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Coloration. In suniiner the whole upper plumage, wings, and 

 tail are rufous-brown ; lores and a very short indistinct superciliuin 

 greyish white ; sides of the head rufous, the ear-coverts with pale 

 shafts ; chin, throat, middle of breast and of abdomen dull white ; 

 linger tail-coverts and sides of the body dull rufous-brown, the 

 former narrowly tipped with dull white. 



Fig. 115. Wing of T. luteiventris. 



In winter the plumage is much the same as in summer, but the 

 sides of the head are brighter rufous {T. erythrogenys), and the sides 

 of the neck, breast, body, and the under tail-coverts are a bright 

 ochraceous brown. 



The young resemble the adults in winter plumage, but are suf- 

 fused with yellow beneath, and they are tinged with ochraceous on 

 the sides of the head and neck. 



Iris hazel ; bill pale brown ; legs dark fleshy-brown (CoMurn} ; 

 in summer the upper mandible of the bill is almost black, in winter 

 nearly entirely yellow. 



Length about 5-5 ; tail 2'6 ; wing 2'1 ; tarsus *7 ; bill from 

 gape -6. 



The type of T. enjthroyenys and another specimen labelled the 

 same in the Hume Collection are in my opinion nothing else than 

 T. luteiventris in fresh spring plumage of the first year. The type 

 was procured on the 20th May at Darjiling. This species was 

 described by Hume in 1872. Brooks has written on the label 

 of the type " luteiventris, I think ;" and there can be little question 

 he is right. Hume, however, so late as 1881 (S. P. xi, p. 206, note) 

 was still of the opinion that T. eryihroyenys was " very marked." 

 I regret that I cannot find any character by which to separate it 

 from T. luteiventris. 



Distribution. Nepal, Sikhim, the Bhutan Doars, and the Khasi 

 hills. In the Pinwill collection in the British Museum there are 

 some specimens from Simla, and others described as having been 

 procured in the X. W. Himalayas. This species does not appear to 

 be migratory beyond accommodating itself to climate by moving up 

 and down the slopes of the mountains. 



373. Tribura mandellii. Mandela's Bash- Warbler. 



Dumeticola maudelli, Brooks, S. F. iii, p. 284 (1875), viii, p. 475. 

 Tribura mandellii (Brooks), Brooks, S. P. ix, p. 240. 

 Schcenicola mandellii (Brooks), Hume, S. F. xi, p. 205. 



Coloration. Resembles T. luteiventris. Differs in having the 



