68 Zoological Society. 



Subfam. SVlviana, Vigors. 

 Genus Prinia, Horsfield, p, s. d. 



7. Prinia cinereocapilla, Hodgson. 



Crown of the head grey, the shaft and margin of the feathers being 

 darker ; naral and frontal phimes, a streak over and beyond the eye, 

 and the whole under parts rufescent, brightest on the flanks and 

 thighs ; lores and upper part of ear-coverts greyish ; nape, back, 

 rump and wings bright rufous brown, the tips of the latter dusky ; 

 tail the same colour as the back, paler beneath, with a terminal dusky 

 band and rufescent white tips ; bill black ; legs pale horn colour. 



Length, 4^ inches; wing, \^^; tail, 2; bill to front, f; to gape, |; 

 tarsus, f ; middle toe and claw, y\ ; hind ditto, y^^-- 



Hab. Nepal (No. 890*, Ilodys. Catal.). 



Genus Suva, Hodgson. 



8. SuYA atrogularis, nobis. 



Colour above dusky brown, in some specimens ashy brown ; edge 

 of wing at shoulder and vnider wing-coverts buff; primaries mar- 

 gined with huffish and secondaries with rufescent brown ; a whitish 

 streak extending from the base of the lower mandible to the end and 

 under the ear-covert ; chin, throat, side of neck, breast and centre of 

 abdomen black, the feathers of the two latter broadly centred with 

 white; flanks and sides of abdomen mixed grey, brown and rufescent; 

 vent buff; thighs Imffy rufous ; tail paler than the back, and has no 

 perceptible terminal band ; bill horn colour, feet paler. 



Length, (^\ inches, including tlie tail ; wings, from 1 J to 2 inches 

 in some specimens ; central feathers of tail from 3^ to 4, its outermost 

 being only 1 inch ; bill to gape, yW; to front, ^-^-y height from chiu to 

 front, yV ; width at chin, -^^ ; tarsi, |-. 



Iluh. Darjeeling; Nepal (No. 8<);5, JIuilys. Cufal.). 



A single specimen of this beautiful bird has been in the Museum 

 of the East Lulia Company for a number of years, collected in Dar- 

 jeeling by F. T. Pearson, Esq. ; and 15. H. Hodgson, Esq., has l)rought 

 home several examples from Nepal. 



Genus Drymoica, Swains. ]). s, d. 



9. Drymoica nipai.knsis, Hodgson. 



Above rufous brown ; wings dusky brown, tlie primaries exteriorly 

 and secondaries interiorly and exteriorly margined witb bright rufous 

 brown ; tail rufous brown, paler beneath, and distinctly rayed, has a 

 terminal dusky band, the tij)S being pale but not white ; the whole 

 under parts rufescent, as in Prinia sociulis, Sykes ; bill duskv horn 

 colour, j)aler below at base ; legs pale horn colour. 



Length, 4^ to .5 inches; wing, 1-}"-; tail varying from 2^ to 3 

 bill to front, /.^ ; to gajjc, -^^; tarsi, \?^ ; middle toe and claw, -^-^ 

 hind ditto, ^tj. 



Jlab. Nc])al (No. 913, Jlodys. fatal.). 



