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Minla, Sharpe, Cat,, B.M., vii., p. 606. 



As the generic name Sittiparu.f, Oates, is pre-occupied Mr. Gates has 

 proposed the above name. 



It has the following characteristics : a small rounded wing ; legs and 

 feet stout ; non-migratory in habits ; tail slightly shorter than the wing and 

 scarcely graduated, and the feathers of the tail pointed ; bill broader 

 than it is deep ; nostrils not overhung by hairs : hind toe and bill equal in 

 length. 



Key. 



a. Head grey, a long black supercilium. . . P. cinerea. 



b. Head chestnut, no black supercilium, size 



small, wing 53 — 57 mm. 



a}. Crown dark chestnut , . . . . . R. c. castaneiceps. 



b^. Crown light chestnut. . . . . . . P. c. brunneicaudata. 



c. Head dark chestnut, size larger, wing 62 — 



67 m. . . . . . . . . . . P. c. soror. 



PSEUDOMINLA CINEREA, Blyth. 



The Dushy-green Babbler. 



Minla cinerea, Blyth, J.A.S.B., xvi., p. 449 (1849); Sharpe, Cat., B. 



Sittiparus eineveus, Oates, F.B.I., i., p. 171 ; Baker, J., B.N.H.S., viii., p. 197, 



Lores, and a long supercilium yellowish-white ; a black spot in front of 

 eye, above this a broad black line extending to nape ; head croAvn and nape, 

 greyish washed with green, each feature broadly tipped black ; upper 

 plumage greyish-green ; wings and tail brownish, washed on the outer edge 

 with the same colour as back. Cheeks yellowish-white tipped with black ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of the neck paler than the back and more greenish ; 

 chin throat and whole lower plumage yellow, olivacious on the flanks. 



Wing, 53 — 58 mm.; culmen, 10 mm.; tarsus, 23 mm. 



Distribution. — Nepal, Sikhim and Khasia Hills. 



PSEUDOMINLA CASTANEICEPS CASTANEICEPS, HodgSOn. 



The Chestnut-headed Babbler. 



Milna castaneiceps, Hodgson, Ind. Rev., 1838, p. 38 ; Sharpe, Cat., B, M,, 

 vii., p. 698. 



Sittapartis castaneiceps, Oates, F.B.I., i., p. 172. 



Description. — Lores and forehead, yellowish-white ; crown and nape, a 

 dark chestnut-brown ; the feathers of the head with pale shaft stripes ; on 

 the fore part of the crown a few feathers have the inner half whitish ; a 

 broad supercilium, and just above and below the eye white ; a spot in front 

 of the eye and a long streak behind, and a spot on the cheek black. Ear- 

 coverts whitish, upper plumage, birds from Sikhim, Manipur, Chin Hills, are 

 olive-green tinged with fulvous ; birds from the Shan States, and the 

 Tenasserim, olive-green with no fulvous tinge. Greater wing-coverts 

 black, winglet white, the earliest primaries edged with greyish-white, the 

 others and secondaries edged chestnut, tertiaries black edged olive-green ; 

 chin, throat, and breast whitish bordered with fulvous and few in distinct 

 fulvous spots on the chin and throat ; flanks and under tail-coverts oliva- 

 ceous tinged with fulvous ; tail slaty edged greenish on outer web. 



Wing, 53 — 67 mm. ; tail, 45 mm. culmen, 9 mm. ; tarsus, 22 mm. 

 Distribution. — Sikhim, Naga, Manipur, and Chin Hills, Shan States and 

 Tenasserim. 



