NO. 3 AVIAN GENUS PRINIA DEIGNAN 7 



Upper parts chsetura black (Ridgway), this color almost pure on 

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

 upper tail-coverts (summer) ; front, crown, and nape slaty brown or 

 brownish slate, changing gradually to dark olivaceous brown, suffused 

 with rufescent on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 (winter). 



Supraloral region concolorous with crown (summer) ; supraloral 

 streak dark ashy, very rarely 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 ashy gray, 

 those of the lower eyelid ashy gray or mixed ashy gray and white 

 (winter). 



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

 gray, the throat and center of abdomen 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 

 rufous cream (winter). 



Tail short (summer and winter, but occasionally longer in winter). 



Range. — Kengtung State, North Siam, and Middle Laos. 



Prima hodgsonii occurs also in East and Southeast Siam and in 

 South Annam but the material from those areas available to me is too 

 scant to warrant expression of opinion as to subspecies. 



In summer dress, all the races of Pr. hodgsonii are very distinct 

 from those of Pr. rnfescens but variation within the species appears 

 only in the most subtle characters ; in winter dress, they are easily 

 distinguishable from each other but then show a strong, though 

 superficial, resemblance to those of the other species. 



Ill 



Prima inornata (with which I consider the African Drymoica 

 super ciliosa Swainson and its races conspecific) is represented in the 

 Indo-Chinese countries (excluding Burma) by three forms. 



I. PRINIA INORNATA BLANFORDI (Walden) 



Drymceca blanjordi Walden, in Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Birds Burma, Journ. Asiat. 

 Soc. Bengal, vol. 43, pt. 2, extra No., p. 118, 1875 (Toungoo, Burma). 



Range. — In Indo-China (excepting Burma) : North Siam (Chieng- 

 mai Province). 



This species has been taken in northern Siam only at Chiengmai, 

 Mu'ang Fang, and Nan. Fine-plumaged January birds from Chieng- 



