STACHYRIS. 139 



Str. F. 1878, pp. 264, 265 ; Hume. Str. F. 1879, p. 95 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. 

 i. p. 48 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mas. vii. p. 532. The BLACK-THROATED 

 TREE-WARBLER. 



Top of the head from the bill to the nape blackish, each feather edged 

 with hoary white ; a small circle round the eye, also the chin and throat, white, 

 the latter of a smoky colour ; cheeks pure white ; ear coverts reddish brown, 

 separated from the white cheek by a line of black ; centre of throat blackish ; 

 sides of the neck and the whole of the lower plumage fulvous or light orange 

 rufous, paler on the centre of the abdomen; sides of the body, thighs and under 

 tail coverts brown; the breast with or without faint indications of whitish 

 streaks ; under wing coverts and axillaries fulvous ; upper surface of the 

 body, including the wing coverts, outer webs of the quills and tail rufescent 

 olive brown, the latter obsoletely barred with dusky under certain lights ; inner 

 webs of quills plain brown. Bill bluish black above, paler on the lower 

 mandible \ iris orange-brown ; legs pale dusky green. 



Length. 5 to 5*5 inches; wing 2'2 to 2*3; tail 2'O; tarsus 0*85 ; culmen 

 07, 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas from Nepaul to Bhootan, and thence through the 

 Khasia hills and Burmese ranges to Tenasserim. According to Jerdon it is 

 very common about Darjeeling from 5,000 feet to nearly 10,000 in summer. 

 It is quite arboreal, hunting among the upper foliage and flowers of trees either 

 singly or in small parties. It is common at Sikkim, also in the evergreen forests 

 of the Pegu Hills on the eastern spurs. Blyth gives it from Arrakan, and it 

 is said to occur on the hills east of Bhamo, in Cachar and the hill tracts of 

 Eastern Bengal. It nests at the beginning of April and during May, making 

 a large deep cup-shaped structure either upon the ground or near the ground 

 in the midst of grass. Eggs, 3 4 in number, broad ovals, somewhat 

 compressed at one end, pure white and spotless. They vary from 0-73 to 0*84 

 in length, and from 0*56 to 0*6 1 in breadth. 



609. Stachyris guttata (Blyth), Gates, sir. F. 1877, p. 251 ; id., 



B- Br. Burm. i. p. 49; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 535. Turdinus 

 guttatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 414 ; Tick. 1. c. p. 4.50; Blyth, B. Burm. 

 p. 116; Wald, Ibis, 1876, p. 353; Plume, and Dav. Sir. F. 1878, p. 264; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 95 ; Bingham, Str. F. 1880, p. 179. The SPOTTED 

 TREE-WARBLER, 



Lores and forehead varied with mottlings of black and white, the shafts and 

 a portion of the web being black; a line beginning at the anterior corner of the 

 eye, passing over the ear coverts, thence widening so as to occupy the whole 

 of the sides and back of the neck black, each feather marked with an elongate 

 oval white spot in the middle; cheeks black, the hinder portion orange-chest- 

 nut ; throat white, upper plumage rufescent brown, with small triangular spots 



