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bristles are well developed and the nostrils are covei'ed with a long 

 membrane. The head is fully crested. The tail is rather short 

 and quite square. 



Key to Species and Sahspecks. 



A. Throat streaked with black. 



n. Upper plutuage fulvous brown .... I', t/ularis t/Nlun's, p. 317. 



b. Upper plumage olive-brown Y. )/. yanr/pinms, p. .'518. 



B. Throat not streaked. 



c. Throat brown. 



a . Ring round the occiput white ; 



shafts to tail-feathers white . . T. diademrrta mnj^elina. -p. -ilS. 



V . Riug round the occiput orange- 

 rufous ; shafts to tail-feathers 

 brown Y. occipitalis occipitnlis, i^.Sld. 



d. Throat white with black spot on [p. ;>20. 



chin J", niyrinientum niprimentiuii, 



(339) Yuhina gularis gularis. 



The SmiPE-THROATEn Yuhixa. 



Yuhina (jiduris liodgs., As. Ees., xix, p. 1G6 (18.jG) (Nepal) ; Blauf. 

 & Gates, i, p. 631. 



Vernacular names. Fagi-pJio (Lepcha). 



Description. Foreheadand crest rich hair-brown ; upper plumage, 

 wing-coverts, inner secondaries and tail fidvous brown, more 

 fulvous on the rump ; lores, cheeks and ear-coverts grey ; chin and 

 throat pale rufescent steaked with black ; breast phiiu rut'esceiit ; 

 remainder of lower plumage dull orange-brown, duller on the 

 sides ; primary-coverts and winglet black ; wings blackish, the 

 third to sixth primaries edged with pale grey on the terminal portion 

 of the outer webs and all the secoiularies except the first edged 

 throughout their entire length with orange-brown. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris dark hazel-brown ; bill black, the 

 lower mandible horny-brown ; legs and feet yellow-buff or orange- 

 bufF, claws dusky. 



Measurements. Total length about 150 to 155 mui. ; wing 6S to 

 7-} mui. ; tail about 60 nun. ; tarsus 20 nun ; cuhnen about 12 to 

 13 mui. 



Distribution. Nepal to Eastern Assam Xorth of the Bralnna- 

 putra. 



Nidification. Hodgson describes the nest as a massive globular 

 affair of moss wedged into a fork of a tree or between rocks, and 

 the eggs as buff or cafe-au-lait, thickly spotted with reddish brown. 

 Nests taken for me by Messrs. W. P. Masson and sent with the 

 birds are cradles of fern and moss roots, lined with finer moss 

 roots and attached to tlie pendent roots under an overhanging 

 bank. The eggs are pale sea-green, profusely but not boldly, 



