SUTHORA. Niles 
lined with finer grass and a few horse-hairs; measuring about 
4" x 33" outside and 2x 2” inside.’ The nests were all 
extremely well concealed and were only discovered by carefully 
watching the birds. They were placed in clumps of reeds or 
grass, or in thick bushes and tangles of creepers, in each case 
quite low down, less than three feet from the ground. 
The eggs number 2 to 4, the former number having been taken 
much incubated, but 3 is the usual full clutch. In colour they 
are a ratherdeep, unspotted hedge-sparrows’ egg-blue and in shape 
broad ovals, very little compressed at the smaller end. Twenty- 
four eggs average 16°3 x 12:8 mm. 
The breeding season is from the end of April to early June. 
Habits. Anderson’s Suthora keeps principally to reed and 
grass cover, where they creep about but seldom fly. As they 
hunt for insects they keep up a continuous twittering, and they 
are more often heard than seen. 
(100) Suthora fulvifrons fulvifrons. 
THe FULYOUS-FRONTED SUTHORA. 
Temnoris fulvifrons Hodgs., P, Z.S., xiii, p. 31 (1845) (Nepal). 
Suthora fulvifrons. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 66. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. }'orehead, middle portion of the crown,a very short 
supercilium, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, sides of the neck and the 
under tail-coverts bright fulvous; a broad band from the lores 
over the eye to the nape, the back, ramp and lesser wing-coverts 
olive-yellow; upper tail-coverts fuivous; greater wing-coverts 
edged with chestnut ; quills with the outer webs chestnut, hoary 
on the basal halves of the primaries ; tail blackish, the outer webs 
more or less bright chestnut except at the tips; abdomen deep 
orey. 
Colours of soft parts. Irides brown; bill pale fleshy yellow, 
horny above; legs fleshy brown. 
Measurements. Total Jength about 150 mm.; wing about 
54 to56 mm.; tail about 66 mm.; culmen about 5mm.; tarsus 
about 20 to 22 mm. 
Distribution. Nepal and Sikkim. 
Nidification and Habits. Practically nothing known. Masson 
found it breeding on the Singlo Ridge about 8,500 feet, but failed 
to find the nest. This was in May. It probably keeps to high 
elevations and dense forest in which it is not easily observed. 
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