. Birds. Birds. 62 COEVIDiB. Jerdon remarks of P. flavirostris that he procured it in a pine wood and that it 'had partaken of seeds. It does not, however, appear to be the usual habit of these birds to eat seeds or to be found in forests. Key to the Species. a. Throat barred with black and white, bordered below by a hlaek band , P. Jlavir^ris, p. 63. h. Throat pale fulvous, with a few delicate arrow- head-shaped marks and no band below .... P. gidtaticoUis, p, 62. 51. Faradozornis flavirostris. The Yellow-hilled Crow-Tit. Paradoxornis flavirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 17 ; Sorsf. ^ M. Ca
. Birds. Birds. 62 COEVIDiB. Jerdon remarks of P. flavirostris that he procured it in a pine wood and that it 'had partaken of seeds. It does not, however, appear to be the usual habit of these birds to eat seeds or to be found in forests. Key to the Species. a. Throat barred with black and white, bordered below by a hlaek band , P. Jlavir^ris, p. 63. h. Throat pale fulvous, with a few delicate arrow- head-shaped marks and no band below .... P. gidtaticoUis, p, 62. 51. Faradozornis flavirostris. The Yellow-hilled Crow-Tit. Paradoxornis flavirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 17 ; Sorsf. ^ M. Cat. i, p. 376; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 4; J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 268, xlv, pt. ii, p. 72 ; Hume, S. F. ii. p. 467, v, p. SO; Cat. no. 373; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 496; Hume, 8. F. xi, p. 134. BathyrhynchuB brevirostris, McCleU. Ind. Bev. 1838, p. 513, fig. The Yellow-billed Finch-Thrush, Jerd. Coloration. Forehead, crest, nape, sides of neck, and hinder part of ear-coverts dull chestnut; lores black ; feathers round the eye and a patch under it white, the bases of the feathers more or less black ; anterior two thirds of ear-coverts and the point of the chin black ; cheeks and chin white barred with black; throat black ;. Fig. 22.—Head of P. flavirostris. upper plumage fulvons-browu, rufous on the tail and visible por- tions of wings ; lower plumage fulvous. Bill bright yellow ; legs plumbeous ; iris red-brown (Jerdon). Length about 7*5 ; tail 4-2; wing 3-5 ; tarsus 1-2; bill from gape -6. Distribution. Distributed throughout the Terais of Nepal, Sikhim, and Bhutan, and ranging as far as Dibrugarh in Assam. Found also in the Khasi hUls, Sylhet and Cachar in suitable localities, which appear to be thickets of reeds, 62. Paradoxornis guttaticoUis, Austen's Crow-Tit. Paradoxornis guttaticoUis, A. David, N. Arch. Mus. vii, Bull. p. 14 (1871); Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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