206 TIlTELirD^. 



3. Burnesia superciliaris. 



Prinia superciliaris, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. iU9 (1874) ; iS'harpe, Ibis, 

 1877, p. 16 ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. :^56 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 341. 



Adult. General colour above dark olive-greenish, a little paler on 

 tlie rump ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater 

 coverts brown, washed with the same colour as the back ; bastard 

 wing and primary-coverts dark brown, margined with paler brown ; 

 quills brown, externally edged with olive-greenish ; upper tail- 

 coverts yello-n-ish olive ; tail-feathers light brown, edged with yel- 

 lowish olive and obscurely barred with dusky under certain lights, 

 the outer feathers tipped with dull whitish, with a distinct subter- 

 minal spot of darker brown ; crown of the head ashy grey ; occiput, 

 nape, and hind neck olive-greenish like the back ; lores dusky, sur- 

 mounted by a narrow streak of white ; feathers round the eye and 

 ear-coverts ashy, the latter with paler shaft-lines ; cheeks, throat, 

 fore neck, and breast white tinged with yellow : abdomen purer 

 white ; sides of the body and flanks pale yellow ; thighs pale tawny ; 

 under tail-coverts olive-yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 light tawny bufl', whiter near the edge of the wing ; quills light 

 brown : inner edge of quills fulvescent. Total length 5-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 1-85, tail 2--1, tarsus 0-85. 



In non-breeding plumage or young dress the upper surface is 

 browner, the head dark olive-brown instead of grey, the outer aspect 

 of the quills more rufescent brown ; lores and feathers round the eye 

 bright yellow ; entire under sm'face of body pale yellow from chin 

 to vent"; tail-feathers tipped with duU white, with a very broad sub- 

 terminal bar of black. Total length -l-S inches, culmen 0-5, M-ing 

 1-75, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-85. 



Hab. Borneo. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Borneo. Pm'chased. 



b. Ad. sk. Labuan. Governor Ussher [C.]. 



c. d. Ad. : e. Juv. sk. Labuan (H. Loio). R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 

 /■' (J. Ad. ; h, i. Juv. sk. Lumbidan. Hugh Low, Esq. [C^l 

 "A." 2 ad. sk. Biutidu, W. Borneo. A. Everett, Esq. [P.J. 



I. Ad. sk. Sarawak {Rajah Goidd Collection. 



Brooke), 

 m n. Ad. sk. Banj ermassing, J. Motley, Esq. [C.]. 



S. Borneo. 



4. Burnesia substriata. 



Drymoica substriata. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 72. fig. 1 



Adult (type of species). Above light rufescent brown, more dusky 

 on the forehead ; least and median wing-coverts washed with grey ; 

 rest of the coverts and secondaries externally of the same rufous- 

 brown as the back, the primaries dull brown with narrow margins 



