Genus OETHOTOMUS. 
Bill long and slender, straight, tip entire. Nostrils basal, lateral, and somewhat advanced; 
rictal bristles minute. Wings short and rounded ; the 1st quill more than half the length of 
the 2nd ; the 4th and 5th the longest. Tail very narrow, the centre feathers, in some, elongated 
at the breeding-season. Tarsus long, stout, and scutellate in front. Toes slender, claws much 
compressed. 
Nuchal “ hairs ” moderate. 
OETHOTOMUS SUTOEIUS. 
(THE INDIAN TAILOR-BIED.) 
Ortliotomm sutorius, G. K. Forster, Ind. Zool. p. 17 (1781). 
Motacilla sutoria, Penn. Ind. Zool. p. 17, pi. 8 (1790). 
Motacilla longicatida, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 954 (1788). 
Orthotomus longicauda (Gm.), Strickl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1844, xiii. p. 35; Blyth, Cat. B. 
Mus. A. S. B. p. 144 (1849); Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 120 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. 
& Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 262 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 81 ; Horsf. &, Moore, 
Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 317 (1854) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. ii. j). 165 (1863) ; Holdsw. 
P. Z. S. 1872, p. 455; Hume, Nests and Eggs, ii. p. 331 (1874); Oates, Str. Feath. 
1875, p. 135 ; Butler & Hume, t. c. p. 479. 
Orthotomus sutorius (Forst.), Hodgs. in Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844) ; Walden in Blyth B. 
Burm. p. 120 (1875); Fairbank, Str. Feath. 1877, p. 406; Davison & Hume, ibid. 
1878, p. 345. 
Le petit Figuier a longue queue de la Chine, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 206 ; Long-tailed Warhler, 
Lath. ; The Rufous-headed Kelaart. Phutki, Hind. ; Tuntuni, Beng. ; Patia, 
lit. “Leaf-bird,” Nepal.; LikJcu jitta, Telugu. 
Tavik, Sinhalese, from the note. 
Adidt male. Length 4-2 to 5-0 inches (according to length of tail in breeding-season), average normal length 4'3 ; 
wing 1-8 to 1-9 ; tail 2-0 to 2-5, centre feathers 0-75 to 0’8 longer than the rest ; tarsus 0-75 ; middle toe and claw 
0’55 ; bill to gape 0'65 to 0-7. 
Adult female. Smaller than male; length 4T to 4’2 inches ; wing 1-7. 
Iris pale reddish ; eyelid rufescent yellow ; bill fleshy, with dusky culmen ; legs and feet fleshy reddish or “ flesh- 
colour.” 
Eorehead and crown rufous, changing into ashy on the nape, and thence into the olive-greenish of the hind neck, 
back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts ; quills and tail light brown, the latter tipped pale and with a subterminal 
bar of darker brown ; tail-feathers towards their bases, and the w'ing-coverts and tertials, edged wdth the hue of 
the back ; the primaries edged with olivaceous ; throat, face, and under surface whitish, purest on the lower breast ; 
the flanks and sides of chest ashy grey ; a dark patch (usually concealed) on either side of the throat, formed by 
the bases of the neck-feathers and the blackish skin of that part ; under wing-coverts rufescent yellow, and the 
thighs brownish rufous. The elongated centre tail-feathers are yellowish ohve-green, and they are indistinctly 
tipped and banded like the rest. The nuchal hairs are small in this species. 
Young. Birds of the year have the under mandible dusky and the legs brownish fleshy. 
The forehead and crown are dusky rufous ; the upper tail-coverts and margins of tail-feathers near the base are slightly 
rufous ; otherwise as in the adult. 
