SUTHORA. 109: 
Distribution. The higher regions of Nepal and Sikkim ; Jerdon 
obtained it at 10,000 feet near Darjeeling and Blanford in the 
Lachung Valley between 7,000 and 8,000 feet elevation. It extends 
‘to the mountains which lie between China and Tibet. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
(93) Suthora nepalensis, 
Tur ASHY-EARED SuTHORA. 
Suthora nepalensis Hodgs., Ind. Rev., ii, p. 82 (1838) (Nepal); Blanf. 
& Oates, i, p. 65. 
Vernacular names. Suthora (Nepal). 
Description. Forehead, crown and nape smoky grey; a very 
broad black supercilium from forehead to nape; lores, round the 
eye, and a short broad eyebrow white; remainder of the side of 
the head slaty blue; upper plumage and wing-coverts orange- 
brown; primary-coverts black ; primaries with hoary outer webs, 
tinged with chestnut at base; the outer quills chiefly chestnut on the 
outer webs and tipped with white on both webs; tail chestnut 
broadly tipped with blackish ; point of the chin black ; throat rusty, 
with black bars showing through ; lower plumage orange-fulvous. 
Colours of soft parts. Not recorded. 
Measurements. Total length about 110mm.; wing 47 to 49mm.; 
tail about 55 to 58 mm.; tarsus about 16 to 16°5 mm.; culmen 
about 5 mm. 
Distribution. Nepal only. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing known. 
(94) Suthora poliotis poliotis. 
Buyta’s SurwHora. 
Suthora polotis Blyth, J. A.S.B., xx, p. 522 (1851) (Cherrapanji, 
Khasia Hills); Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 65. 
Vernacular names. Dao mougasha kashiba (Cachari). 
Description. Upper plumage bright orange-brown; a broad 
black supercilium extending to the nape and a narrow white line 
below it; lores, cheeks and under the eye white ; ear-coverts and 
sides of the neck slaty-blue ; a streak of fulvous behind the eye 
and over the front part of the ear-coverts; chin and throat 
black; lower plumage bluish grey, becoming whitish on the 
abdomen and under tail-coverts ; primary-coverts black ; primaries 
with hoary outer webs, tinged with chestnut at the base; the 
outer quills chiefly chestnut on the outer webs and tipped with 
white; tail chestnut broadly tipped with blackish. 
