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6. Minla rufigularis. 



Minla rufigularis, Mandelli, Str. F. 1873, i. p. 410 ; Hu7ne, Sir. F. 

 1874, p. 447 ; Godiuin-Aust. Ann. ^ 3Inr/. Kaf. Hist. (4) x\-:i. p. 33 

 (187GJ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 113, 1879, p. 104. 



Alcippe collaris, Walden, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiv. p. 156 

 (1874). 



Schoeuiparus rufogularis, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 113, note. 



Minla castaueiceps {no?i Hodijs.), Davison, Str. F. 1877, p. 459. 



Adult male (Sibsagar, Assam). General colour above brown ; 

 wing-covorts like the back ; primary-coverts and quills duskj' brown, 

 external!}' a little more reddish brown than the back ; upper tail- 

 coverts like the back ; tail-feathers reddish brown : crown of head 

 and hind neck dull tawuy rufous, with pale shaft-streaks to the 

 feathers of the crown, which have also faint indications of dusky 

 mottlings ; sides of crown bordered by a broad band of black, which 

 meets on the forehead and extends down the sides of the hind neck ; 

 lores and a broad eyebrow white, the latter extending to beyond the 

 ear-coverts ; eyelid white ; ear-coverts dusky brown ; cheeks, throat, 

 and iinderparts white, with a broad band of ferruginous across the 

 lower throat ; sides of neck ochraceous buff ; breast washed with 

 ashy ; sides of body and flanks olive-brown ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts tawny, the latter with paler tips ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries pale tawny buff, washed with olive-brown ; quills below 

 brown ; inner edge of quills ashy fulvous. Total length 4-7 inches, 

 culmen 0*55, wing 2-35, tail 2-85, tarsus 0*9. (Mus. H. H. Godwin- 

 Austen.) 



Hah. From the Bhootan Dooars throughout the hill-ranges of 

 North-eastern Bengal. 



7. Minla mandellii. 



Minla mandellii, Godwin-Austen, Ann. <§• Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvii. 



p. 33 (1870) ; Hume, Str. F. 1876, p. 490; Godwin-Austen-, Ibis, 



1878, p. 116. 

 Proparus mandellii, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 104. 



Adidt male (Naga hills). General colour above brown ; wing- 

 coverts like the back ; primary-coverts and quills dark brown, ex- 

 ternally a little more rufesccnt than the back ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers rufous-brown, indistinctly barred with dusky under 

 certain lights ; crown of head and nape of an ochraceous rufescent 

 brown, the feathers faintly mottled with dusky margins ; forehead and 

 crown with pale shaft-lines ; the forehead brighter rufous than the 

 rest of the head ; sides of crown bordered by a broad line of black, 

 which starts from above the eye and extends down the sides of the 

 hind neck ; a distinct eyebrow of pointed white feathers ; lores and 

 feathers round eye black ; ear-coverts dusky brown ; cheeks fulvous, 

 more rufous near the base of the lower mandible ; sides of neck 

 varied with lanceolate feathers of ochraceous buff, margined with 

 black ; throat and under surface of body light ochraceous buff, a 



