214 DRYMOICIN&. 
Sus-ramity, Drymoicine. 
Bill moderately long and compressed ; wings short, rounded ; 
tail long, more or less graduated ; legs and feet moderately strong. 
Genvs, Orthotomus, Hors/field. 
Bill long, slender, rather wide at the base, nearly entire, 
straight, very slightly defiexed at the tip; a few weak rictal 
bristles ; wing short, feeble, much rounded; fifth and sixth quills 
equal and longest; tail narrow, feeble, typically short and 
rounded or graduated, the two centre feathers elongated in some ; 
tarsus moderately long, stout ; feet short ; hind-toe short ; claws 
moderately curved, compressed. 
Orthotomus sutorius, Forst. 
530.—Orthotomus longicauda, Gm.—ZJerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. II, p. 165 ; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, 
p. 479 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 406; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 151; Sutoria sutoria, Forst. ; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 126. 
THE InpIAN TAILoR Birp. 
Phutki, Hin. 
Length, g, 65; 9, 5; expanse, 5 to 6; wing, 19; tail, g 3:5, 
$ 2; tarsus, 0°9; bill at front, 0°5; bill at gape, 0°65. 
Bill dark horny above, pale-fleshy beneath ; irides reddish- 
yellow or amber ; legs fleshy. 
Crown rufous ; nape somewhat cinereous, with a tinge of rufous ; 
back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, yellowish olive- 
green; wings brown, edged with green ; tail narrow, light brown 
with a green tinge, and the outer feathers on each side with a 
narrow white tip; beneath white, with a concealed black spot on 
each side of the throat, formed by the bases of some of the 
feathers, and only seen at times. 
There are four dark-brown hairs arising from the nape, two 
on each side. 
The Tailor Bird is a common permanent resident throughout 
the district, breeding from the end of June to August. The 
nests are rather hard to find, although during the time the hen 
is sitting on the eggs, the cock keeps up a pleasant “tweet” 
“tweet” on a neighbouring bough, and though one knows that 
a nest is somewhere near at hand, it requires a careful and per- 
severing search to find it. 
When the bird chooses a leaf sufficiently large, it sews the 
opposite edges together, and in the cavity thus formed, it 
makes a soft nest of cotton, with a few hairs, just enough 
to keep it in shape; at times two or more leaves are incorpo- 
rated into the nest. They lay three (occasionally four) eggs of 
a rather elongated oval shape, pointed at one end, reddish-white 
in color, or, I should say, white, suffused with a reddish tinge, 
