5. 8UT0BIA. 



215 



edges pale isahelline. Total length 4*2 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 

 1-85, tarsus 0-8. 



Ohs. This is a form of S. inquieta, rather more vinous isahelline 

 than the latter and not so ashy in colour ; all the tints clearer, espe- 

 cially on the flanks, which are more rufescent than in the above- 

 named bird ; the streaks on the throat, too, are less distinct in 

 S. saharce, and are in fact nearly obsolete. 



Hah. Southern Algeria, in the Sahara near the Mzab country. 



a. c? ad. sk. 



Algeria (Zoche). 



M. Verreaux. 



5. SUTORIA. 



Sutoria, Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 195 . 



Type. 

 S. sutoria. 



Tail of Sutoria sutoria. 



Eange. The whole of India and Ceylon ; Burmese countries, ex- 

 tending down the Malayan peninsula to Java ; South China. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Ear-coverts uniform, whitish, or ashy, or light j svtoria, p. 215. 



brown | edela, p. 218. 



h. Ear-coverts mottled with whitish ovate streaks mactdicoUis, p. 218. 



1. Sutoria sutoria. 



Motacilla sutoria, Forster, Ind. Zool. p. 17, pi. 8 (1781); Gm. 8ys1, 



Nat. i. p. 997 (1788). 

 Le petit Figuier a longue queue de la Cliine, Sonn. Vol/. Ind. ii. 



p. 20() (1782). 

 Loug-tailed Warbler, Lath. Gen. Sijn. ii. part 2, p. 501 (178.3). 

 Tail.ir Warbler, Lath. t. c. p. 515 (1783). 

 Motacilla longicauda, Gm. S. X. i. p. 9.;4_(1788j. 

 Sylvia Lnitricauda, Lath. Ind. Orn. li. p. 54") ( 1790). 

 Sylvia sutoria, Lath. t. c. p. 551 (1790). 

 Svlvia gnzuvata, Lath. t. c. p. 554 (1790). 

 Orthotomus bemietti, Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 90 : Lafr. Mag. de 



