CRYPTOLOPHA. 221 



. 3-5 to 4 inches ; wing 1-85 to 1-95 ; tail 1-5 to r6; tarsus 0-65 ; 

 culmen O'4. 



Hab. The Himalayas, Upper Bengal, Nepaul and Sikkiin. 



Very little is known of the habits of this species. It is said to breed in 

 Nepaul. 



251. Cryptolopha albigularis, (Hodgs. />) Sharpe, Cat. D. Br. 



Mus. iv. p. 405. Abrornis albogularis, Hodgs. Icon. ined. Passeres, App. 

 pi. 46; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 204, No. 577; Seebohm, Ibis., 1878, p. 490. The 

 WHITE-THROATED WARBLER. 



Forehead, eyebrow, lores, sides of the face, hind-crown and nape rufous 

 fawn colour ; crown dusky, the feathers tipped with black, and forming, as it 

 were, a double row or band down the crown ; throat whitish ; back yellowish 

 green ; the rump whitish, washed with yellow ; upper tail coverts olive yellow ; 

 wing coverts and quills dark brown, edged with yellowish green ; tail light 

 brown, margined with olive yellow; along the outer webs, breast and sides of 

 the body pale olive yellow ; the middle of the abdomen white ; thighs and 

 under tail and under wing coverts, also the edge of the wing, olive yellow ; 

 axillaries white, washed with yellow ; rictal bristles as long as the bill ; bill 

 and legs pale fleshy. 



Length. 3-3 to 3-5 inches ; wing 175 ; tail 1-5 ; tarsus 06; culmen 0-35. 



Hab. Nepaul and Darjeeling. 



Nothing is on record of its habits and nidification. 



252. Cryptolopha hodgSOni, Moore, App. to Horsf. and Moore, 

 Cat. 11. J\Ius. A'. 1. Co. i. p. 412; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 406. 

 Tickellia hodgsoni, Jerd. and Rlyth, P. Z. S., 1861, p. 199; Jerd. B. Ind. 

 ii. p. 206; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 490. The BROAD-BILLED WARBLER. 



Above olive green, yellowish on the rump and upper tail coverts ; forehead 

 and crown deep ferruginous ; lores white with blackish tips ; sides of the head, 

 eyebrow, and sides of the neck dull grey; throat lighter ashy grey, nearly 

 white on the chin; rest of under surface bright yellow; under wing coverts and 

 axillaries light yellow ; tail brown, margined with olive, the two outermost 

 feathers white along the inner web and brown on the outer ; quills and wing 

 coverts dull brown, edged with olive green ; bill horny yellowish at base be- 

 low ; legs yellowish. 



Length. 3-5 to 375 inches; wing 175 to 1-95; tail rS ; tarsus 0-65; 

 culmen 0*3. 



Hab.T\\Q Eastern Himalayas. 



Jerdon says he procured one specimen only of this pretty Warbler at Dar- 

 jeeling. He thinks Hodgson's specimens were probably from Sikkim, and not 

 Nepaul. 

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