2. PRINIA. 183 



Adult female. General colour above iiiiiform browu ; wing-coverts 

 like the back ; bastard wing and primary-coverts dusky, externallj- 

 margined with yellowish white ; quills dusky brown, externally ful- 

 vous-brown ; the secondaries a little more rufous ; upper tail-coverts 

 like the back, with a slight rufous tinge on the outer ones ; tail- 

 feathers brown with fulvescent margins ; crown of the head darker 

 than the back, of an ash}--olive colour ; lores blackish, surmounted 

 by a narrow white eyebrow ; feathers round the eye also whitish ; 

 ear-coverts dull ashy brown, with whitish shaft-lines ; throat and 

 breast light yellowish butf, the abdomen whiter ; on the breast a few 

 black margins to some of the feathers ; sides of the body, flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-covcrts tawny buff ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries very pale tawnj' buff, whiter along the edge of the wing ; 

 quills below brown; inner edge of quills light rufous; "upper 

 mandible black, lower mandible fleshy pink ; legs, feet, and claws 

 fleshy pink ; iris brownish yellow " (Davison). Total length 7 inches, 

 • culmen 0'5, wing l-So, tail 3'S, tarsus 0-85. 



The type of S. erythropleura, Walden, is a male, and measures as 

 follows : — Total leng-th 7'4 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 1-95, tail 4-4, 

 tarsus 0-9 {Mus. E. G. Wanllmv Bamsay). It is identical with S. 

 superciliaris. 



I was at one time inclined to think that the present species might 

 be the cold-weather dress of S. Ihasiana ; but the latter species always 

 has a rufous head. Whether it is a stage of plumage of ;S'. alhigw- 

 laris can only be made out from a larger series of specimens. 



Hab. Hills of Burmah and Tenasserim. 

 a. 5 ad. sk. Momien, Yim-nan, June 2, 1868. Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



2. PRINIA. ^ 



Type. 

 Prinia, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 164 (1820) .... P. familiaris. 



Daseocharis, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 45 (1850) P. familiaris. 



Drymoipus, Bi). Comptes Mendus, xxxix. p. 11 (1854) . . P. poljchroa. 



Bill of Prinia inornata. 



Banr/e. The whole of the Ethiopian and Indian Eegions, extend- 

 ing throughout the Eurmese countries and southern China. Java. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With no stripes on the chest. 



a' . With a distinct dusky subtermiual 

 spot on the tail-feathers. 

 a". White spots on wing-coverts; 

 throat and breast white, contras- 

 ting with tlie abdomen, which is 

 pale yellow familiaris, p. 185, 



