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and below the eye and a small indistinct eyebrow white ; sides of 

 the neck slaty-blue ; chin and upper throat black margined with 

 white ; lower throat, breast, and centre of abdomen white ; sides 

 of body, vent, and under tail-coverts orange-fulvous. 



Length about 4-5; tail 2 - 4 ; wing 1-9; tarsus "65; bill from 

 gape $. 



This is the bird described by Jerdon under the name of 8. 

 nipalensis, Hodgs., " with ear-coverts fulvous." It is, however, a 

 very different bird to true S. nepalensis described below. The 

 present species was known to Hodgson and was figured by him 

 from Darjiling specimens. He appears, however, to have re- 

 garded it as identical with S. poliotis, a species described by Blyth 

 a short time previously from Cherra Poonjee, and he consequently 

 published no description of it, merely writing under the drawing 

 Temnoris v. Suthora pictifrons. As this name was never published, 

 Sharpe has very properly renamed the bird in his ' Catalogue.' 



Distribution. Sikhim, where this species appears to be common 

 at and above Darjiling. 



55. Suthora nepalensis. The Ash-eared Crow-Tit. 



Suthora nipalensis, Hodys. 2nd, Rev. ii, p. 32 (1838) ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. 



i, p. 378 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 488. 

 Temnoris atrifrons, Hodys. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 31. 

 Suthora poliotis, BL apud Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 9 j Hume, Cat. no. 379. 

 The Ash-eared Tit- Thrush, Jerd. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape smoky-grey ; a very broad 

 black supercilium from forehead to nape ; lores, round the eye, and 

 a short broad eyebrow white ; remainder of the side of the head 

 slaty-blue ; upper plumage and wing-coverts orange-brown ; pri- 

 mary-coverts black ; primaries with hoary outer webs, tinged with 

 chestnut at base ; the other quills chiefly chestnut on the outer 

 webs and tipped white on both webs ; tail chestnut, broadly tipped 

 blackish ; point of the chin black ; throat rusty, with black bars 

 showing through ; lower plumage orange-fulvous. 



Length about 4'3 ; tail 2-3 ; wing 1-9 ; tarsus -65 ; bill from 

 gape -25. 



This is the bird described by Jerdon under the name of S. poliotis, 

 Blyth, with the lower plumage uniform rusty and the chin barred 

 with black and rust colour. It is figured by Hodgson. The true 

 S. poliotis is a distinct bird, differing among other things in having 

 the lower plumage grey and the throat entirely black. 



Distribution. Nepal, where this Crow-Tit appears to have been 

 very little observed, the only specimens of it that I have been able to 

 examine being four skins in the Hodgson Collection in the British 

 Museum. 



56. Suthora poliotis. The Ashy -breasted Crow-Tit. 



Suthora poliotis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xx, p. 522 (1851) ; Sharpe, Cat. 



B. M. vii, p. 487. 

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