THE INDIAN TAILOR-BIUD. 
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It has a wide range. It has been found in Central India and in the 
Eastern Bengal tracts. It occurs in the Indo-Burmese countries and in 
Java, but it is not known to inhabit any portion of the Malay peninsula. 
This large Warbler, as before remarked, is found only in large tracts of 
grass-land. It generally keeps in couples, and seldom moves away from 
the spot it selects for its feeding-ground. During the cold weather and 
up to the end of the breeding-season this bird has a fine song which it 
utters whilst flying from one patch of grass to another. In doing this it 
mounts about thirty or forty feet into the air, and comes down with 
motionless, outspread wings. It feeds on the ground principally. I have 
often found the nest in May, a structure made of coarse grasses and 
partially domed. It is placed in a tuft of grass near the ground. The 
eggs are usually four in number, and are white speckled with purplish 
brown. 
Genus SUTORIA, Nichols. 
107. SUTORIA SUTORIA. 
THE INDIAN TAILOR-BIED. 
Motacilla sutoria, Forst. Ind. Zool. p. 17. Motacilla longicauda, Gm. Syst. Nat, 
i. p. 954. Orthotomus longicauda, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1854, p. 81 ; Jerd. B. Ind. 
ii. p. 165 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 331 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 135 ; Bl. 8f Wald. 
B. Burm. p. 120; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 261. Orthotomus edela 
(Temm.), apud Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 120. Orthotomus sutorius, Sharpe, 
Ibis, 1877, p. 109 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 158 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 642 ; 
Hume 4' Dav. S. F. vi. p. 345 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 101 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 305 ; 
Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 517. Sutoria sutoria, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vii. 
p. 
Description. — Male. Forehead and anterior half of crown rufous, shading 
ofi" into ashy on the remainder of the crown and nape ; lores greyish white ; 
ear-coverts very pale rufescent, with the shafts white; cheeks and under 
plumage dull white tinged with yellowish and washed with olive-grey on 
the sides of the body ; back, rump, scapulars and upper tail-coverts 
yellowish green ; central tail-feathers much elongated and coloured like 
the back ; the others greenish brown, each feather narrowly tipped white 
and with a patch of brown in front of the white tip ; wings and coverts 
brown, narrowly edged with yellowish green. 
^\\Q female differs only in not having the central tail-feathers elongated. 
Iris reddish yellow ; eyelids plumbeous ; the edges reddish yellow ; 
upper mandible dark horny ; the lower pale flesh-colour ; legs reddish 
flesh-colour; claws pale horn. 
Length about 6 inches, tail 2*5, wing 1*9, tarsus '8, bill from gape '6. 
