MINLA. 



ffab. From the Bhoolan Dooars to throughout the hill ranges of N.-E 

 Bengal. The above is Mr. Sharpe's description of the species in the collection 

 of H, H, Godwin-Austen. There does not appear to have been a specimen 

 in the British Museum at the time he was writing, nor of the next. 



640. Minla Mandelli, Godwin. -Austen, Ann. and Mag, Nat. 

 Hist. (4) xvii. p. 33 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1870, p. 490; Gudiv in- Austen, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 116; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 610. Proparus Mandelli, 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 104. MANDELLI'S HILL-TIT. 



Adult male (Naga Hills). General color above brown ; wing coverts like 

 the back ; primary coverts and quills dark brown, externally a little more 

 rufescent than the back ; upper tail coverts and tail feathers rufous brown, 

 indistinctly barred with dusky under certain lights ; crown of head and nape 

 of an ochraceous rufescent brown, the feathers faintly mottled with dusky mar- 

 gins ; forehead and crown with pale shaft lines ; the forehead brighter rufous 

 than the rest of the head ; sides of crown bordered by a broad line of black, 

 which starts from above the eye and extends down the sides of the hind neck ; 

 a distinct eyebrow of pointed white feathers ; lores and feathers round the 

 eye black ; ear coverts dusky brown ; cheeks fulvous, more rufous near the 

 base of the lower mandible ; sides of neck varied with lanceolate feathers 

 of ochraceous buff margined with black ; throat and under surface of the 

 body light ochraceous buff, a little whiter on the throat ; sides of body and 

 flanks olive brown ; thighs rufescent ; under tail coverts olive brown ; under 

 wing coverts and axillaries light tawny buff. (Sharped) 



Length. 5*6 inches ; wing 2*25 ; tail 2*3; tarsus O'9 ; culmen o'5S ; the 

 adult female is similar, but smaller. 



Length. 5 inches; wing 2*25 ; tail 2*6; tarsus 09. (Mus.H. H. Godwin- 

 A usten) . {Sharpe.) 



Hab.H.\\\ ranges of N.-E. Bengal. (Naga Hills.) 



641. Minla dubia (Hume), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 611. 

 Proparus dubius, Hume, Proc. A. S. Beng. xliii., pt. 2, p. 107 ; id. Str. F % 

 1874, p. 447 ; Wald. in RlytVs, B. Br. Bunn., p. 1 10 ; Davison, Str. F. 1877, 

 p. 459; Godwin- Austen, Ibis, 1878, p. 116; Hume and Davison, Str. F+ 

 l8 78, p. 373 ; Hume, t. c. p. 519; id. Str. F. 1879, P- IO 4; Gates, B. Br. 

 Burm. i. 148. Schoeniparus dubius, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 44 ; id. Str. F. 

 1877, p. 113. Minla dubius, Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 1 13. HUME'S HILL- 

 TIT. 



Forehead clear pale rufous ; crown, occiput and nape rich rufous olive 

 brown, each feather very narrowly fringed with dark brown ; anterior portion 

 of lores pale rufescent, paler and duller than the forehead ; posterior portion of 

 lores, ear coverts, and an indistinct ring round the eye brown ; eyelids white ; a 

 white superciliary streak from over the eye to beyond the ear coverts with a 

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