NO. 3 AVIAN GENUS PRINIA DEIGNAN 5 



Upper parts nearest hair brown (Ridgway), this color ahnost pure 

 on front, crown, and nape, faintly tinged rufescent on mantle, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts (summer) ; light olivaceous brown, suffused 

 with rufescent, faintly on front, crown, and nape, more strongly on 

 mantle, conspicuously on rump and upper tail-coverts (winter). 



Supraloral streak ashy white (summer and winter). 



The swollen edges of the eyelids orange and the tiny feathers of 

 both eyelids white (summer) ; the edges of the eyelids neither swollen 

 nor brightly colored, the tiny feathers of both eyelids white (winter). 



Under parts white, with a broad pectoral band and flanks deep ashy 

 gray, the throat and center of abdomen very faintly tinged with cream 

 (summer) ; white (more or less sullied with ashy gray on breast and 

 upper flanks), washed with cream, which posteriorly changes to light 

 rufous cream (winter). 



Tail short in summer, longer in winter. 



Range. — In Indo-China : Burma, south of Manipur and west of the 

 Irriwadi River. 



2. PRINIA HODGSONII RUFULA Godwin-Austen 



Prinia riifula Godwin-Austen, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1874, p. 47 (Naga 

 Hills and Manipur). 



Upper parts between hair brown (Ridgway) and chsetura drab 

 (Ridgway), this color almost pure on front, crown, and nape, faintly 

 tinged rufescent on mantle, rump, and upper tail-coverts (summer) ; 

 dark olivaceous brown, suffused with rufescent, faintly on front, 

 crown, and nape, more strongly on mantle, conspicuously on rump and 

 upper tail-coverts (winter). 



Supraloral region concolorous with crown (summer) ; supraloral 

 streak ashy white (winter). 



The swollen edges of the eyelids orange and the tiny feathers of 

 both eyelids slaty (summer) ; the edges of the eyelids neither swollen 

 nor brightly colored, the tiny feathers of the upper eyelid mixed ashy 

 gray and white, those of the lower eyelid white (winter). 



Under parts white, with a broad pectoral band and flanks deep ashy 

 gray, the throat and center of abdomen washed with cream (summer) ; 

 white (more or less sullied with ashy gray on breast and upper flanks), 

 washed with cream, which posteriorly changes to light rufous cream 

 (winter). 



Tail short in summer, longer in winter. 



Range. — In Indo-China : Upper Burma, except for those districts 

 inhabited by hodgsonii. 



