. Birds .. . bird in being darker and morerichly coloured everywhere and in having a well-defined blackeyebrow. Colours of soft parts. Maxilla fleshy, the culmen and base alittle darker and becoming bluish next the forehead, lower mandiblepale fleshy, the gonys almost white; irides light bright brown;legs pale, clear bluish plumbeous, claws paler still. Measurements. Totallength 145tol50mm.; wing57to59mm.;tail about 99 mm.; culmen about 10 mm. and from gape about12 mm. Distribution. From Cachar to. Lakhimpur ii^ Assam, sonth ofthe Brahmaputra and east of the Dibong in the Abor and MiriHills, n
. Birds .. . bird in being darker and morerichly coloured everywhere and in having a well-defined blackeyebrow. Colours of soft parts. Maxilla fleshy, the culmen and base alittle darker and becoming bluish next the forehead, lower mandiblepale fleshy, the gonys almost white; irides light bright brown;legs pale, clear bluish plumbeous, claws paler still. Measurements. Totallength 145tol50mm.; wing57to59mm.;tail about 99 mm.; culmen about 10 mm. and from gape about12 mm. Distribution. From Cachar to. Lakhimpur ii^ Assam, sonth ofthe Brahmaputra and east of the Dibong in the Abor and MiriHills, north of. the same river and thence eastwards to Yunnanthrough the Shan States. Godwin-Austens birds from Baladhanwere undoubtedly of this and not the last race. Nidification. The only nest I have seen of this bird was anexact miniature of those of Paradoxornis and Psittiparus. Out-wardly it measured 2-5 x 3 deep and inwardly 2 x 2. It wascomposed of fine shreds of grass and reed-bark with a lining of PLATE SUTHORA R. Btack^browed Suthora. siu. % NHOBUTHOBA. 115 the finest grasses but, under these, were a few scraps of bambooleaves. It was bound together with cobwebs and placed in abamboo clump growing on a grass-covered hillside. The single egg contained in the nest was a pale hedge-sparrowblue and measured 195 x 162 mm. A nest with three eggs takenby a Naga were similar but the latter measured only about18-4 X 13-6 mm. Habits. An inveterate little skulker in long grass and scrubjangle, never taking to flight unless actually forced, but creepingin and out low down and out of sight, though its constanttwittering may be heard the whole time. They go about in largeparties numbering a dozen or more and, when they think theyare not being watched, every now and then one climbs to a tallgrass, chirps loudly and immediately descends again. They con-sort frequently with both Fsittiparus rufineps &aA. Paradoxomisand it is very carious to watch these three Ked-he
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