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Show 212 DR. J. ANDERSON ON NEW BIRDS FROM YUNAN. [Feb. 21, Above brownish olive, head and nape rich reddish ferruginous; chin and throat as well as the breast suffused with rosy, and faintly striated with brown; middle of abdomen buff; sides of abdomen and under tail-coverts dusky olive-brown; wings and tail brown; primaries and tail-feathers narrowly and faintly margined with yel- ° This^pecies is closely allied to S. bulomachus, Swinhoe, with the figure of which I have compared it, and from which it differs in the following particulars; viz. the red of the head and neck is much more intensely marked in this species, the centre of the abdomen is buff, and there is no red on the wing. The latter character also separates it from S. webbiana. CISTICOLA MELANOCEPHALA, n. sp. C. pileo nigro, plumis rufo obscure marginatis : nucha rufa, brunneo obscure striata: loris et superciliis pallide rufis: dorso et uropygio nigris, plumis rufo-cinereo marginatis: cauda supra brunnea, obscure fasciata, subtus cinerea obscure fasciata, apice nigro maculata et rufo-cinereopallide terminata: cauda tectricibus inferioribus ferrugineis : alarum tectricibus brunneis, pallido rufo marginatis remigibus brunneis, rufo marginatis, subtus albo-ferrugineo tinctis hypochondriis ferrugineis. Long, tota 4-35, alse 1*70, caudee 2, tarsi *72, rostri a fronte '52, a rictu *37. Hab. Sonda, Yunan, ad alt. circiter 1700 ped. Angl. Head black, feathers obscurely margined with rufous; lores and supercilium pale rufous, faintly striated with brown ; back and rump black, feathers margined with rufou3 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. The intense black of the centres of the feathers of this species and the almost entire absence of light-coloured margins to the feathers of the head separate it from C. schoenicola. I have specimens of the latter bird from Central India with much lighter rufous about them than the ordinary run of Bengal and Cachar specimens; and the top of the head, instead of being nearly uniform dull rufous-brown, as in Bengal specimens, is bright pale rufous with narrow brownish-black centres to the feathers, and the two colours have a tendency to dispose themselves in lines. M y Cachar specimens resemble those from Bengal in every respect. From shrubby jungle on the hill-sides behind Sonda. SAYA SUPERCILIARIS, n. sp. Supra clivaceo-brunnea : plumis pilei et nuchee obscure nigro lavatis superciliis albis : loris nigris; mento, gula et pectore albis, pectore indistincte nigro maculato : abdomine et crisso^ rufo-brunneis; remigibus et tectricibus brunneis, rufo : rachibus rectricum nigris. |