182 TIMELIID^. 



4. Suya albigularis. 



Suya albigularis, ITunie, Str. F. 1873, p. 459, 1880, p. 227. 



Adult female {Suiaaira, : H. 0. Forbes). General colour above olive- 

 brown ; lesser wing- and median coverts like the back ; greater coverts 

 slightly more rufoiis on the outer margins ; bastard wing dusky, 

 narrowly edged with whitish on the outer web ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dusky brown, margined with fulvous-brown, a little more 

 rufescent on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail- 

 feathers brown, edged with fulvous-brown, the outer feathers narrowly 

 tipped with fulvous ; crown of the head dull ashy grey, slightly washed 

 with olive ; lores dusky, surmounted by a narrow white line ; ear- 

 coverts dark ashy, the lower portion mottled with whitish shaft-lines; 

 cheeks white, slightly mottled with blackish tips to the feathers ; sides 

 of the neck dark ashy, with a wash of olive like the head ; throat, fore 

 neck, and breast yellowish white, the feathers at the side of the 

 throat and chest margined with black forming a black line ; abdomen 

 whitish ; sides of the body, flanks, thighs, and under tail- coverts 

 fulvous-brown washed with olive ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 pale tawny buiF, whiter near the edge of the wing ; quills below 

 dusky brown ; inner edge of the qiiills light tawuy buff; " bill, 

 upper maidible greyish black; tarsus pale fiesh-colour; iris greenish 

 grey" (El. 0. Forbes). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2, 

 tail 2-7, tarsus 0-85. (Mus. F. Nicholson.) 



The specimen described has been lent to me by Mr. F. Nicholson, 

 and agrees with Mr. Hume's description of S. aJhir/uIaris. More 

 recently Mr. Hume (Str. F. 1880, p. 227) has united the Sumatran 

 species with Suya siq^erciliaris of Anderson, in which identification 

 I cannot follow him. S. albigularis may have, to judge from analogy, 

 a black-throated breeding-dress ; but in its nonbreeding-dress it is 

 very distinct from the Burmese 8. superciUaris, which never has 

 a grey head. I am uncertain as to the range of the species, as Mr. 

 Hume, after comparing his Sumatran type with examples from 

 Mooleyit (previously identified as S. superciUaris in Str. F. vol. i. 

 p. 350), pronounces the two birds to be "clearly identical." If this 

 is the case, the Sumatran bird probably ranges along the mountains 

 of the eastern side of the Malayan Peninsula up to Mooleyit in 

 Tenasserim. I shoi;ld have thought, however, that Mr. Humo was 

 right in his first identification, and that it is the Biirmese bird 

 which ranges as far as Mooleyit, and not the Sumatran which goes 

 so far northwards. 



5. Suya superciUaris. 



Suya superciUaris, Anderson, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 212 ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 351 ; David 8)- Oustalet, Ois. CAitie, p. 240 (1877) ; Hume, 



4- Davis. Sir. F. 1878, i. p. 350 ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 3, 



1879, p. 101. 

 Suya erythropleura, Walden in Blyth B. Bitrm. p. 120 (1875) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 58 ; id. i,- Davison, Str. F. 1878, vol. i. 



p. 351 ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. .3, 1879, p. 101. 



