YUHIXA, 317 bristles are well developed and the nostrils are covered with a long membrane. The head is fully crested. The tail is rather short and quite square. Key to Species and Sahspecks. A. Throat streaked with black. n. Upper plutuage fulvous brown .... I', t/ularis t/Nlun's, p. 317. b. Upper plumage olive-brown Y. )/. yanr/pinms, p. .'518. B. Throat not streaked. c. Throat brown. a . Ring round the occiput white; shafts to tail-feathers white . . T. diademrrta mnj^elina. -p. -ilS. V . Riug round the occiput orange- rufous; shafts to tail-feathers brown Y. occipitalis occipitnlis, i^.Sld. d. Throat white with black spot on [p.;>20. chin J", niyrinientum niprimentiuii,
(339) Yuliina gularis gularis.
The SmiPE-THROATEn Yuhixa.
- Yuhina (jiduris liodgs., As. Ees., xix, p. 1G6 (18.jG) (Nepal); Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 631.
Vernacular names. Fagi-pJio (Lepcha).
Description. Foreheadand crest rich hair-brown; upper plumage, wing-coverts, inner secondaries and tail fidvous brown, more fulvous on the rump; lores, cheeks and ear-coverts grey; chin and throat pale rufescent steaked with black; breast phiiu rut'esceiit; remainder of lower plumage dull orange-brown, duller on the sides; primary-coverts and winglet black; wings blackish, the third to sixth primaries edged with pale grey on the terminal portion of the outer webs and all the secoiularies except the first edged throughout their entire length with orange-brown.
Colours of soft parts. Iris dark hazel-brown; bill black, the lower mandible horny-brown; legs and feet yellow-buff or orange- bufF, claws dusky.
Measurements. Total length about 150 to 155 mui.; wing 6S to 7-} mui.; tail about 60 nun.; tarsus 20 nun; cuhnen about 12 to 13 mui.
Distribution. Nepal to Eastern Assam Xorth of the Bralnna- putra.
Nidification. Hodgson describes the nest as a massive globular affair of moss wedged into a fork of a tree or between rocks, and the eggs as buff or cafe-au-lait, thickly spotted with reddish brown. Nests taken for me by Messrs. W. P. Masson and sent with the birds are cradles of fern and moss roots, lined with finer moss roots and attached to the pendent roots under an overhanging bank. The eggs are pale sea-green, profusely but not boldly,
