Gen. Suthora, Hodgson.
Syn. - Temnoris and Hemirhynchus, Hodgson (postea).
Char. - Bill very short and stout, as high and nearly as wide as long ; ridge much curved; the sides slightly tumid ; rictus smooth ; nostrils concealed by plumes; wings short, rounded, 6th quill longest; tail rather long, graduated, feeble; tarsus long, smooth ; toes short; nails compressed and acute, hind toe stout; outer toe slightly longer than the inner.
This remarkable group of small birds cannot, I think, be separated from the last series, as is done by Gray and others, for they are distinctly connected to Paradoxornis by Chlenasicus. Gray, Horsfield, and Blyth, however, agree in lacing them among the Parinae, near the long-tailed Tit-mouse and Panurus biarmicus, as does Hodgson, though he asserts their relationship with Heteromorpha, &c. But it appears to me questionable if the bearded Tit-mouse really belongs to the Parinae, for it differs from them by its short wings, large legs and feet, short tumid bill, and dense plumage; and, in these points, certainly agrees with Suthora. Bonaparte, indeed, in his Conspectus, placed Suthora among his Leiotrichinae, with Paradoxornis and Conostoma.
Syn. - Temnoris and Hemirhynchus, Hodgson (postea).
Char. - Bill very short and stout, as high and nearly as wide as long ; ridge much curved; the sides slightly tumid ; rictus smooth ; nostrils concealed by plumes; wings short, rounded, 6th quill longest; tail rather long, graduated, feeble; tarsus long, smooth ; toes short; nails compressed and acute, hind toe stout; outer toe slightly longer than the inner.
This remarkable group of small birds cannot, I think, be separated from the last series, as is done by Gray and others, for they are distinctly connected to Paradoxornis by Chlenasicus. Gray, Horsfield, and Blyth, however, agree in lacing them among the Parinae, near the long-tailed Tit-mouse and Panurus biarmicus, as does Hodgson, though he asserts their relationship with Heteromorpha, &c. But it appears to me questionable if the bearded Tit-mouse really belongs to the Parinae, for it differs from them by its short wings, large legs and feet, short tumid bill, and dense plumage; and, in these points, certainly agrees with Suthora. Bonaparte, indeed, in his Conspectus, placed Suthora among his Leiotrichinae, with Paradoxornis and Conostoma.
