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ILdiits, etc. Tliis bird is a winter visitor to i3angkokr and is to- 

 be found here from October to nearly the middle of Ma}' — being one 

 of the last of our cold weather visitants to depart. 1 have generally 

 observed it on trees and bushes near our rush-gfrown canals and road- 

 side ditches, but it is apparently not entirely arboreal in its habits, as 

 1 have several tunes seen it hopping about on the ground. It is, 

 I believe, strictly insectivorous in its diet. 



The note of this bird is a loud and harsh chik-clcnk (not unlike 

 the sound produced by a pair of gardener's shears), intersj^ersed with a- 

 iiarsh Ixf-r-r or ch/r-r-r. 



DMrihuUo]i. This bird does not appeai' to have been previously 



recorded from Siam, and' 1 have only met with it, in Bangkok, in the 



neighbourhood of Klilong Sathwi and Ivhlong Te-i, though it is 



doubtless to be found in suitable localities in other parts of the 



suburbs. 



^13 (371). Orthotomus sutoriiis. The Indian Tailor- 



hird. 



Siamese, i^n nrr^uni:;!^ ( >Tok kraehib krasai). 



Doscrlptioii. Ijength, about 120 mm. ( 4.75 in. ), except in 

 Pummei-, which is the breeding season, when the male i's found with 

 the centre pair of tail feathers longer than- at other times of the j'^ear 

 hy 51 nnn. ( 2 in. ), or more. Forehead and up to the middle of the 

 crown, rufous — -shading off on the remainder of the crown and iiape 

 into tile yellowish-green of the rest of the upper plumage. Lowei" 

 plumage, dull white, dusky on the sides of the body,, and with a faint 

 rufous tinge on the abdomen ; thighs, deeper rufous. 



li'is and eyelid, yellowish browui to reddish j^ellow. Bill^ 

 dark horny above,, pale flesh-colour below. i^egs,. reddish flesh- 

 colour. 



IfaJiiU, I'tc. The Indian Tailor-bird is one of our permanent 



residents, and is to be found in every garden in Bangkok. It is a 

 familiar and active little biivl, continually on the move, hopping about 

 low trees, bushes, etc., searching for the suiall insects on which it feeds,, 

 and it frequently enters the verandahs of houses for the same purpose. 

 Its note, which is a surprisingly loud one for so small a bird, is a 

 vibrant and }x'neti'ating rkla-clila-chia rej)eated times without number. 



