34. STTTHORA. 487 



b. Size larger: vring 3'3-3'6 inches. 



c'. Head not of the same colour as the hack ; be- 

 low white. 

 e". Head bright rufous, as also the cheeks ; no 



black eyebrow ; no black on chin rufic^s, p. 491. 



/". Head clear gi'ej,the cheeks paler ; a distinct 



black superciliary streak ; chin black .... gularis, p. 492. 

 d'. Head of the same colour as the back ; below 



vinous brown unicolor, p. 493. 



1. Suthora hnmii. 



Temnorhis v. Suthora pictifrons, Hodgs. Icon. hied, in Brit. Mu^., 



Passeres, App. pi. 65 (no. 918). 

 Suthora nipalensis (non Hodgs.'), Gould, B. Asia, part iv. (1852, two 



lower fgures). 

 Suthora poUotis (non Bli/th), Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. 



i. p. 379 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. li. p. 9 (1863) ; Grmj, Hand4. B. 



i. p. 235, no. 3403 (1809) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 95. 



Adult. General colour above yellowish brown, paler on the head, 

 but brighter and inclining to orange-brown on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts ; tail-feathers brown margined with chestnut, deeper 

 and more conspicuous near the base ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 the outer greater coverts externally shaded with grey, the primary- 

 coverts black ; quills blackish, externally golden chestnut, the outer 

 primaries edged with white : over the ej^e a broad black band 

 drawn from the bill to the sides of the occiput ; feathers at base of 

 bill aud cheeks white, extending above and below the eye ; ear- 

 coverts bright orange, surrounded by a wash of light ashy grey on 

 the sides of the neck : throat blackish, the feathers edged with 

 white ; rest of under surface bnfiS- white ; the sides of the body 

 tawny buiF, as well as the thighs and under tail-coverts ; under 

 wing-coverts white, as also the inner margins of the quills ; " bill 

 blackish ; legs tleshy ' (Jerdon). Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 

 0-35, wing 1*75, tail 2, tarsus 0-75. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas. 



a, b, e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



d, e, /, (/. Ad. sk. Nepal (Ifct/^sow). India Museum. 



h. Ad. sk. Sikhim. Major J. Biddulph. 



t. Ad. sk. Sikhim. H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould Collection. 



2. Suthora poliotis. 



Suthora poliotis, Blgth, J. A. S. Beng. xx. p. 522 (1851 )^_ 

 Suthora munipurensis, Godwin-Aust. S)- W(dd. Ibis, 1875, p. 250; 



Gould. B. Asia, part- xxix. (1877) ; Hume, Str. F. 1876, p. 216 ; 



id. Str. F. 1879, p. 95. 

 Suthora dafiaensis, Godicin-Aust. Ann. <§■ Mag. Xat. Htst. (4) xvii. 



p. 32 (1876) ; id. J. A. S. Beng. xlvi. pt. 2, p. 76, pi. iii (1876) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1876, p. 489, 1877, p. 138 : Godicin-Austm, J. A. S. 



Beng. xlvii. p. 15 (1878). 



Adult male. Similar to S. Jiumii, but distinguished at a glance 



