PARADOXORNIS. 105 
some 4,000 feet lower. It is found in small companies, scrambling 
and climbing about bamboos, reeds and high grass, hunting for 
insects, on which it chiefly feeds. Its flight is weak and fluttering 
and its call is a loud bleat. 
Genus PARADOXORNIS Gould, 1836. 
The genus Paradoxornis, as restricted by Oates, contains only 
three species, two of which are found in India and Burma and 
a third heudet in Eastern China. Paradowornis differs from 
Conostoma in having the feathers of the tail more graduated and 
the bill shorter and much deeper. The cutting-edge of the upper 
mandible has a deep sigmoid curve with a corresponding sinuation 
in the lower. The plumage is very lax and full, the wing short 
and rounded, the 4th, 5th, and 6th quills being subequal. 
Key to Species. 
A. Throat barred black and white, bordered 
belowewathia black band ...3¢5...2:4.-- P. flavirostris, p. 105. 
5B. Throat pale fulvous with black arrow-head 
marines andno band i: .........5.22.: P. guttaticollis, p. 106. 
Fig. 22.—Head of P. flavirostris. 
(90) Paradoxornis flavirostris. 
Goutp’s Parrot-BiLh 
Paradoxornis flavivostris Gould, P.Z.8., iv, p. 17 (1836) (Nepal) ; 
Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 62. 
Vernacular names. Dao mougasha gadeba (Cachari); But-but 
Sorat (Plains Miri). 
Description. Forehead, nape, sides of neck and hinder parts of 
ear-coverts dull chestnut ; lores black; feathers round the eye 
and a patch under it w hite, the bases of the feathers more or less 
black ; anterior two-thirds of ear-coverts and the point of the chin 
black ; cheeks and chin white barred with black; throat black; 
upper plumage fulvous-brown, rufous on the tail and visible por- 
tion of wings ; lower plumage fulvous. 
