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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. 



. Upper plumage fulvous brown .... Y. gularis guluris, p. 317. 

 6. Upper plumage olive-brown Y. g. yangpiensis, p. 318. 



B. Throat not streaked. 



c. Throat brown. 



a . Ring round the occiput white ; 



shafts to tail-feathers white . . Y.diadenwtaampelina,-p.3l8. 

 V. Ring round the occiput orange- 



rut'ous; shafts to tail-feathers 



brown Y.occipitalis occipitalis,Tp.319. 



d. Throat white with black spot on [p. 320. 



chin Y. nigrinifntum nigrimentum, 



(339) Yuhina gularis gularis. 

 THE STKIPE-THEOATED YUHINA. 



Yuhina gularis Hodgs., As. Res., xix, p. 166 (1836) (Nepal) ; Blanf. 

 & Gates, i, p. 631. 



Vernacular names. F-ugi-pho (Lepcha). 



Description. Forehead and crest rich hair-brown ; upper plumage, 

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

 fulvous 011 the rutnp ; lores, cheeks and ear-coverts grey ; chin and 

 throat pale rufeseent steaked with black ; breast plain rut'escent ; 

 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 ; bill 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 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 the pendent roots under an overhanging 

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



