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PARADOXORNIS UNICOLOR, Hodgs. 



Long-tailed Paradoxornis. 



Heteromorpha micolor, Hodgs. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xii. p. 448, with a figure.— Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84.— 



Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xiv. p. 578. 

 Paradowornis unicolor, Hodgs. Cat. of Birds of Nepal, p. 111.— Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. iii. App. p. 18. 



— Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. p. 500, Paradoxornis, sp. 3.— Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. East Ind. Comp. 



Mr. Hodgson, who has contributed so largely to our knowledge of the ornithology of Nepaul, is the 

 discoverer and describer of this new species of Paradowornis, which he considered to be distinct from the 

 type of the genus, and for which he therefore proposed the term Heteromorpha: it is true that the bill is 

 not so deep, is less flattened on the sides, and has straighter tomise, and that the plumage is more lax and 

 loose in its texture ; still the bird, in its general aspect, in the form of its wing, and in its large feet, is truly 

 a Paradowornis ; I am therefore induced to regard the differences above mentioned rather as specific than 

 generic. 



Mr. Hodgson states that it " inhabits the thick brushwood of the Cachar of Nepaul ; frequently alights on 

 the ground, but seems to feed aloft on wood bugs and other hard tree-insects ; occurs in small flocks, and 

 is not noisy." 



Judging from the other species, we may infer that there is no difference in the colouring of the sexes. 



Specimens of this rare bird are contained in the collection at the British Museum and in that at the East 

 India House, 



All the upper surface, wings and tail rufous brown ; the feathers of the forehead and face edged with 

 grey ; breast greyish brown, passing into pale rufous brown on the abdomen ; under side of the shafts of 

 the tail-feathers yellowish ; bill orange^yellow ; feet greenish. 



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