318 TIMALIID 2. 
speckled all over with light red. They measure 17:4 12-6 mm. 
All the nests were taken in May. 
Habits. Very little on record but it is found from 3,000 feet 
upwards and principally between 4,000 and 7,000 feet. A gre- 
garious bird and haunting trees in forest i in preference to the low er 
bushes and smaller cover. 
(340) Yuhina gularis yangpiensis. 
SHARPE'S YUHINA. 
Vuhina yangpiensis Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C., xiii, p. f i909) (Yangp 2/2/ 
Yunnan). 
Vernacular names. Chee-chaw-pum-frong, Chee-chaw, Pum-chee- 
chaw (Kachin). 
Description. Very similar to the last but is more olive-brown 
und less fulvous-brown above and the crest is fulvous-brown in- 
stead of a rich hair-brown. 
Colours of soft parts. lris brown; upper mandible black, the 
lower horny ; legs and feet orange. 
Measurements as in Y. g. qularis. 
Distribution. Hills South of the Brahmaputra, Chin Hills, 
Shan States and Yunnan. 
Nidification and Habits unrecorded. 
(541) Yuhina diademata ampelina. 
21PPON’S YUHINA. 
Vuhina ampelina Rippon, Bull. B. O. C., xi, p. 12 (1900) (Warabum, 
Bhamo Hills). 
Vernacular names. Chee-chaw-pum-frong, Chee-chaw, Pum- 
chee-chaw (Kachin). 
Description. Crest, wing-coverts and upper parts dark earth- 
brown; a line of silky “white feathers from each eye meeting 
between the occiput and nape; crest with lighter shaft-streaks ; 
bastard wing and primary-coverts dark prow? n; quills black, the 
shatts brown, changing to white at the tips and the primaries 
edged with white at the ends; tail-feathers brown, dusky on the 
inner webs and at the tips and with white shafts; lores black ; 
eyelid white; sides of face and ear-coverts greyish brown, the 
latter with pale shaft-stripes; the anterior part of the cheeks 
darker brown; under parts earthy-brown, darker on chin and 
throat, greyish on the breast and paler on flanks: centre of 
spdonicus and tail-coverts white. Avxillaries and under wing- 
coverts white with brown patch. 
Colours of soft parts. “Iris clear chestnut; bill and feet 
yellow ” (David). . 
