124 MMELIID/E. 



Above dull olive or pale earthy brown, paler on the upper tail coverts; wing 

 coverts and outer margin of primary coverts like the back ; outer edge of the 

 first three primaries and also of the secondaries rtifescent brown ; tail ashy, 

 the feathers washed with rufous along the sides of the shafts ; forehead creamy 

 white ; crown pale earthy or dull olive brown ; lores and feathers below the 

 eye the same but blackish brown at their bases ; sides of face and ear coverts 

 pale earthy brown ; under surface of body light ashy, the flanks washed with 

 olive brown ; axillaries and under wing coverts like the breast, the lower series 

 creamy buff. Bill dull orange ; legs slaty grey ; irides brown. 



Length. 10*5 to 1 1*5 inches ; wing 4*9 to 5 ; tail 4/9 ; tarsus 1*5. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, Nepaul and Sikkim. Jerdon, quoting Hodgson, 

 says it is a shy forester, adhering to the wilds and tenanting the skirts of forests, 

 where brushwood as well as trees abound. Food chiefly insects. Breeds in 

 Native Sikkim at an elevation of 10,000 feet. A nest sent to Mr. Hume 

 contained three eggs. It was a regular and perfect hemisphere both externally 

 and internally, compactly made of coarse grass and bamboo leaves, and lined 

 on the inside with stiff and fine grass stems. According to Mr. Hume the egg 

 is a regular moderately elongated oval, slightly compressed towards the smaller 

 end. Ground colour dull white, sparsely blotched, streaked, and smudged 

 with pale yellowish brown. Sizei'ii x o'8. 



Gen. Sllthora Hodgson. 



Bill shorter than in Conostoma, stout and nearly as high as wide ; culmen 

 turned and much rounded ; nostrils concealed by plumes ; wing short, round- 

 ed, 6th quill the longest ; tail long, graduated ; tarsus long and smooth; outer 

 toe longer than the inner. 



587. Suthora Humil Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 487. Tem- 

 norhis v. pictifrons, Hodgs., Icon. ined. in Br. Mus. Passeres, pi. 65. Suthora 

 nipalensis(//0/j Bodgs.), Gould, B. Asia part iv. Suthora poliotis (non Blyth), 

 Horsf. and Moore, Cat. B. E. L Co. Mus. i. p. 370; Jerd., B. Lid. ii. p. 9; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 95. The ORANGE-EARED TIT-THRUSH. 



Above yellowish brown, paler on the head, but brighter and inclining to 

 orange brown on the rump and upper tail coverts ; tail feathers brown, 

 margined with chestnut, deeper and more conspicuous near the base ; wing 

 coverts like the back, the outer greater coverts externally shaded with grey, the 

 primary coverts black ; quills blackish, externally golden chestnut, the outer 

 primaries edged with white ; over the eye a broad black band drawn from the 

 biH to the sides of the occiput; feathers at base of bill and cheeks white, 

 extending above and below the eye ; ear coverts bright orange, surrounded by 

 a w.ash of light ashy grey on the sides of the neck ; throat blackish, the 

 feathers edged with white ; rest of under surface buffy white, the sides of 

 the body tawny buff as well as the thighs and under tail coverts. Bill blackish ; 

 legs fleshy. (Sharpe.) 



