212 DR. J. ANDERSON ON NEW BIRD3 FROM YUNAN. [Feb. 21, 



Above brownish olive, head and nape rich reddish ferruginous ; 

 chin and throat as well as the breast suffused with rosy, and faintly- 

 striated with brown ; middle of abdomen buff ; sides of abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts dusky olive-brown; wings and tail brown; 

 primaries and tail-feathers narrowly and faintly margined with yel- 

 lowish olive. 



This species is closely allied to S. bulomachus, Swinhoe, with the 

 figure of which I have compared it, and from which it differs in the 

 following particulars ; viz. the red of the head and neck is much more 

 intensely marked in this species, the centre of the abdomen is buff, 

 and there is no red on the winy. The latter character also separates 

 it from S. webbiana. 



ClSTICOI.A MELANOCEPHALA, 11. Sp. 



C. pileo nigro, plumis rufo obscure marginatis : nucha ru/a, brunneo 



obscure striata : loris et superciliis pallide rufis : dorso et uropygio 



nigris, plumis rufo-cinereo marginatis: cauda supra brunnea, oZ>- 



scure fasciata, subtus cinerea obscure fasciata, apice nigro macu- 



lata et rufo ■ cinereo pallide terminata : caudce tectricibus inferioribus 



ferrugineis : alarum tectricibus brunneis, pallido rufo marginatis : 



remigibus brunneis, rufo marginatis, subtus albo-ferrugineo tinctis : 



hypochondriis ferrugineis . 



Long, tota 4-35, alse 170, caudse 2, tarsi - /2, rostri a fronte '52, 



a rictu m 37. 



Hab. Sonda, Yunan, ad alt. circiter 1 700 ped. Angl. 

 Head black, feathers obscurely margined with rufous ; lores and 

 supercilium pale rufous, faintly striated with brown ; back and rump 

 black, feathers margined with rufous cinereous ; tail brown above, 

 obscurely banded, cinereous below, obscurely banded, black- spotted 

 near the apex and tipped with pale rufous cinereous ; under tail- 

 coverts ferruginous ; wing-coverts brown, faintly margined with ru- 

 fous ; quills brown, edged with rufous ; below ferruginous albescent. 

 The intense black of the centres of the feathers of this species 

 and the almost entire absence of light-coloured margins to the fea- 

 thers of the head separate it from C. schcenicola. I have specimens 

 of the latter bird from Central India with much lighter rufous about 

 them than the ordinary run of Bengal and Cachar specimens ; and 

 the top of the head, instead of being nearly uniform dull rufous- 

 brown, as in Bengal specimens, is bright pale rufous with narrow 

 brownish-black centres to the feathers, and the two colours have a 

 tendency to dispose themselves in lines. My Cachar specimens re- 

 semble those from Bengal in every respect. 



P'rom shrubby jungle on the hill-sides behind Sonda. 



Saya stjperciliaris, n. sp. 



Supra clivaceo-brunnea : plumis pilei et nuchee obscure nigro lavatis : 

 superciliis albis : loris nigris ; mento, gula et pectore albis, sub- 

 rufescentibus : pectore indistincte nigro maculato : abdomine et 

 crisso rufo-brunneis ; remigibus et tectricibus brunneis, rufo mar- 

 ginatis : rachibus rectricum nigris. 



