1. SUTA. 181 



Young birds resemble the winter plumage, but are not so olive above, 

 being a little more rufescent, especially on the outer webs of the quills. 

 Hab. Eastern Himalayas. 



a. Ad. ffistiv. sk. Himalayas. Goiild Collection. 



b. Hiem. sk. Himalayas. Gould Collection. 



c. d. .Estiv.; e, f. Jur. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 sk 



^. Ad. liiem. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



k, i, k. Ad. ; /.Imm. sk. Nepal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



wj.Ad.; «. Juv.hiem.sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



0. c? ad. sk. Darjiling. W. Fotheringham, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 p 9 hiem. sk. Darjiling, Dec. 22, Eugene W. Gates, Esq. 



ld,l'd(W.E. Brooks), 

 q. S ad.sk. Siklrim.July 1873 ' Eugene ^\. Gates, Esq. 



(L. Mandelli). 

 r. Ad. sk. Darjihng {Pearson). India Museum. (Type of 



species.) 



3. Suya khasiana. 



Suva khasiana, Godwin-Austen, Ann. S( Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xviii. 

 p. 412 (1876) ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 59 ; id. Str. F. 1878, vol. n. 

 p. 3, 1879, p. 101. 



General colour above rufescent brown, the head like the back, 

 the rump rather more fulvous ; wing-coverts like the back, with 

 a little rufous tinge on the outer greater coverts; bastard-wing 

 feathers externally edged with yellowish white: primary-coverts 

 and quills brown, washed with olive-brown on the margins ; lores 

 blackish, with a narrow line of white above, not sufficient to form 

 an eyebrow ; ear-coverts and a line along the sides of the crown, in 

 continuation of the white streak, dark ashy grey, extending onto 

 the sides of the neck ; cheeks white, forming a long moustachial 

 streak; throat, fore neck, and chest black, the latter mottled with 

 subterminal spots of white ; breast and abdomen white, with a few 

 blackish margins to the breast-feathers : sides of the body and flanks 

 olive-brown; thighs tawny buff; under tail-coverts olive-brown; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries light tawny buff, \^-hite near the 

 edge of the wing ; quills below brown ; inner edge of quills tawny. 

 To'tal length 6-2 inches, culmeu U-6, wing 1-9, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-95. 



Mr. Hume remarks (Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 4) that S. khasiana 

 goes through precisely the same stages of plumage as S. atricjidans. 

 " In the noii-hrtedinfj plumage the bill is paler ; it has a conspicuous 

 wldte supercilium ; its lores are white ; chin, throat, and upper 

 breast nearly pure white, a little creamy ; no mandibular stripes ; 

 clear ochraceous brown ear-coverts ; and forehead, crown, and occi- 

 put clear rufous, and back only slightly browner ; tail-feathers much 

 broader and unabraded." 



It, too, has an intermediate stage, in which the breast-feathers 

 show' very narrow black lateral margins, in which the red of the 

 head is somewhat duller, and in which there is a dark spot before 

 the eje. {Hume, I. c.) 



Hab. Kiasia hills. 

 a.Ad. sk. Khasia hills (Jfrrfon). Gould Collection. 



