286 TURDID/E. 



Length. 6 to 6' $ inches ; wing 1-9 to 2 ; tail 3*5 ; bill at front 0*5. 



Jlab. Throughout India to Nepaul and Cashmere, Ceylon and British 

 Burmah. Common in the Deccan, Concan, Kutch, Kattiawar and North 

 Guzerat, also the Punjab, N. W. Provinces, fc)udh, Bengal, and Central India. 

 In Sind it is common' in all the open country studded with trees, and affects 

 the acacias chiefly. Breeds in July and August. Eggs, 2 to 4, white, spotted 

 with reddish brown, thicker and closer at the larger end. Nest made of leaves, 

 stitched with cotton or fibre, and lined with wob'l a*nd cotton. 



Gen. Orthotomus?.//*/". 



General characters of SUtoria. Middle tail feathers not elongated beyond 

 the rest. 



347- OrthotomUS atrigUlariS, Tern. PL Col. li-<r. 101 ; Moore, 

 P. Z. S. 1854, p. 78; Sharpe, Ibis., 1877, pp. 16, 113; Hume and Dav., 

 Str. F. vi. p. 345 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 101 ; Dates, Sir. F. x. p. 219. 

 Orthotomus flaviviridis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 70; Wald. in Blytli, B. 

 Burm. p. I2l. OrthotomUS nitidus, Runic, Str. F. ii. pp. 478, 507; iii. 

 p. 525. The BLACK-NECKED' TAILOR BIRD. 



Lores and whole top of the head from, the nostrils to the nape bright chest- 

 nut ; ear coverts rufous white ; chin, throat and cheeks dull white, the black 

 bases of the feathers showing through a good deal ; under side of neck black, 

 with a few narrow broken white bars ; breast, abdomen and vent white ; under 

 tail coverts bright yellow ,- flanks white, suffused with yellow ; back, scapulars, 

 rump and upper tail coverts yellowish green, brighter on the latter ; tail brown, 

 edged externally with yellowish green j- under surface of tail yellowish ; under 

 wing coverts pale yellow^ edge of wing bright yellow ; quills brown, margined 

 externally with bright greenish yellow ; the wing coverts brown, margined on 

 both webs with greenish yellow ; thighs yellowish tawny. 



The female is like the male; but has no black on the throat, and the yellow on 

 the edge of the wing is duller ; generally the tail feathers show a distinct 

 subterminal bar of blackish brown, which is scarcely visible in the males. Bill 

 pale brown above, the lower maridible and gape flesh colour j irides orange 

 brown ; eyelids plumbeous ; legs flesh colour. 



Length. 4'5 inches ; tail r6 j wing r8 ; tarsus 0-8 ; bill from gape 07 . 

 culmen 0*6. 



Hab. Borneo and Sumatra, extending throughout the Malay Peninsula to 

 British Burmah and to Eastern Bengal. 



The Black-necked Tailor Bird is common in Southern Pegu, from Rangoon 

 to up the Valley of the Pegu River. Mr. Davison found it in Tenasserim, and 

 Colonel Godwin-Austen procured it in the hill tracts of Eastern Bengal. It 



