112 PAEADOXOKNITHII)^. 



olive-brown ; the primaries edged externally with white, the 

 secondaries and tertiaries broadly edged with bright orange- 

 brown ; the priniary-coverts brown, forming a conspicuous patcli 

 on the upper portion of the wing ; tail brown, the outer edges of 

 the feathers bright rufous-brown for three-fourths of their length 

 from the base ; lores, cheeks and a long supercilium white ; the 

 white of the cheeks extending on to the sides of the neck ; ear- 

 covei'ts brown ; chin and throat black, shading into grey on the 

 upper breast; abdomen and under tail-coverts bright orange- 

 brown. 



" Upper mandibli^ horny, lower fleshy-yellow ; legs and feet 

 fleshy-brown. Length about 4" (100 mm.), wing 1-8" (45 mm.), 

 tail 1-9" (48 mm.), bill 0-3" (7 mm.), tarsus 0-9" (22-8 mm.)." 

 (Binr/Jiam.) 



Bingliam's Sulhora is only a race of (/ularis {verreanxi Sharpe, 

 Cat. B.M.), differing from that bird in having the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts orange-brox^n instead of white. 



Distribution. Mekong water-shed, Kentung State, 81ian Hills. 



Nidification unknown. 



Habits. This little Suthora is evidently a bird of very high 

 elevations, only having been iound by Bingham at 8,500 feet. 



(99) Suthora webbiana brunnea. 



Andekson's Suthora. 



Suthora brunnea Anderson, P. Z. S., 1871, p. 211 (Yunnan) ; Elanf. 

 & Gates, i, p. 68, footnote. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description, Tlio whole head and neck all round with the 

 breast chestnut-brown, suffused with vinaceous below : the upper 

 plumage, wing-coverts, tail and exposed parts of closed wing 

 olive-brown; lower plumage yellowish brown. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris deep red ; bill yellow horny, pale 

 except on the culmen ; legs greenish plumbeous or slaty brown. 



Measurements. Total length about 125 to 130 mm.; wing 51 to 

 54 mm.; tail about 00 to Qb mm. ; tarsus about 20mm.; culmen 

 about 7 mm. 



Distribution. Tunnan and the Kachin Hills from Bhamo east- 

 wards. 



Nidification. This bird has been found breeding commonly in 

 Sinluin-Kaba, Bhamo District, at an elevation of some 6,000 feet. 

 Hax'ington describes the nest as " a rather deep cup-shaped 

 structure composed of bamboo-leaves and coarse blades of grasf-, 



