638 AVES. 



Genus Chleuasicus, Blyth. 

 126. Chletjasicus ruficeps, Blyth.^ Plate XLVII. 



CJileimsicus mficeps, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlv, p. 578, 1845 ; JerdoB, B. Ind., vol. ii, 



p. 7, 1863 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. v, 1877, p. 499. 

 Sttfhora ruficeps, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 102, 1849 ; Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, 



p. 23.5, 1870. 

 C/ileuasicus ruficeps atro-mperciliaris , var., Godwin-Austen, Proc. As. Soc, Bengal, 1877, p. 147. 

 Chleuasicus atro-supercilians, Godwin- Austen, Proc. As. Soe., Bengal, 1877, p. 102; Journ. As. Soc., 



Bengal, vol. xxvi, 1877, p. 44 ; Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 499. 



a. Ponsee, 22nd April 1868. 



I shot this rare bird among tall grass at an elevation of about 4,500 feet, near 

 the summit of the ridge above Ponsee. It was flitting amongst the grass from 

 stem to stem with its mate. 



This specimen which I have figured has a narrow black band from the bill to 

 the anterior angle of the eye, passing over the eye as a narrow supercilium, expand- 

 ing somewhat behind it over the ear-coverts, and in this respect it corresponds to 

 the bird described by Lieutenant- Colonel Godwin- Austen as a variety from India 

 or Upper Assam, and which Mr. Hume believes to be the male bird. 



Genus Suthoba, Hodgson. 

 127. SuTHORA BRUNNEA, Andr. Plate XLIX. 



Bnthora Inimiea, Anderson, P. Z. S., 1871, p. 211 ; Swinh., t. c, p. 373 ; Gould, B. A., pt. xxviii, 1876. 

 SutJwra suffusa, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1871, p. 372. 



a. h. c. ^ d. Momien, 5th June 1868. 



Total length 5"- 20; wing 2"-15 ; tail 2"-74; biU 0"-35 ; tarsus 0"-84. 



Above brownish-olive, head and nape rich reddish ferruginous ; chin and throat 

 as well as the breast suffused with rosy, and faintly striated with brown ; middle of 

 abdomen buff ; sides of abdomen and under tail-coverts dusky oUve-brown ; wings 

 and tail brown; primaries and tail-feathers narrowly and faintly margiaed with 

 yellowish-olive. 



The characters which Swinhoe assigned to S. suffusa are those by which 

 I distinguished between S. bulomacTms, Swinhoe, and this species, viz., the much 

 richer character of the red of the head and neck in S. brmmea, and the absence of 

 red on the wing ; the centre of the abdomen being buff. Besides S. webbiana there 

 are the recently discovered species by M.l'Abbe David, S. conspicillata, S. cyano- 

 ■phrys, and S. gularis, the latter allied to the beautiful little golden-headed species 

 S. dajiaensis, discovered by Lieutenant- Colonel Godwin- Austen in the Dafla bills. 



' Thruugh an oversight on the part of those entrusted with the preparation of the plates in London, I regret that 

 an orthographical error has been allowed to pass in the naming of this plate. 



