CULIA. 329 
Habits. This bird is found in the cold weather in small parties 
of half-a-dozen or so wandering about in the lower growth in 
forests and scrub but not frequenting the higher trees unless 
frightened into them. They are cheerful little birds, constantly 
chatting to one another and, in the Khasia Hills, very bold and 
confiding, though they are said elsewhere to be shy birds. In the 
breeding season, however, when they break up into pairs they are 
much shyer and quieter, though the male may often be seen 
perched on some bramble, quivering his wings and fluffing out his 
teathers as he trills his pretty little love-song to his mate near by. 
~ (852) Liothrix lutea yunnanensis. 
Tope Yunnan ReEp-pintep Liornrix. 
Liothrix lutea yunnanensis Rothschild, Nov. Zool., xxviii, p.86(1921) 
(Shweli-Salwin Divide). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. ‘‘ Differs from Z. /. calipyqus in its larger size, more 
sharply defined yellowish head and in the fact that of eight speci- 
mens six have the red or yellow on the 7th, 8th and 9th primaries 
broadly interrupted, while the whole eight have this colour on the 
first secondary interrupted or entirely absent, while in the other 
two species it is never broken or it is entirely black.” 
Colours of soft parts. “Iris brown: bill orange-red summer, 
scarlet with black base winter; legs and feet dark brown.” 
Measurements. “ Wing ¢ 72to 76 mm.; 2 66 mm.” (Rothschild). 
Distribution. Yunnan west to the Kachin Hills. Birds ob- 
tained in Bhamo by Harington seem referable to this race. 
Nidification and Habits. Similar to those of the last bird. 
Genus CUTIA Hodgson, 1836, 
The genus Cutia contains but one species, a very handsome bird 
remarkable for the great development of the upper tail-coverts, 
which reach nearly to the tip of the tail. In Cutia the bill is rather 
slender, curved, notched and pointed and slightly longer than half 
the length of the head; the rictal bristles are very short; the nostrils 
longitudinal and covered by a membrane and the frontal bristles 
are short and firm. The tail is about two-thirds the length of the 
wing and slightly rounded. 
(353) Cutia nipalensis nipalensis. 
THe Nepat Curt, 
Vernacular names. Khatya (Nepal); Rapnoon or Rapnun-pho 
(Lepcha). 
