164 CEATEEOPODIDJE. 



Coloration. Resembles S. chryscea. Differs in having the whole 

 upper plumage dull green, tinged with ashy or slaty on the back, 

 the yellow on the crown quite pale, and the lower plumage entirely 

 dull yellow. Of the same size as 8. chryscea. 



Legs and feet fleshy yellow ; upper mandible brown ; lower 

 pale plumbeous, fleshy at base; iris deep red-brown (Davison}. 

 Iris lake ; bill lavender, pink at base ; legs brownish yellow ; feet 

 greenish ( Wardlaw Ramsay}. 



Distribution. There are undoubted specimens of this species in 

 the Hodgson collection, either from Nepal or Sikhim ; there is also 

 in the British Museum a specimen from Assam ; the bird is known 

 from Karennee, and from Muleyit and Nwalabo mountains in 

 Tenasserim ; it also occurs in the mountains of Sumatra. 



Genus STACHYRHIDOPSIS, Sharpe, 1883. 



This genus differs from Stachyrhit in having the culmen perfectly 

 straight and, as before remarked, in laying spotted eggs. 



The habits do not differ from those of Stachyrhis, so far as can 

 be judged from the meagre information on record. 



Key to the /Species. 



a. Crown chestnut. 



a'. Throat yellow with black shafts S. ruficcps, p. 164. 



b'. Throat whitish with black shafts S. rufifrons, p. 165. 



b. Crown fulvous, chin black S. pyrrhops, p, 165. 



172. Stachyrhidopsis ruficeps. The Red-headed Babbler. 



Stachyris ruficeps, Myth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 452 (1847) ; id. Cat. 



p. 150; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 409 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 22 ; Hume, N. 



E. p. 244 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 265 ; Hume, Cat. no. 393 ; 



.Brooks, S. F. viii, p. 471. 

 Stachyris praecognitus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1866, p. 310 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, 



p. 373. 

 Stachyridopsis ruficeps (Blyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 598 ; Oates 



in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. i, p. 112. 



The Red-headed Wren-Babbler, Jerd. ; Syak-birany-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape chestnut, the frontal 

 feathers with indications of black shafts ; upper plumage, tail, and 

 exposed parts of wings olive-green ; chin and upper throat pale 

 yellow, with conspicuous black shafts ; sides of the head and neck 

 and entire lower plumage fulvous yellow, the sides of the body, 

 thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts tinged with olivaceous. 



Bill plumbeous above, reddish beneath : legs pale yellow-brown ; 

 iris light brown (Jerdori). 



Length about 5 ; tail 2; wing 2'1 ; tarsus '8; bill from gape 

 65. 



Distribution. Nepal ; Sikhim ; Dibrugarh in Assam ; extending 

 into China. 



