3- MINLA. 611 



little whiter on the throat ; sides of body and flanks olive-brown ; 

 thighs rufescent ; under tail-coverts dark olive-brown ; under wing, 

 coverts and axillaries light tawny buff ; quills below dusky ; inner 

 edge of quills fulvescent. Total length 5"6 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 

 ii"3, tail 2"6, tarsus 0-9. (Mus. H. II. Godwin- Austen.) 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 5 inches, 

 wing 2-25, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-9. {Mus. II. H. Qodwin-Ansten.) 



Hub. Hill-ranges of I^orth-eastern Bengal. 



8. Minla dubia. 



Proparus dubius, Hume, Proc. A. S. Beng. xliii. part 2, p. 107 (1874) 

 id. Str. F. 1874, p. 447 ; Wald. in Blyth's B.Hurm. p. 110 (1875) 

 Davison, Str. F. 1877, p. 459; Godwin- Austen, Ihis, 1878, p. 116 

 Hume &,■ Davison, Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 373 ; Hutne, t. c. p. 519 

 id. Str. F. 1879, p. 104 ; Oates, B. Brit. Bttrm. I p. 148 (1883). 



Schoeniparus dubius, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 447 ; id. Str. F. 1877, 

 p. 113. 



Minla dubius, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 113. 



" The forehead is a clear pale rufous ; the crown, occiput, and 

 nape a rich rufous olive-brown, each feather narrowly (so narrowly 

 as to be barely perceptible) fringed with dark brown so as to impart 

 a slightly scaly appearance ; anterior portion of lores pale rufescent, 

 paler and duller than the forehead; posterior portion of lores, ear- 

 coverts, and an indistinct ring round the eye brown ; eyelid-feathers 

 white ; over the eye, beginning halfway between the anterior angle 

 and the upper margin, a pure white streak runs backwards over the 

 ear-coverts and a little further back ; above this, but only commencing 

 opposite the posterior angle of the eye, a velvet-black stripe runs 

 backwards right to the base of the nape, where, although a little 

 broken, it meets the corresponding stripe from the other side ; the 

 entire mantle, tertiaries, coverts, and outer webs of secondaries and 

 primaries (the inner webs are dark hair-brown), and tail a rich 

 rufescent olive-brown, most rufescent on the wings and tail ; the 

 chin, throat, sides of neck behind ear-coverts, breast, middle of 

 abdomen, and wing-lining uniform pale rufescent ; tibial plumes 

 darker ; sides, flanks, and lower taU-coverts somewhat rufescent 

 olive-brown ; legs, feet, and claws fleshy pink ; bill black, tip albescent 

 horny ; irides pale yellowish red. Length 5-5 inches, tail from vent 

 2-35, wing 2-0.5, tarsus 0-9, bill from gape 0-6, bill at front 04 ; 

 weight 0"5 oz." (Hume.) 



Similar to Minla mandellii, but ■white beneath and wanting the 

 streaked black-and-white feathers behind the ear-coverts ; also 

 smaller, more rufous, and less striated on the head. (Godvin- 

 Austen.) 



Hah. Tenasserim. 



