. Birds. Birds. 162 oeateeopodidjE. Key to the Sjoedes. a. Crown black streaked witli white S- nigrkeps, p. 162. 6. Crown golden yellow streaked with black. a'. Back bright olive-yellow S. chrysisa, p. 163. 6'. Back slaty green S. assimihe, p. 163. 169. StachyrMs nigriceps. The Black-throated Babbler. Stachyris nigriceps, Hodgs. Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xiif, p. 378 (1844) ; Hodgs. in Grafs Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 22; Blyth, Cat. p. 150; Sorsf. %M. Cat. \, p. 231; Jerd. B. , p. 21; Hume, N. i^ E. p. 242 ; id. S. F. iii, p. 117; Oates, S. F. y, p. 262; Anders. Yunnan Fxped
. Birds. Birds. 162 oeateeopodidjE. Key to the Sjoedes. a. Crown black streaked witli white S- nigrkeps, p. 162. 6. Crown golden yellow streaked with black. a'. Back bright olive-yellow S. chrysisa, p. 163. 6'. Back slaty green S. assimihe, p. 163. 169. StachyrMs nigriceps. The Black-throated Babbler. Stachyris nigriceps, Hodgs. Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xiif, p. 378 (1844) ; Hodgs. in Grafs Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 22; Blyth, Cat. p. 150; Sorsf. %M. Cat. \, p. 231; Jerd. B. , p. 21; Hume, N. i^ E. p. 242 ; id. S. F. iii, p. 117; Oates, S. F. y, p. 262; Anders. Yunnan Fxped., Aves, p. 636; Hume ^ Bav. S. F. vi, p. 264; Hum£, Cat. no. 391; Oates, S. F. x, p. 206; id. B. B. i, p. 48; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 532; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 141; Oates in Hume' Sr B. 2nd ed. i, p. 110. The Black-throated Wren-Babbler, Jerd.; Sangrimir^ho, Pigi 47.—Head of 8. nigriceps. Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape black, the feathers edged with white, giving a streaked appearance to those parts; round the eye white; ear-coverts varying from orange to rufous-brown and plain brown; cheeks white; chin grey; throat sometimes entirely black, sometimes black mottled with white ; whole upper plumage rich olive-brown, the tail and exposed parts of wings rufous; entire lower plumage bright fulvous, tinged with olivaceous on the lower abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts. The colour of the ear-coverts varies somewhat according to locality. Birds from the Himalayas have them dark brown with the posterior portion rufous ; those from Assam, the hill-tracts of Bengal, and Upper Burma orange or rufous in some form or other; and Pegu and Tenasserim birds have them rufous but more or less intermingled with brown. The black throat occurs chiefly among birds from Assam, the hill-tracts of Bengal and Upper Burma. Hume is of opinion that the colour of the bill changes in the breeding-season. He states that in the cold season (November to February) the upper mandible
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