112 PARA DOXORNITHID &%. 
olive-brown; the primaries edged externally with white, the 
secondaries and tertiaries broadly edged with bright orange- 
brown; the primary-coverts brown, forming a conspicuous patch 
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- 
coverts brown ; chin and throat black, shading into grey on the 
upper breast; abdomen and under tail-coverts bright orange- 
brown. 
‘‘Upper mandible 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.).” 
(Bingham. ) 
Bingham’s Suthora is only a race of gularis (verreauai Sharpe, 
Cat. B.M.), differing from that bird in having the abdomen and 
under tail-coverts orange-brown instead of white. 
Distribution. Mekong water-shed, Kentung State, Shan Hills. 
Nidification unknown. 
Habits. Mhis little Suthora is evidently a bird of very high 
elevations, only having been found by Bingham at 8,500 feet. 
(99) Suthora webbiana brunnea. 
ANDERSON’S SUTHORA. 
Suthora brunnea Anderson, P.Z.8., 1871, p. 211 (Yunnan); Blanf. 
& Oates, i, p. 68, footnote. 
Vernacular names. None recorded, 
Description. The 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 130mm.; wing 51 to 
54 mm.; tail about 60 to 65 mm.; tarsus about 20mm.; culmen 
about 7 mm. 
Distribution. Yunnan and the Kachin Hills from Bhamo east- 
wards. 
Nidification. This bird has been found breeding commonly in 
Sinlum-Kaba, Bhamo District, at an elevation of some 6,000 feet. 
Harington describes the nest as “a rather deep cup-shaped 
structure composed of bamboo-leaves and coarse blades of grass, 
