DRYMOICINiE. 1 83 



This is a mountain group of birds of rather larger size, and 

 stouter form than the Drymoipi of the plains, with the tail very 

 much lengthened. The plumage is obscurely striated, or rather 

 with lateral pale edges to the feathers more or Jess developed, and 

 the frontal feathers are inclined to be stiff. 



547. Suya criniger, Hodgson. 



As. Res.- XIX., 183— Blytei, Cat. 798— Horsf., Cat. 504— 

 Trochalopteron ? Adams, P. Z. S., 1858, p. 486, No. 125 — Suya, 

 Nepal — Dang prim-pko, Lepch. — Shik-shillik, Bhot. 



The Brown Mountain Wren- Warbler. 



Descr. — Above dusky olive-brown (with pale lateral margins to 

 the feathers, often, however, entirely abraded), somewhat darker on 

 the cap, paler on the tail, which is faintly banded throughout, and 

 with subterminal dusky spots and whitish tips ; below rufescent 

 yellow, shaded on the breast and flanks with brownish ; lining of 

 the wings buff. 



Bill dusky black ; legs fleshy grey ; hides pale brown. Length 

 nearly 8 inches; extent 7 ; wing 2§; tail 4i; bill at front T 7 y ; tarsus 

 j-|. The female is a little smaller. 



This bird is entirely confined to the Himalayas, from Cashmere 

 to Sikhim. It is found among low bushes and brushwood, chiefly, 

 from a moderately low elevation up to 7,000 feet, and upwards. It 

 seeks its food on the ground, and lives on various small insects 

 and larvae. It makes a large, loosely constructed nest of fine grass, 

 the opening near the top a little at one side, and lays three or four 

 eggs of a fleshy white, with numerous rusty red small spots, tending 

 to form a rin<? at the large end. It is not common about Darjeeling, 

 but appears more so in the X. W. Himalayas. Hutton says "It 

 delights to sit on the summit of tall grass, or even of an oak tree, 

 from whence it pouis forth a loud and long continued grating note, 

 like the filing of a saw." 



548. Suya fuliginosa, Hodgson. 



Decurus fuliginosus, HoDGS., Gray, Zool. Misc., and Cat. of 

 Birds of Nepal— Horsf., Cat. 505. 



