. Birds. Birds. ERPORNIS. 325 the bill is slender and about as lougas the head, with the tip well bent down ; the nostrils are covered by a few long hairs and the rictal bristles are strong; the head is crested, the wing rather long and pointed and the tail perfectly square. The plumage is green. (350) Erpornis xantholeuca xantholeuca. The White-bellied Herpornis. Erpornis xantholeuca Ilodgs., J. A. S. B., xiii, p. 380 (1844) (Nepal). lierpornu xantholeuca. Blaiif. & Gates, i, p. 219. Vernacular names Dung-pu-pho (Lepcha). Description. Whole upper plumage, visible wijigs and tail clear gre
. Birds. Birds. ERPORNIS. 325 the bill is slender and about as lougas the head, with the tip well bent down ; the nostrils are covered by a few long hairs and the rictal bristles are strong; the head is crested, the wing rather long and pointed and the tail perfectly square. The plumage is green. (350) Erpornis xantholeuca xantholeuca. The White-bellied Herpornis. Erpornis xantholeuca Ilodgs., J. A. S. B., xiii, p. 380 (1844) (Nepal). lierpornu xantholeuca. Blaiif. & Gates, i, p. 219. Vernacular names Dung-pu-pho (Lepcha). Description. Whole upper plumage, visible wijigs and tail clear greenish yellow; lores, cheeks and lower plumage white, slightly tinged with grey; ear-coverls ashy-white; under wing-coverts pale yellow ; under tail-coverts bright yellow. Colours of soft parts. Iris brown or red-brown; bill pale fleshy horn-colour, the edges of the commissure, lower bill and gape brighter, paler fleshy ; uiouih and extreme corner of gape yellow; legs and feet flesh-colour or yellowish Fig. 60.—Head of E. x. xantholeuca. Measurements. Length about 120 mm.; wing 63 to 70 mm.; tail about 45 mm.; tarsus about 16 mm. ; culmen 10 to lO'o mm. Distribution. The Himalayas from Nepal to Assam, both Xorth and tSouth of the Brahmaputra, Manipur and practically the whole of Burma, iSiam and N. Malay Peninsula. Nidification. The White-bellied Herpornis breeds from practi- cally the level of the plains up to some 3,000 feet but more often below 1,500 feet than over. The nest is a cradle of fine roots, mixed with fibres and fine grass stems and lined with the latter. It may be pendent in a horizontal fork or just hanging from a few twigs either of bamboo or some shrub within a few feet of the ground. Hopwood took its nest in Burma in March but in India it breeds in April and May. Its nest is built either in evergreen forest, mixed bamboo and scrub or in bushes in thin cover. The eggs are two or three in number, the ground-colour white or, rarely, creamy-white
Size: 2371px × 1054px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectbirds, bookyear1922
