Ropinson & Kross: Birds of West Sumatra. 313 
Very common in growing rice and high grass, climbing 
up and down the blades ; if disturbed it will fly up at the 
last moment with a fluttering flight, suddenly falling down 
among the grass, which makes it very hard to get a shot 
at it. 
284. Phylloscopus borealis (Blas.) subsp. ? 
R. & K., p. 218. 
1 sex inc. Puntian, Kumanis, Padang Highlands, 
280 M. 19th March, 1915. 
In moult. 
285. Phyllergates cucullatus cucullatus (Temm.). 
Phyllergates cucullatus sumatranus R. & K., I, p. 219; R. & K., 
Ill, p. 108. 
28. Mt. Talamau, Ophir Districts, 1500 M. 
@. Alahan Pandjang, Padang Highlands, 1500 M. 
2. Sungei Kumbang, Korinchi, 1400 M. 
Iris very dark grey or greyish brown, upper mandible 
dark sepia, extreme tip pale, lower mandible pale brown, 
tip and tomia dark brown, feet yellowish or pinkish sepia, 
soles dark yellow, claws blackish. 
Wings, ¢ 51, 48; ¢ 45.5, 45.5 mm. 
Occurs among the bushes and small trees which grow 
in old forest. 
286. Suya superciliaris albigularis Hume. 
IRo OS Kos Ie WW. AUGy 
63,29. Fort de Kock, Padang Highlands, 920 M. 
6 juv. Andalas, Tandjung, Padang Highlands, 
720 M. 
?. Palupah, Padang Highlands, 640 M. 
29. Sungei Kumbang, Korinchi, 1400 M. 
3¢6. Rimbo Pengadang, Lebong, Bencoolen, 
1000 M. 
é. Pasumah, Mt. Dempu, Palembang, 900 M. 
Iris dark grey, brownish grey or greenish grey, upper 
mandible blackish brown, lower pinkish pale sepia, feet 
and claws brownish pink, soles whitish. 
Wings, ¢ 54, 54, 53, 52; 52, 51, 51, 51, 50, 50, 50, 49; 
49, 48; 2 49, 50 mm. 
The flanks are very variable in colour ranging from 
pale buff to tawny. The young exemple differs from adults 
in being paler and rather browner above with a paler bill. 
Very common in hedges in open country, in village 
gardens, at the outskirts of towns, in swampy light forest, 
in clearings, everywhere where there is a matted mass of 
low bushes and creepers, but not in the dark forest. 
