10. TUHTXA. 631 



10. YUHINA. 



Type. 



Yuhina, Hodgs. As. Research, xix. p. 16.5 (1836) Y. gularis. 



Polyodon, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 28 (1841, nee 



Lafr. 18.32) Y. giilaris. 



Odonterus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 113 (1850) Y. occipitalis. 



Range. Himalayas from Xepal to Bootan, and occurring also in 

 the hills of Western China. 



Key to the Siiecies. 



a. Throat streaked with hlack ; crown of head ashy 



brown ; secondaries margined ■with orange .... gularis, p. 631. 



b. Throat uniform. 



a' . Throat brown or vinous-brown ; a white eye- 

 Ud ; ear-coverts streaked. 

 a". Eing round the occiput white ; shafts to 



tail-feathers white diademata, p. 632. 



b". King round the occiput orange-rufous ; 



shafts to tail-feathers brown occipitalis, p. 633. 



b'. Throat white, with a black spot on chin ; no 

 white eyelid ; ear-coverts uniform ashy grey ; 

 crest-feathei's black edged with grey nigrimentum, p. 633. 



1. Yuhina gularis. 



Y'uhina gidaris, Hodgs. Asiat. Research, xix. p. 166 (1836) ; id. 



J. A. 6'. Beng. vi. p. 231 (1837) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal 



pres. Hodgs. p. 74 (1846) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 199 (1848) ; Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 100 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 397 (1*^50); 



Horsf. 4'- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 261 (1854) ; Jerd. B. 



hul\\. p. 261 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 276, no. 4062 (1869) ; 



Hume, Nests ^- Eggs Ind. B. p. 396 (1873) ; Blyth ^- Wald. B. 



Burm. p. 110 (1875); Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 104; Scully, t.c. 



p. 321. 

 Polyodon gularis, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 68. 



fig. 1 (no. 309) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Mi'<c. p. 82 (1844). 

 Odonterus gularis, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 113 (1850). 



Adult. General colour above brown, fulvous-browu on the lower 

 back and rump ; least wing-covcrts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts dusky brown, extcrnallj- rufesceut brown ; bastard- 

 wing feathers and primary-coverts black ; quills blackish, the pri- 

 maries narrowly margined with ashy near theu- ends, the secondaries 

 externally edged with orange, the innermost brown like the back ; 

 taU-feathers dull brown, du-sky on their inner webs and towards 

 their tips ; head much crested, brown washed with ashy, especially 

 on the nape and tips of the long crest-plumes ; lores mottled 

 with fulvous ; ear-coverts ashy brown ; cheeks, throat, and chest 

 pale vinous-brown, the throat streaked with black; remainder of 

 under surface of body orange-brown or fawn-colour, including the 

 under tail-coverts, the sides of the body and thighs slightly duller 

 brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, the outermost of 

 the latter ashy ; quiUs dusky brown below, whitish along the edge 



