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bristles are well developed and the nostrils are covered with a long 
membrane. The head is fully crested. The tail is rather short 
and quite square. 
Key to Species and Subspecies. 
A. Throat streaked with black. 
a. Upper plumage fulvous brown.... ¥. gularis gularis, p. 317. 
6. Upper plumage olive-brown ..... . Lg. yangpiensis, p. 318. 
B. Throat not streaked. 
ce, Throat brown. 
a’. Ring round the occiput white ; 
shafts to tail-feathers white ..  Y.diademata ampelina,p.518. 
b'. Ring round the occiput orange- 
rufous; shafts to tail-feathers 
JRO seo dani ee biorcn Gna Y. occipitalis oecipitahs, p. 319. 
d. Throat white with black spot on [p. 320. 
HNN bene Soe man ee aol ackers Y. nigrimentum ngrimentum, 
(339) Yuhina gularis gularis. 
Tue StRIPE-THROATED YUHINA, 
Yuhina gularis Hodgs., As. Res., xix, p. 166 (1836) (Nepal) ; Blanf. 
& Oates, i, p. 631. 
Vernacular names. /ugi-pho (Lepcha). 
Description. Foreheadand crest rich hair-brown; upper plumage, 
wing-coverts, inner secondaries and tail fulvous brown, more 
fulvous on the rump ; lores, cheeks and ear-coverts grey ; chin and 
throat pale rufescent steaked with black; breast plain rufescent ; 
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 secondaries except the first edged 
throughout their entire length with orange-brown. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris dark hazel-brown; Dill black, the 
lower mandible horny-brown ; legs and feet yellow-buff or orange- 
buff, claws dusky. 
Measurements. Total length about 150 to 155 mm.; wing 68 to 
72 mm.; tail about 60 mm.; tarsus 20 mm; culmen about 12 to 
13 mm. 
Distribution. Nepal to Eastern Assam North of the Brahma- 
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 café-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 the pendent roots under an overhanging 
bank. The eggs are pale sea-green, profusely but not boldly, 
