The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma/Birds/Order Passeres/Family Paradoxornithidæ/Genus Neosuthora
Genus NEOSUTHORA Hellmayr, 1911.
This genus differs from Suthora in having the tail less graduated and much shorter, not more than three-fourths the length of the wing; the bill is larger and much deeper in proportion; the wing is still more rounded, the 4th to the 7th being subequal. It contains but one species, Neosuthora davidiana, of which a subspecies, N. d. thompsoni, comes within our limits.
(103) Neosuthora davidiana thompsoni.
Thompson's Suthora.
- Suthora thompsonii Bingham, Bull. B. O. C, xiii, p. 63 (1903) (Kyat-pyin, Shan States).
Vernacular names. None recorded.
Description. Top and sides of the head bright cinnamon-rufous; hind neck, back and rump pale slate-grey, more or less washed with olive; wings and tail grey-brown, the quills edged with bright rufescent brown; chin and throat black; breast grey tinged with buff, more especially on the centre; flanks, abdomen and lower tail-coverts clear brownish ochraceous.
Colours of soft parts. Bill fleshy horny; irides hazel; legs plumbeous grey.
Measurements. Total length about 95 to 100 mm.; wing 50 to 52 mm.; tail 36 to 38 mm.
Distribution. Southern Shan States.
Nidification and Habits. Not recorded.