PARADOXORNIS UNICOLOR, doags.

Long-tailed Paradoxornis.

Heteromorpha unicolor, Hodgs. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xii. p. 448, with a figure.—Gray’s Zool. Mise. p. 84.—
Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc, Beng. vol. xiv. p. 578.

Paradoxornis unicolor, Hodgs. Cat. of Birds of Nepal, p. 111.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. App. p. 18.
—Bonap. Gonsp. Gen. Av. p. 500, Paradowornis, sp. 3.—Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. Hast Ind. Comp.

 

Mr. Hopeson, who has contributed so largely to our knowledge of the ornithology of Nepaul, is the
discoverer and describer of this new species of Paradoxornis, which he considered to be distinct from the
hich he therefore proposed the term Heteromorpha: it is true that the bill is
, and has straighter tomia, and that the plumage is more lax and

and in its large feet, is truly

type of the genus, and for w
not so deep, is less flattened on the sides
still the bird, in its general aspect, in the form of its wing,

loose in its texture ;
hove mentioned rather as specific than

a Paradowornis ; 1 am therefore induced to regard the differences a
generic.

Mr. Hodgson states that it “ inhabits
the ground, but seems to feed aloft on wood b

the thick brushwood of the Cachar of Nepaul ; frequently alights on
ugs and other hard tree-insects ; occurs in small flocks, and

is not noisy.”
Judging from the other species, we may infer th
Specimens of this rare bird are contained in the collection

at there is no difference in the colouring of the sexes.
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.

The figures are of the natural size.