Head black, feathers obscurely margined with rufous; lores and supercilium
pale rufous, faintly striated with brown; back and rump black, feathers margined
with rufous cinereous; tail brown above, obscurely banded; cinereous below,
obscurely banded, black-spotted near the apex and tipped with pale rufous cinereous;
under tail-coverts ferruginous; wing-coverts brown, faintly margined with
rufous; quills brown, edged with rufous; below ferruginous albescent.
Mr. Hume is disposed to regard this form as specifically identical with C. tytleri,
Blyth, but the evidence as yet adduced by him is not conclusive.
Genus S u y a , Hodgson.
1 3 5 . S u y a c b in ig e b a , H o d g s o n .
Suya crinigera, Hodgs., Asiat. Researches, vol. six, p. 188, 1886; Blyth, Joura. As. Soc., Bengal,
vol. xiii, p. 875, 1844; Bonap. Consp., t. i, P- 881, 1850 j Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus.
E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 825,1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 288, 1868; Stoliczka, Journ. As.
Soc., vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 45 ; Cock. & Marsh., Stray Feathers, 1878, p. 855; Hume, Nests
and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 358, 1878; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 188; Ball, t. c., p. 207 »
Brooks, i.e., p. 248.
Decants criniger, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 82, 1844.
Decurus cavdata, id., loc. cit., p. 82, 1844.
Drinia criniger, Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, p. 68, 1846.
Drymoica criniger, Blyth, Joum. 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, Joum. As. Soc.,
Bengal, vol. xvii, pt. 2, p. 692, 1848.
a. b. c. $ d. S Momien, May, June, and July 1868.
In bushes and hedgerows, among the ruined towns, and not uncommon.
136. Su y a s u p e r c i l i a r i s , Andr. Plate I I .
Suya superciUaris, Anders., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 212.
b. S Momien, 2nd June 1868.
Total length T ; wing T-87 ; tail 4"; tarsus 0"*85; bill 0"’44.
The bright supercilium and the faintly black-spotted breast are the distinguishing
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 under tail-coverts reddish-brown;
wings and tail brown, margined with rufous; shafts of the tail-feathers black.
Genus O r t h o t o m u s , Horsfield.
137. O r th o tom u s s u t o r iu s , Eorster.
De petit Figuier a longue queue de la Chine, Sonn., Yoy. Ind., t. ii, p. 205, 1782.
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Motacilla sutoria, R. S. Forster, Penn. Ind. Zool., 1781, p. 17, pi. viii ; Gmel., Syst. Nat., t. i,
p. 997, 1788.
Long-tailed warbler, Lath., Gen. Syn., vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 501, 1782.
Tailor warbler, Lath., t. c., p. 515, 1782.
Motacilla longicauda, Gm., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 954, 1788.
Sylvia longicauda, Lath., Ind. Orn., vol. ii, p. 545, 1791.
Sylvia sutoria, Lath., t. c., p. 551, 1791.
Sylvia guzwata, Lath., loc. cit., p. 554, 1791.
Malrnus longicaudus, Pears., Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, x, p. 644, 1841.
Orthotomus bennetti, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1882, p. 90; Lafresn., Mag. de Zool., 1886, pi. lii;
Jerdon, Madr. Joum., vol. xj, p. 1, 1840; Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Hodgs., p. 68, 1846.
Orthotomus Ivngoo, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1882, p. 90 ; Lafresn., Mag. de Zool., 1886, pL liii.
Orthotomus ruficapilla, Hutton, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. ii, p. 504, 1883.
Orthotomus sphenurus, Swams., An. in Menag., p. 848, 1887.
Orthotomm longicaudus, Striekl., Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, p. 85, 1844; Blyth, Joum. As. Soc.,
Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 877, 1844; vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 120; id.. Cat. B. Mus., As.
Soc., Bengal, p. 144, 1849 ; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 162 ; Tickell, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal,
vol. xvii, p. 298, 1848 ; Hutton, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xvii, pt. ii, p. 691, 1848;
Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 281, 185Ò ; Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist., 1858, p. 262 ; Moore, Proc.
Zool. Soc., 1854, p. 81; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 817, 1858;
Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 164; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 195, 1869; Godwin-Austen,
Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 271; Blanford, op. cit., 1871, p. 278; Swinhoe,
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 851 ; Adam., Stray Feathers, 1878, p. 881; Hume, t. c., p. 194;
Ball, op. cit., 1874, p. 414; Hume, t. c., p. 478; id., op. cit., 1875, p. 186; id., Nests and
Eggs, Ind. B., p. 881 ; Butler, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 479 ; Fairbank, op. cit., 1876, p. 259;
Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, 1875, p. 79.
Orthotomus sutorius, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 82, 1844; "Walden & Blyth, Joum. As.
Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 120, note ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 109.
Orthotomus ruficapillus, Hodgs., t. c., p. 82.
Orthotomus sphenurus, id., t. c., p. §2.
Orthotomus sutoria, id., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1845," p. 29.
Orthotomus patia, id., t. c., p. 29.
Sutoria agilis, Nichols., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1851, p. 195.
Orthotomusphyllorhapheus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 49 ; Gray, Handl. B., i, p. 195, 1869.
a. t Right bank of the Tapeng, 5th February 1875.
b. Bhamó, September 1868.
This species does not appear to extend beyond the hills to the east of Bhamó.
Family—LANIID2E.
Genus L a n i u s , Linnaeus.
138. L a n iu s t e p h r o n o t u s , Vigors.
Collvrio tephronotus, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1881, p. 48 ; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 892, 1869 ;
Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 171, 1878.
Lanius nipalensis, Hodgs., Ind. Rev., vol. i, p. 445, 1887.
Lanius tephronotus, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 290, 1846 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal,
p. 151, 1849 ; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 864, 1850 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind.