34. SUTHOEA. 489 



on the sides ; thighs fulvous ; centre of body white ; both upper 

 and under tail-coverts bright orange-chestnut ; tail ashj- brown, 

 deeper in colour at the tip, all the feathers distinctly edged with 

 orange-chestnut, especially near their bases ; wing-coverts resembling 

 the back, the greater series brown on the inner webs, the primary- 

 coverts black ; quills black, the primaries edged with white, near the 

 base with golden chestnut, the secondaries broadly edged with the lat- 

 ter colour, inclining to white near the tips : under wing-coverts and 

 edge of wing silky white, as well as the inner webs of all the quillls ; 

 " bill black, bluish at base ; legs bluish white ; iris brown " (Jerdon). 

 Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0*3, wing 1-8, tail 2-2, tarsus 0*7. 

 Hab. Nepal. 



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



(Type of species.) 



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



c. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



5. Suthora conspicillata. 



Suthora conspicillata, David, N. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull. p. 14 (1870), 

 vii. p. 9 (1871) ; id. ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 211 (1877). 



Adult. Upper part of the head and neck chestnut-brown, and not 

 yellow or reddish as in most of the other species ; round the eye a 

 ring of white feathers ; back, wing-coverts, and rump olive ; throat, 

 sides of neck, and breast of a very clear vinous brown, with some 

 longitudinal brown streaks on the feathers of the throat ; rest of the 

 lower parts olive-brown, a little clearer than the tint of the back ; 

 tail brownish grey ; quills brown, bordered with olive, and not with 

 cinnamon-rufous as in 6'. alphonsiana ; bill yellow ; feet brown ; 

 claws greyish ; iris brown. Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0'15, 

 wing 2-35, tail 3*15, tarsus 0-9. {David Sj- Oustnlet.) 



Hah. Frontiers of Kokonoor and in South Tsinling, China. 



6. Suthora alphonsiana. 



Suthora alphonsiana, Verr. N. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull. p. 35 (1870), vii. 

 p. 35 (1871) ; id. op. cit. viii. Bull. pi. v. fig. 4. (1872) ; David, op. 

 cit. vii. p. 8 {IQll) ; id. ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 210 (1877). 



Adult. Upper part of the head, nape, and external margin of the 

 quills cinnamon-rufous, darker on the latter ; remainder of the 

 upper parts olivaceous brown, slightly glossed with cinnamon-rufous, 

 excepting on the tail ; lores, sides of head, neck, and thorax grey 

 with a slight rosy tint, the ear-coverts with a slightly darker tint ; 

 remain dor of lower parts olive-rufous, passing into whitish on the 

 middle of the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and a part of the inner 

 web of the quills white washed with rose-colour ; bill yellowish ; 

 feet and claws clear brown ; iris ycUow. Total length 4-45 inches, 

 cxilmen 0-25, wing l-l».j, tail 1-95, tarsus U-8. {David 4' Oustalet.) 



Hah. Western China (Yunnan, Szechuen, and Kouy-tcheow). 



