8 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



longest ; tail rather long, graduated, feeble ; tarsus long, smooth ; 

 toes short ; nails compressed and acute, hind toe stout ; outer toe 

 slightly longer than the inner. 



This remarkable group of small birds cannot, I think, be sepa- 

 rated from the last series, as is done by Gray and others, for they 

 are distinctly connected to Faradoxurnis by Chleuasicus. Gray, 

 Horsfield, and BWth, however, agree in placing them among the 

 Parince, near the long-tailed Tit-mouse and Panuras biarmicus, as 

 does Hodgson, though he asserts their relationship with Heteromor- 

 j)ha, &c. But it appears to me questionable if the bearded 

 Tit-mouse really belongs to the ParincE, for it differs from them 

 by its short wings, large legs and feet, short tumid bill, and 

 dense plumage ; and, in these points, certainly agrees with 

 Sathora. Bonaparte, indeed, in his Conspectus, placed ISuthora 

 among his Leiotricliince, with Paradoxornis and Conostoma. 



378. Buthora nipalensis, Hodgson. 



Ind. Rev. 2, p. 32— Blyth, Cat. 530— Horsf., Cat. 613.— 

 Temnoris atrifrons, Hodgs., P. Z. S., 1845 — Gould, Birds of 

 Asia, pi. upper figure — Suthora, Nipal. 



The Black-fronted Tit-Thrush. 



Descr. — Crown bright fulvous, passing to duller fulvous on the 

 back ; forehead, and a broad streak over the eyes to the nape, 

 black ; lores and sides of the face, with the plumes growing from 

 the base of the low^er mandible, pure white ; ear-coverts, and a 

 spot behind the eye, below the black streak, bright fulvous ; below 

 the ear-coverts, and the sides of the neck, pure ash, paler on the 

 breast, and passing to white on tlie abdomen ; chin and throat 

 black, with whitish margins ; wings dark brown, the first two or 

 three quills edged with Avhite, the next two or three with rufous, 

 and the remainder edged throughout their entire length with the 

 same colour, but of a deeper hue ; tail bright ciianamon brown, 

 edged externally Avith rufous ; the inner webs dusky. 



Bill black, bluish at the base ; legs fleshy white ; irides brown. 

 Length 4;^ inches; Aving 2 ; tail 2;^; bill :^ •, tarsus |. 



