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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
lies in the colour of the breast-feathers. In S. crinigera, even in newly 
moulted birds^ at least two-thirds of each feather are black ; in the Pegu 
bird only the very smallest portion of the base is blacky so little indeed 
that under no circumstances is any black visible without lifting the feathers. 
In this respect it agrees with S. obscura from Cashmeer. 
S. fuliginosa is merely S. crinigera with the tips of the breast-feathers 
so worn away that the whole breast appears black. S. striata, Swinhoe^ 
resembles the Pegu bird in having very little black on the breast. 
The Brown Hill- Warbler occurs at Thayetmyo in Pegu, where I met 
with it on several occasions. It was not uncommon in the brushwood near 
the rifle-range north of the cantonment. It has not been obtained any- 
where else in Burmah. 
Dr. Anderson procured it near Bhamo and Col. Godwin- Austen in the 
Khasia hills. It inhabits the Himalayas from Assam to Afghanistan,, and 
it extends into China and is even found in Formosa. 
This bird is a resident species wherever it is found. It frequents brush- 
wood and may occasionally be seen on Ioav trees. It breeds in the 
Himalayas from May to July, constructing a cup-shaped nest of grass- 
down held together by fine grasses. The nest is usually placed in a low 
bush. The eggs are five to seven in number, white densely speckled with 
red. 
121. SUYA SUPERCILIARIS. 
ANDERSON'S HILL-WARBLER. 
Suya superciliaris, Anders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 212; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, ^. 260; 
Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 642, pi. li. ; Hume Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 350 ; Hume, 
S. F. vii. p. 3, viii. p. 101. Suya albogularis, Hume, S. F. i. p. 459, ix, p. 227. 
Suya erythropleura, Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 120 ; Hume, S. F. v. p. 58 ; 
Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 351 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 101. 
Description, — Male and female (April and June). Upper plumage and 
tail rufescent brown, the head browner ; the rectrices tipped pale ; a very 
distinct supercilium from the nostrils to the nape white ; lores black ; ear- 
coverts pale brown with whitish shaft-stripes; feathers above the ear- 
coverts dark brown ; chin, throat, breast and abdomen white tinged with 
fulvous ; sides of the body, vent, thighs and under tail-coverts ferruginous ; 
wings brown edged with dark rufous. 
Iris greenish brown ; legs flesh-colour {Wardlaw Ramsay), Legs, feet, 
claws and lower mandible fleshy pink ; upper mandible black ; irides 
brownish yellow. [Davison.) 
Length 7 inches, tail 4-5, wing 2, tarsus -85, bill from gape "65, 
