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perpetually on the ground, seeking their food there exclusively. 
Small scaled insects are their favourite food, with larvae ; next grubs 
and caterpillars ; berries they seldom touch ; never grain nor hard 
seeds, nor consequently gravel." — (Hodgson.) 
" This little bird appears on the hills at about 5,000 feet in May. 
A nest taken much lower down in June, was composed of grasses 
neatly interwoven in the shape of an ovate ball, the smaller end 
uppermost, and forming the mouth or entrance ; it was lined first 
with cottony seed down and then with fine grass stalks ; it was 
suspended among high grass, and contained five beautiful little eggs 
of a cameous white colour, thickly freckled with deep rufous, and 
with a darkish confluent ring of the same at the larger end. 
Diameter -^^ x in. I have seen this species as high as 7,000 feet 
in October. It delights to sit on the summit of tall grass, or even 
of an oak, from whence it pours forth a loud and long-continued 
grating note, like the filing of a saw." — (Hutton.) 
505. SUYA FULIGINOSA, Hodgs. 
Becurus (Suya) fuhginosa, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. 
(18M),^. 82. Rodgs., Cat. B. of JSTep., p. 63. 
a. h. c. d. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., 
June, 1853. 
This species difiers from S. criniger in ha\dng a more robust bill, 
which is entirely black ; the feathers of the breast being dusky black, 
with rufescent white shafts and tips. The legs are also stouter. 
506. SUYA ATBOGULARIS, Moore. 
Suya atrogularis, Moore, P. Z. S. (1854), p. 
A. Darjeeling. From Pearson's Collection. 
h. c. d. Nepal (No. 893, Hodgs. Catal.). Presented by 
B. H. Hodgson, Esq., October, 1853. 
8. atrogularis. Colour above, dusky brown, in some specimens 
ashy brown ; edge of wing at shoulder and under wing-coverts buff" ; 
primaries margined with huffish, and secondaries with rufescent- 
brown ; a whitish streak extending from the base of the lower 
mandible to the end and under the ear-covert ; chin, throat, side of 
neck, breast, and middle of abdomen black, the feathers of the two 
latter broadly centered with white ; flanks and sides of abdomen 
mixed grey, browu, and rufescent ; vent buff* ; thighs huffy -rufous ; 
