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Identifier: faunaofbritishin01bake (find matches)
Title: The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Baker, Edward Charles Stuart, 1864-1944 Oates, Eugene William, 1845-1911 Blanford, William Thomas, 1832-1905
Subjects: Birds -- India
Publisher: London, Taylor & Francis
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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n being darker and morerichly coloured everywhere and in having a well-defined blackeyebro\\. Colours of soft parts. Maxilla fleshy, the culmen and base alittle darker and becoming bluish next the forehead, lower mandiblepale fleshy, the gonys almost white; irides hght bright brown;legs pale, clear bluish plumbeous, claws paler still. Measurements. Total length 145tol50mm.; wing 57to59mm.;tail about 9U mm.; culmen about 10 mm. and fron) gape about12 mm. Distribution. From Cachar to Lakhimpur in Assam, south ofthe Brahmaputra and east of the Dibong in the Abor and MiriHills, north of the same river and thence eastwards to Yunnanthrough the Shan States. Godw in-Austens birds irom Baladhanwere undoubtedly of this and not the last race. Nidification. The only nest I have seen of this bird was anexact miniature of those of Paradoxornis and Psittiparus. Out-wardly it measured 25 x 3 deep and inwardly 2 x 2. It wascomposed of fine shreds of grass and reed-bark with a liuing of BIRDS. VOL. I.
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SUTHORA R. ATROSUPERCILIARIS. The Slack-browed Suthora. % life size. KEOSUTIIOEA. 115 the finest grasses but, under these, were a few scraps of bambooleaves. It Avas bouud together with cobwebs and placed ia abamboo clump growiug on a grass-covered hillside. Tlie single egg contained in the nest was a pale hedge-sparrowblue and measured 19-o x 15-2 mm. A nest witli three eggs takenby a Naga were similar but the latter measured only about18--1X 13-(i mm. Habits. An inveterate little skulker in long grass and scrub-jungle, never taking to flight unless actuallj^ forced, but creepingin and out low down and out of sight, though its constanttwittering- may be heard the whole time. They go about in largeparties numbering a dozen or more and, when they think theyare not beiug watclied, every now and then one climbs to a tallgrass, clnrps loudly and immediately descends again. They con-sort frequently with bofcli Fsittiparas rufir.qjs and Paradoxornisand it is very curious to watch these thre

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