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Jrom whence it pours forth a loud and long-continued grating note like the 

 filing of a saw. The nest is large, and loosely constructed of fine grass, with 

 an opening on one side. It breeds in May, June, and July. The eggs, 5 to 7 

 in number, are white and densely speckled with red. 



336. Suya atrigUlariS, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Br. Mus. Passeres, 

 App. pi. 36, No. 893 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 77 ; Jtrd., B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 184, No. 549; Beavan, Ibis., 1867, p. 455; Hume, Sir. F. 1878, p. 4 ; 

 Sharpe.^ Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 180. Prinia atrigularis, Gray, Hand L. 

 B. i. p. 197. The BLACK-BREASTED HILL or WREN-WARBLER. 



Above dark olive brown, lighter on the rump and upper tail coverts ; crown 

 of the head, nape, occiput, and hind neck distinctly dusky, with darker centres 

 to the feathers of the forehead and sinciput ; lores and sides of crown dusky, 

 with a slight indication of a narrow white eyebrow; ear coverts dark ashy, with 

 whitish shaft lines ; feathers under the eye dusky ; cheeks whitish, the feathers 

 tipped with black forming a distinct moustache ; sides of the neck, throat, 

 foreneck and breast black ; abdomen whitish ; the sides of the body and flanks 

 olive brown ; thighs reddish olive ; scapulars and wing coverts like the back ; 

 the greater coverts dusky, externally edged with olive ; primary coverts dusky 

 brown with olive margins ; quills brown ; the secondaries externally reddish 

 near the base, the primaries edged with ashy olive or bufnsh; tail light 

 brown, paler on the edges of the feathers, which are narrowly tipped with paler 

 brown ; under tail coverts pale olive ; under wing coverts and axillaries pale 

 tawny buff ; bill horny brown ; legs pale fleshy ; irides yellow brown. 



Length. 6 to 6*5 inches ; wing r85 ; tail 3*6 ; tarsus 0*85 ; culmen 0*55. 



During winter the black of the throat is wanting, the wing coverts and quills 

 are broadly margined with tawny buff, a distinct white eyebrow is present, and 

 the feathers of the cheeks, throat and breast have slight blackish margins. 



Hab. The Eastern Himalayas generally. Is recorded from Nepaul, 

 Darjeeling, and Sikkim. Like its congeners it frequents brushwood. The nest 

 is globular, and made of the same materials as that of the preceding, but with 

 an opening on the top. Eggs, 4 to 5, of a dull Indian red colour. 



337- Suya khasiana, Godw -Austen, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (4) xviii. p. 412, 1876 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 59 ; id., Hume, Sir. F. 1878, 

 p. 3; 1879, p. 101 ; Sharpe t Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 181. The KHASIA 

 WREN-W T ARBLER. 



Above rufescent brown, the head like the back, the rump rather more 

 fulvous ; wing coverts like the back ; primary coverts and quills washed with 

 olive brown on the margins ; lores blackish, with a narrow line of white 

 above ; ear coverts and a line along the sides of the crown in continuation 

 of the white streak dark ashy grey, extending on to t! of the neck; 



cheeks white, forming a long moustachial streak : thro.it. foreneck and In 

 black, the latter mottled with suhterminu'. .uul abdomen 



