278 TURDID&. 



white, with a few blackish margins to the breast feathers ; sides of the 

 and flanks olive brown ; thighs tawny buff ; under tail coverts olive brown \ 

 under wing coverts and axillaries light tawny buff, white near the edge of 

 the wing. 



Length. 6'2 inches; wing 1*9 ; tail 3*5 ; tarsus 0*95 ; culmen 0*6. 



In the non-breeding plumage, according to Hume, the bill is paler, the white 

 supercilium conspicuous, the lores white ; chin, throat and upper breast nearly 

 pure white ; no mandibular stripes ; forehead, crown, and occiput clear rufous ; 

 tail feathers much broader and unabraded. 



Hob. Khasia Hills. 



Nothing is known of its habits nor of its nidification. 



338. Saya albigularis, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 459; id., Str. F. 



1880, p. 227 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br.Mus. vii. p. 182. The WHITE-THROATED 

 HILL WREN-WARBLER. 



Adult ?. Above olive brown-, lesser wing and median coverts like the 

 back ; greater coverts slightly more rufous on the outer margins ; bastard 

 wing dusky, narrowly edged with whitish on the outer web ; primary coverts 

 and quills dusky brown, margined with fulvous brown, a little more rufescent 

 on the primaries ; upper tail coverts like the back ; tail feathers brown, edged 

 with fulvous brown, the outer feathers narrowly tipped with fulvous ; crown of 

 the head dull ashy grey, slightly washed with olive ; lores dusky, surmounted 

 by a narrow white line ; ear coverts dark ashy, the lower portion mottled 

 with whitish shaft lines ; cheeks white, slightly mottled with blackish tips 

 to the feathers ; sides of the neck dark ashy with a wash of olive ; throat, 

 foreneck and breast yellowish white, the feathers at the sides of the throat 

 and chest margined with black forming a black line; abdomen whitish; 

 sides of the body, flanks, thighs and under tail coverts fulvous brown, washed 

 with olive ; under wing coverts and axillaries pale tawny buff, whiter near the 

 edge of the wing ; bill greyish black ; tarsus pale flesh colour ; iris greenish 

 grey. 



Length. 5*5 inches; wing 2 ; tail 27 ; tarsus 0^85 ; culmen 0*5. (Sharpe.) 



Hab. British Burmah (?), ranging to Sumatra. 



The evidence as to the identity of this species with Suya superciliaris is not 

 satisfactory. Gates places it as a synonym of superciliaris, simply on the asser- 

 tion of Mr. Hume that the Sumatra bird, which he named S. superciliaris, 

 is identical with the present species. Mr. Sharpe, however, says that a skin of 

 the species under notice was lent to him by Mr. F. Nicholson, and that it 

 agrees with Hume's description. He does not follow Mr. Hume in uniting 

 superciliaris and albigularis. S. albigularis, he says, " may have, to judge 

 from analogy, a black-throated breeding dress ; but in its non-breeding dress 

 it is very distinct from the Burmese, 5". superciliaris, which never has a grey 

 head." In its habits S. albigularis does not differ from its congeners. 



