THE BROWN HILL-WARBLEU. 
123 
Gemis SUYA, Hodgs. 
120. SUYA CRINIGERA. 
THE BROWN HILL- WARBLER. 
Suya criniger, Hodgs. As. Res. xix. p. 183 Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 183, Suya crini- 
gera, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 353 ; Wald. in JSl B. Burm. p. 120 ; Hume, 
S. F. iii. p. 138 ; Anders. Yminan Kvped. p. 642 Hume, S. F. vii. p. 1, viii. 
p. 101 ; Sctdhj, S. F. viii. p. 305. Suya fuliginosa, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. 
Misc. p. 82 ; Horsf. Sf 3Ioore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 326 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 
p. 184; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 355; id. 8. F. viii. p. 101. Prinia striata, 
Sivinh. Journ. N. China As. Soc. 1859, p. 227. Suya obscura, Hume, S. F. 
ii. p. 507, vii. p. 2. Suya striata, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 258^ pi. 18 ; 
Hume, S. F. vii. p. 1. Suya parumstriata, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 259. 
Description. — Male and female in summer. Upper plumage and wings 
dark brown, eacli feather edged with pale rufescent brown, the edges 
brighter on the upper tail-coverts and quills ; tail brown, obsoletely barred 
across, each feather with a subterminal dark patch (conspicuous when seen 
from below) and a pale yellowish-white tip ; lores and feathers about the 
eye very dark brown ; ear-coverts brown with pale buff shaft-streaks ; 
breast and sides of body blackish brown, each feather broadly tipped with 
fulvous ; remainder of lower plumage fulvous, tinged with ferruginous on 
the flanks. Before the autumn moult the tips of the breast-feathers get so 
worn away that the breast appears to be entirely blackish. After the 
autumn moult and throughout the winter the fulvous portions of the breast- 
feathers are so long that very little of the inner dark colour is visible 
unless the feathers are disturbed ; the margins to the feathers of the upper 
plumage are broader and more rufescent, and there is a line over the lores 
and eye, inconspicuous at the best of times, of pale creamy buff. Although 
this supercilium is, as a rule, absent in specimens shot in the summer, yet 
it exists occasionally in specimens shot even in June, in which month the 
bird should certainly be breeding and consequently be in typical summer 
plumage. These birds, however, may be the young. 
Bill black, paler at the base of the lower mandible ; iris reddish yellow ; 
mouth black; eyelids plumbeous ; legs yellowish ; claws horn-colour. In 
the winter season the bill is brown above and pale yellowish below, and 
the mouth is probably flesh-coloured, not black. 
Length 7*5 inches, tail 4)-2, wing 2*25, tarsus '9, bill from gape '7. The 
female is smaller, the tail being 4 inches or less, and the wing about 2 or 
rather more. 
I identify the Pegu bird with S. criniger a with considerable doubt. In 
all respects but one it agrees with the Himalayan bird. The one exception 
