62 



Jerdon remarks of P. flavirostris that he procured it in a pine 

 wood and that it had partaken of seeds. It does not, however, 

 appear to be the usual habit of these birds to eat seeds or to be 

 found in forests. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat barred with black and white, bordered 



below by a black band P. Jlavirostris, p. 62. 



b. Throat pale fulvous, with a few delicate arrow- 



head-shaped marks and no band below .... P. yuttaticollis, p. 62. 



51. Paradoxornis flavirostris. The Yellow-bitted Croiu-Tit. 



Paradoxornis flavirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 17 ; Horsf. # M. 

 Cat. i, p. 376 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 4 ; Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, 

 pt. ii, p. 268, xlv, pt. ii, p. 72 ; Hume, S. F. ii. p. 457, v, p. 30; Cat. 

 no. 373 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 496 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 134. 



Bathyrhynchus brevirostris, McClell. Ind. Ren. 1838, p. 513, fig. 



The Yellow-billed Finch-Thrush, Jerd. 



Coloration. Forehead, crest, nape, sides of neck, and hinder part 

 of ear-coverts dull chestnut ; ]ores 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 ; 



Fig. 22. Head of P. flavirostris. 



upper plumage fulvous-brown, rufous on the tail and visible por- 

 tions of wings ; lower plumage fulvous. 



Bill bright yellow ; legs plumbeous ; iris red-brown (Jerdon}. 



Length about 7*5 ; tail 4-2 ; wing 3-5 ; tarsus 1-2 ; bill from 

 gape -6. 



Distribution. Distributed throughout the Terais of Nepal, Sikhim, 

 and Bhutan, and ranging as far as Dibrugarh in Assam. Found 

 also in the Khasi hills, Sylhet and Cachar in suitable localities, 

 which appear to be thickets of reeds. 



t>2. Paradoxornis guttaticollis. Austen's Crow-Tit. 



Paradoxornis guttaticollis, A. Daricl, N. Arch. Mus. vii, Bull. p. 14 

 (1871) ; SJiarpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 497. 



