often almost obsolete; the 5 i»7/s margined with pale, faintly rufes- 

 cent olivaceous ; eyehrow none.'' 



In the non-hreeding plumage, according to the same observer, the 

 hill is browTi above, the greater part of the lower mandible pale 

 yellowish or pinkish horny ; the head and upper back rich, more or 

 less rufescent, and more or less deep brown, conspicuously striated 

 with pale, more or less rufescent fawn or yellowish brown ; the 

 quills margined with bright ferruginous (growing duUcr month by 

 month) ; the supercilium small and inconspicuous, ereamj-. 



