444 SYLVIIDJ3. 



458. Suya crinigera. The Brown Hill-Warbler. 



Suya criniger, Hodgs. As. Res. xix, p. 183 (1836) ; Horsf. fy M. Cat. 



i, p. 325 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 183 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, 



p. 45 ; Oodw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xl, pt. ii, p. 142 ; Cock $ Marshall, 



S. F. i, p. 355. 



Decura (Suya) fuliginosa, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 

 Suya fuliginosa, Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 326; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 183; 



Hume, N. $ E. p. 355; id. Cat. no. 548 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xliii, pt. ii, p. 167. 



Drymoica criniger (Hodgs.}, Blyth, Cat. p. 142. 

 Blanfordius striatulus, Hume, S. F. i, pp. 195, 300 ; id. Cat. no. 549 



quint. ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 221. 

 Suya crinigera (Hodgs.}, Hume, N. fy E. p. 353 ; id. S. F. jii, p. 138 ; 



Brooks, 8. F. iii. p. 243 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 642 ; 



Hume, S. F. vii, p. 1 ; id. Cat. no. 547 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 305 ; 



OatesjS. F. x, p. 221 ; id. B. B. i, p. 123 ; SJiarpe, Cat. B. M. vii, 



p. 177; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 215 ; Gates in Hume's N. & E. 2nd ed. 



i, p. 282. 

 Suya obscura, Hume, S. F. ii, p. 507 ; Ball, S. F. iii, p. 207 ; Hume, 



S. F. vii, p. 2. 



The Broivn Mountain Wren- Warbler ; The Dusky Hill- Warbler, Jerd. ; 

 Suya, Nepal ; Dang prim-pho, Lepch. ; Shik-Shillik, Bhot. 



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Fig. 137. Bill of S. crinigera. 



Coloration. In winter the upper plumage is fulvous-brown, 

 streaked with black, except on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 wiug-coverts brown, edged with rufous ; quills margined with fer- 

 ruginous ; tail rufous-brown, faintly cross-rayed, with pale tips 

 and subterminal dark spots ; a ring round the eye rufescent ; lores 

 yellowish ; sides of the head mingled brown and fulvous ; middle 

 of chin and throat plain fulvous-white ; sides of the chin and throat 

 and the whole breast fulvous, irregularly and narrowly cross-barred 

 with black, the bars interrupted, and frequently being only a 

 series of arrowhead-shaped marks ; middle of abdomen whitish ; 

 remainder of lower plumage fulvous. 



In summer the upper plumage and wing-coverts are dark brown, 

 the feathers edged with olivaceous ; lores and round the eye dark 

 brown or blackish ; cheeks and the whole lower plumage uniform 

 pale fulvous, the dark bases of the feathers showing through, more 

 or less, on the breast ; wings and tail as in winter. 



The young have the upper plumage, the tail, and the margins 

 of the quills rich tawny brown, with some black streaks on the 

 head ; the lower plumage fulvous, tinged with yellow in places. 



The bill in summer is black, in winter brown above, dark fleshy 

 below ; at all seasons the legs and feet are fleshy pink, claws brown, 

 iris orange. 



