642 AVES. 



Head black, feathers obscurely margined with rufous ; lores and supercilium 

 p ale rufous, faintly striated with brown ; back and runip black, feathers margined 

 Avith rufous cinereous ; tail brown above, obscurely banded ; cinereous below, 

 o bscurely banded, black-spotted near the apex and tipped with pale rufous cinere- 

 ous ; under tail-coverts ferruginous ; wing-coverts brow^n, faintly margined with 

 rufous ; quills brown, edged with rufous ; below ferruginous albescent. 



Mr. Hume is disposed to regard this form as S2:)ecifically identical with C. tytleri, 

 Blyth, but the evidence as yet adduced by him is not conclusive. 



Genus Suya, Hodgson. 

 135. Suva cbinigera, Hodgson. 



Suya crinigera, Hodgs., Asiat. Researches, vol. xix, p. 183, 1836; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 



vol. xiii, p. 375, 1844; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 281, 1850; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 325, 1854; Jerdon, B. Iiid., vol. ii, p. 283, 1863; Stoliczka, Journ. As. 



Soc., vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 45 ; Cock. & Marsh., Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 355; Hume, Nests 



and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 353, 1873; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 138; Ball, t. c, p. 207; 



Brooks, t. c, p. 243. 

 Becimis criniger, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 82, 1844. 

 Lecurus caudata, id., loc. cit., p. 82, 1844. 

 Frinia criuiger, Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, p. 63, 1846. 

 Brpmka criniger, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi, p. 458, 1847; id.. Cat. B. Mus., As. 



Soc, Bengal, p. 142, 1849; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 164, 1848; Hutton, Journ. As. Soc, 



Bengal, vol. xvii, pt. 2, p. 692, 1848. 



a. I.e. $ d. S Momien, May, June, and July 1868. 

 In bushes and hedgerows, among the ruined towns, and not uncommon. 



136. Stjta superciliaris, Andr. Plate LI. 



<S«ya superciliaris, Anders., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 212. 



a. b. S Momien, 2nd June 1868. 



Total length 7" ; wing l"-87 ; tail 4" ; tarsus 0"-85 ; bill 0"-44. 



The bright supercilium and the faintly black-spotted breast are the distinguish- 

 ing characters of this species. 



Olive-brown above, the head and nape faintly washed with black ; supercilium 

 white; lores black; chin, throat, and breast white, tinged with rufous; breast 

 indistinctly spotted with black ; abdomen and tinder tail-coverts reddish-brown ; 

 wings and tail brown, margined with rufous ; shafts of the tail-feathers black. 



Genus Orthotomus, Horsfield. 

 137. Orthotomus sutorius, Eorster. 



LepetU Flguier d longue queue de la Chine, Sonn., Voy. Ind., t. ii, p. 205, 1782. 



