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dull greenish-yellow, with black streaks ; upper plumage and exposed part 

 of the wings, bright olive-yellow to slaty-green ; tail greenish-brown washed 

 with yellow on the outer webs ; lower plumage bright yellow to dull yellow. 

 Distribution. — Stachyrhis chryscea chrysaa, Hodgson, Nepal, Sikhim, 

 Assam, and also Kachin Hill, East of Bhamo ; *S'. o. assiinilis, Walden, S. Shan 

 States and Karennee ; S. c. cJwysojJs, Richmond, Malay Peninsula and 

 possibly Siam and the Mekong watershed ; S. c. binghami, Rippon, the 

 Chin Hills ; S. c. bocagii, Salvadori. 



* Stachykhis chbys^a chrysaa, Hodgson. 

 The Nepal Golden-headed Babbler. 



Stachyrhis chryscea, Blyth, J.A.S.B., xiii. p. 379 (1844). 



Stachyrhidopsis chryscea, Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p.- 601. 



Stachyrhis chryscea, Gates, F.B.I., i., p. 163. 



Description. — Lores and a streah to the eye blach ; forehead bright 

 orange, feathers of the head distinctly striped with black in the centre ; 

 throat from a rich orange to an orange-yellow (birds from N.-E. Assam and 

 Naga Hills brightest ) ; ear-coverts greenish-yellow. 



Distribution. — Nepal, Sikhim to Assam, and the Kachin Hills. 



Stachykhis chkys^a assimilis, Walden. 

 The Burmese Golden-headed Babbler. 



Stachyrhis assiinilis, Walden, Blyth's Birds Burma, p, 116 (1895). 



Stachyrhidopsis assiinilis, Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p. 602. Gates, F. B. I., i. 



Description. — Similar to chryscea, but no black streak in front of the eye ; 

 lores greenish-grey ; the stripes on the head indistinct and blurred ; upper 

 plumage greenish-olive to slaty-green ; under parts dull yellow. Birds 

 from the Shan States and Muleyit Mt., Tenasserim, show indications of a 

 black streak in front of the eye and so tending towards chrysops. 



" Above cinerous olive-green. Feathers of the head yellow with brown 

 central streaks, cheeks and ear-coverts, pale brown tinged with yellow. 

 Entire under surface dilute yellow. Quills, brown edged externally with pale 

 y.ellow. Rectrecies, cinerous-brown tinged with olive-green. Wing, 1-92". 

 Blyth, Birds Burma, p. 116. 



Karennee: Male: iris, black ; bill lavender, pink at base of mandible, 

 legs brownish-yellow, feet greenish. Female : iris brown, bill dark plumbe- 

 ous, pink at base of mandible ; legs light greenish-brown." (W.R.) 



There are four specimens in the British Museum from Nepal and Assam, 

 these are probably the ones referred to by Gates, they are old and faded 



* Stachyrhis chrysaa chrysops, Kichmond. 



Richmond, Proc, Biol. See, Washington, xv., p. 157 (1902). 



This seems to be very near S. chryscBa, AU the specimens in the Museum are 

 from the Malay Peninsula, and are marked as that sub-species. 



Description. — Lores and a black moustacial streak, and under parts like 

 S. chryscea ; upper plumage " like assimilis ; the markings on the head not so 

 distinct as in chryscea. Worn specimens are exactly like assimilis from Burma. 



Onie bird from Loi Pang Nan, S. S. States near the Mekong, is exactly hke the 

 Malay specimens, as this locality is on the borders of Siam, it is probably that sub- 

 species. 



Stachyrhis chrysaa BOCAcn, Salvadori. 



Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p. 602, foot-note. 



" Above, greenish-olive ; head yellowish, the crown streaked with dusky ; lores 

 dusky ; undersurface of body yellow, the throat brighter, the sides tinged with 

 green ; wings and tail dusky ashy grey,the outer margins of the feathers greenish- 

 olive ; bill and feet dusky ; iris chestnut. 



Total length, 4-3"; bill, 45"; wing, 2"; tail, 1-75"; tarsus, 68." (Salvadori). 

 Habitat. — Mountains of Sumatra. 



