Supplementary Notes to ' The Birds of India.' 297 



Fern, mari pectore et gutture similis, aliter $ S. melanocephalce 

 similis est iridibus flavissimis. 



Hab. in valle Jordan! in hyeme. 



XXXVI. — Supplementary Notes to ' The Birds of India.' By T. 

 C. Jerdon, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Retired Deputy Inspector-General 

 of Hospitals, Madras*. 



[Continued from p. 139.] 



373. Paradoxornis flavirostris. 



I have recently found this curious bird rather common in 

 Assam and Sylhet, frequenting reeds and long grass in pre- 

 ference to tree-jungle. It is generally in pairs, and has a very 

 pleasing whistling call. It feeds chiefly on insects ; and I have 

 had it alive, caught by a very ingenious snare baited with a 

 winged white ant, which the goldsmiths of Assam use to catch 

 birds for their own food. One measured in the flesh 8| inches 

 long, extent 10, wing 34, tail 4, tarsus \\, foot nearly 1|. Bill 

 gamboge-yellow ; feet plumbeous green. 



374. Paradoxornis gularis. 



This species was obtained by Major Godwin-Austen in North 

 Cachar. Legs slaty green. 



376. Heteromorpha unicolor. 



Beavan states that he saw a small party of this bird hopping 

 about low shrubs and dwarf bamboos near the ground on Mount 

 Tongloo. I recently observed it myself in the same locality, 

 whence, indeed, I formerly had it through shikarees. 



377. Chleuasicus ruficeps. 



This is Paradoxornis sphenura of Hodgson, MS. 



378. SuTHORA NiPALENSis, Gould, B. Asia, pt. iv. pi. 9 (the 

 upper figure) . 



The flanks are bright rusty, and the thigh-coverts fulvous ; 

 bill dusky livid, pale at the base of the lower mandible. Extent 

 of wing 6 inches, wing 2. 



* [Dr. Jerdon gave us the MS. of this portion of his notes when pros- 

 trated with the attack of illness which ultimately proved fatal. In some 

 respects it was incomplete ; but the omissions have been supplied by Lord 

 Walden, to whom we submitted the MS. and the proof. — Ed.] 



