440 STLVIIDJE. 



ear-coverts silvery white ; nape, sides, and back of the neck ashy ; 

 back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wing-coverts yellowish green ; 

 wings brown, edged with yellowish green ; tail brown, the inner 

 webs of the two outer pairs of feathers white ; chin, throat, and 

 breast pale ashy white ; remainder of the lower plumage bright 

 yellow. 



Legs and feet yellowish fleshy ; upper mandible, tips and edges 

 of lower mandible along commissure black ; rest of bill yellowish 

 fleshy ; iris brown (Hume fy Davison). 



Length about 4*5; tail 1*7; wing 1*8; tarsus '75; bill from 

 gape -7. 



Distribution. Sikhim and Upper Assam, in which latter province 

 this species has been obtained at Dibrugarh. It has also been 

 procured at Cherra Poonjee and on the Limatol range of the western 

 hills of Manipur ; on the Tsankoo hills at 3000 feet near Karennee, 

 and on Muleyit mountain in Tenasserim. 



Habits, fyc. A nest brought to Jerdon as that of this bird was 

 similar to the ordinary nest of a Tailor-bird, but not so carefully 

 made, the leaves being loosely attached and with fewer stitches. 

 The eggs, two in number, were white with rusty spots. 



Genus HOREITES, Hodgs., 1845. 



This genus, which contains but one species, differs from Horornis 

 in having a much more graduated tail, and the frontal feathers 

 short and smooth, with no supplementary bristles in front of the 

 rictus. 



It inhabits the Himalayas at great altitudes. 



455. Horeites brunneifrons. The Rufous-capped Bush-Warbler. 



Orthotomus (Prinia) brunnifrons, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 29. 

 Orthotomus (Horeites) pollicaris, Hodys. P. Z. 8. 1845, p. 30. 

 Orthotomus (Horeites) schistilatus, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 30. 

 Horeites brunnifrons, Hodgs., Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xiv, p. 585 (1845) ; 

 Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 323 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 163 ; Blanf. J. A. 



8. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 55 ; Hume Cat. no. 527 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ 



E. 2nd ed. i, p. 282. 

 Horeites pollicaris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 585 (1845) ; Horsf. # 



M. Cat. i, p. 322 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 103 ; Hume, Cat. no. 528. 

 Nivicola schistilata, Hodgs., Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xiv, p. 586 (1845). 

 Horeites schistilatus, Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 323. 

 Cettia hrunneifrons (Hodgs.}, Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 143. 



The Rufous-capped Hill- Warbler, Jerd. ; The Strong-clawed Hill- 

 Warbler, Jerd. ; jLiklik-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape chestnut-brown ; remain- 

 der of upper plumage olive-brown tinged with rufous ; wings 

 and tail dark brown, edged with rufous ; lores and behind the 

 eye blackish ; a long distinct supercilium buffy yellow ; sides of 

 the head ashy brown ; chin, throat, middle of breast, and abdo- 

 men dull white ; sides of breast and abdomen ashy grey, shading 



