160 

 638. Minla cinerea, B/y/&> y. A. s. B. xvi. p. 449; y e rd.> 



B. Lid. ii. p. 255 ; Hume, Str. F, 1879, p. 104; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus, 

 vii. p. 609. Leiothrix cinerea, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As, Soc. p, 100; 

 Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 142. The DUSKY-GREEN HILL-TIT, 



Above dark ashy grey, the mantle and upper back streaked with black; 

 feathers of the head, ashy brown streaked with black; a yellowish white super- 

 cilium present, succeeded by a black streak above the ear coverts, which are 

 ashy brown streaked with white ; feathers round the eye white ; in front of 

 the eye a dusky spot ; cheeks white, with small mottlings of dusky at the tips 

 of the feathers; chin, throat, and under surface of the body yellowish white; 

 sides of the body ashy brown, with a large tuft of white on the flanks ; 

 under tail coverts dull white ; under wing coverts and axillaries white ; wing 

 coverts and quills brown, the primaries with paler margins ; tail brown. Bill 

 dusky ; legs fleshy yellow ; iris brown. 



Length. 3*7 inches ; wing 2 ; tail 1*45 ; tarsus O'85 ; culmen - 45. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, extending into the hills of N -E. Bengal. Not 

 common in Sikkim, fairly abundant in Nepaul. Jerdon says he got specimens 

 in Darjeeling and also on the Khasia hills. 



639. Minla rufigUlariS, Mandelli, Str. F. 1873, i. p. 416; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1874, p. 447 ; Godw.-Aust. Ann. and Mag, Nat. Hist. (4) xvii. 

 p. 33; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 113; 1879, p. 104; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. vii. p. 6lO. Alcippe collaris, Wald., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiv., 

 p. 156. Schoeniparus rufogularis, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 113, note. The 

 RUFOUS-THROATED HILL-TIT. 



Adult male (Sibsagar, Assam). General color above brown ; wing coverts 

 like the back ; primary coverts and quills dusky brown, externally a little 

 more reddish brown than the back ; upper tail coverts like the back ; tail 

 feathers reddish brown ; crown of head and hind neck dull tawny rufous with 

 pale shaft streaks to the feathers of the crown, which have also faint indica- 

 tions of dusky mottlings ; sides of crown bordered by a broad band of black, 

 which meets on the forehead and extends down the sides of the hind neck ; 

 lores and a broad eyebrow white, the latter extending to beyond the ear 

 coverts ; eyelids white ; ear coverts dusky brown ; cheeks, throat, and under 

 parts white with a broad band of ferruginous across the lower throat ; sides 

 of neck ochraceous buff ; breast washed with ashy : sides of body and flanks 

 olive brown ; thighs and under tail coverts tawny, the latter with paler 

 tips ; under wing coverts and axillaries pale tawny buff washed with olive 

 brown. 



Length 47 inches; wing 2-35; tail 2-85; tarsus 0-9; culmen 0-55. 

 (Mus. H. H. Godwin- Austen^) 



