SUTHORA BRUNNEA, Anderson. 



Anderson's Suthora. 



Suthora brunnea, Anderson, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 211.— Swinhoe, /. c. p. 373. 



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The genus Suthora may be divided into two very distinct sections, in the first of which may be placed all 

 those whose plumage is particoloured and their chins black; while the second section would contain those 

 of more uniform plumage, with the throat and chest of the same colour. I have already in the present 

 work, figured two species of the genus; and it will be seen that S. nipalemis belongs to the first, and 

 S. webbiana to the second section mentioned above. The bird which I now introduce to my readers is 

 allied to the last-named species and to S. alphonsiana of Verreaux ; but it differs from both in the absence 

 of rufous on the wing, as well as in the vinaceous colouring of the ear-coverts and sides of the neck. In 

 S. alphonsiana these parts are grey; and in S. webbiana they are pale fulvous brown, like the head. The 

 home of the present bird is the province of Yun-nan in Western China,, Here it was discovered by 

 Dr. John Anderson, the energetic Director of the India Museum at Calcutta, who has most obligingly lent 

 me one of the typical examples for the purpose of figuring in this work. 



The following is a description of the bird : — 



General colour of upper surface olive-brown ; the wings and tail uniform, the primaries externally 

 margined with fulvous ; the head and neck bright chestnut, including the ear-coverts ; cheeks and throat 

 pale vinous ; the feathers with tiny mesial streaks of rufous ; the rest of the under surface pale fulvous 

 washed with olive on the flanks ; under wing-coverts buffy-white ; the edge of the wing conspicuously 

 fulvous, the inner lining of the quills pale brown, edged with fulvous along the inner web, and rather 

 inclining to rufous on the secondaries. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0*35, wing 20, tail 2*6, tarsus 0'75. 



The figures in the Plate are of the size of life. 



