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colour ; eyelids and mouth bluish ; legs plumbeous ; claws horn.- 

 colour. 



Length about 7'5 inches; tail 3'5; wing 3'5; tarsus 1-15; bill 

 from gape *6. 



Specimens from Assam, Karennee, and Tenasseriin have the 

 lower plumage suffused with fulvous. 



Distribution. Sikhim and Bhutan, extending through Assam to 

 Dibrugarh. This bird has also been procured at Shillong ; on the 

 Hemeo Peak, N. Cachar, and in Karennee at 2500 ft. Blyth 

 received it from Arrakan. Davison met with it at Pahpoon in 

 Tenasserim, and there is a specimen in the Hume Collection col- 

 lected at Thoungyah, much further south. Jerdon states that this 

 species occurs in Nepal, but on what authority is not known. 



Habits, fyc. Breeds in Sikhim in May, constructing a cup-shaped 

 nest of grass-stalks coated externally with a few cobwebs and lined 

 inside with strips of bamboo-stems. The eggs, three in number, 

 are white, spotted and blotched with yellowish brown, with some 

 purplish-grey shell-marks; size -83 by -63. 



61. Scaeorhynchus gularis. The Hoary-headed Crow-Tit. 



Pavacloxornis gularis, Horsf., Gray, Gen. B. ii, p. 389, pi. xciv, f. 2 



(1849) ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 377 ; Jerd. B.I. ii, p. 5 ; Godw.-Autt. 



J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 103 ; Wald. in Blyth, B. Burm. p. 117 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 374 ; Gates, B. B. i, p. 131. 

 Paradoxornis (Heteroinorpha) caniceps. Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii. 



p. 810 (1849). 



Ileteromorpha (? Paradoxornis) caniceps (BlytJi), Blyth, Cat. p. 102. 

 Suthora gularis (Blyth}, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 492. 

 Scaeorhynchus gularis (Horsf.), Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, 



p. 44. 

 The Hoary-headed Finch- Thrush, Jerd. ; Chongto-pliep-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Forehead, nasal plumes, a supercilium from the fore- 

 head to the nape and the chin black ; lores and round the eye, 

 cheeks and lower plumage white, the sides of the breast and abdo- 

 men washed with fulvous ; ear-coverts pale grey ; crown and nape 

 dark grey ; upper plumage, tail, and visible portions of wings 

 rufous-brown. 



Bill dark yellow; legs slaty-brown (Godwin- Austen). 



Length about 6 ; tail 3*1 ; wing 3*5 ; tarsus 1 ; bill from gape *6. 



Distribution. Occurs in Sikhina and Bhutan at elevations of from 

 3000 to 8000 feet. It has also been obtained at Asalu in the 

 Khasi Hills by G-od win-Austen, and in Karennee at 5GOO feet by 

 AVardlaw Ramsay. It extends into China. 



Habits, Sfc. The nest and eggs of this species, judging from what 

 little is on record about them, closely resemble those of Sc. ruficeps. 

 The eggs measure -82 by -61. 



