1837.] the Yuhin of the Nipalese. 231 



cation which may perchance be settled with an approach to accuracy 

 some fifty years hence, provided our investigations meanwhile be 

 carried into the general structure and prevalent habits of species — 

 and be not confined, as now, to closet dissertations on dried skins. 



The genus I now propose, as well as its location, are both provi- 

 sional — my knowledge of the structure and habits of the species 

 being confessedly incomplete ; and the directions of the books within 

 my reach being better calculated to misguide than to guide. 



These little birds, so far as I have yet ascertained, adhere exclu- 

 sively to the wild uplands ; prefer the lower and more umbrageous 

 to the higher and barer trees ; and seem to procure no portion of 

 their food from the ground. They are usually found in small flocks ; 

 and have a monotonous feeble monosyllabic note. They eat viscid 

 strong berries and fruits, and many kinds of insects, chiefly of the 

 scaled sort. Their intestines are about the length of their body 

 (from the tip of the bill to the tip of the tail), furnished with grain- 

 like caeca, near the lower end, and of nearly uniform diameter. Their 

 stomach has the muscular coat of very moderate sub-equal thickness : 

 and the lining neither very tough nor much grooved. Three species 

 are known to me, in all of which the sexes resemble each other. I 

 now proceed to a summary description of them, premising that the 

 two first are typical, the last much less so. 



Species 1st. Yuhina gularis ; spotted-throated Yuhin, nobis. 



Above, with the tertiaries and tail feathers, obscure olive brown : 

 cap, darker and purer brown : ears, chin, throat and breast, obscure 

 rufous wood brown ; the chin and throat spotted with blackish, and 

 bounded laterally by a longitudinal stripe of the same hue : rest of bodv 

 below, bright orange rusty : primaries and secondaries black, the former 

 with a narrow edging of hoary, and the latter with a broad one of 

 orange : lining of the wings and inner margin of quills towards their 

 bases, albescent : tail dusky internally : legs deep orange : bill fleshy 

 brown with dusky culmen : iris brown : head with a full soft mobile 

 and sub-recurved crest : size 6| by 8f inches, and f oz., bill |± inch, 

 tarsus \\, central toe T 9 S , hind toe ,V 



Species 2nd. Yuhina occipitalis. Rusty-naped Yuhin, nobis. 



Above, with the whole tertiaries and outer webs of the larger 

 remiges and of all the rectrices, dull obscure olive brown : top of the 

 head and back of neck dull slaty with hoary stripes : the nape, bright 

 rusty: ears, chin, abdominal neck and the breast, vinous buff: a 

 blackish stripe or moustache behind the gape : belly, rump and un- 

 dertail coverts, deep rusty : remiges and rectrices, internally dusky 

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