PABADOXOKNIS. 



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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 Gates, contains only 

 three species, two of which are found in India and Burma and 

 a third heudei in Eastern China. Paradoxornis 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 lo Species. 



A. Throat barred black and white, bordered 



below with a black band P.Jlavirostris, p. 105. 



B. Throat pale fulvous with black arrow-head 



markings and no band P. ffuttaticollts, p. 106. 



Fig. 22. Head of P. flavirostris. 



(90) Paradoxornis flavirostris. 



GOULD'S PARKOT-BILL. 



Paradoxornis Jtavirottris Gould, P. Z. S., iv, p. 17 (1836) (Nepal); 

 Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 62. 



Vernacular names. Dao mougasha gadeba (Cachari); But-but 

 Sorai (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 white, 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. 



