. Birds. Birds. 160 TtJEDIB^. Legs and feet dark plumbeous, shaded with black; claws dark horny-brown ; bill black; gape dark plumbeous ; iris red-brow n ; eyelids dark plumbeous {Hume S{ Davison). Length about 11; tail 4'5j wing 5-7; tarsus 1*1; bill from gape 1-3. Distribution. The Himalayas from Eumaun to Sikhim ; Muleyit mountain and the Thoungyeen valley in Tenasserim. This species is no doubt a permanent resident up to at least 8000 feet. Habits, 6[e. A nest said to belong to this species, and found by Mr. Home at Binsur, in Kumaun, was a cup made of moss placed in a small tree. The egg
. Birds. Birds. 160 TtJEDIB^. Legs and feet dark plumbeous, shaded with black; claws dark horny-brown ; bill black; gape dark plumbeous ; iris red-brow n ; eyelids dark plumbeous {Hume S{ Davison). Length about 11; tail 4'5j wing 5-7; tarsus 1*1; bill from gape 1-3. Distribution. The Himalayas from Eumaun to Sikhim ; Muleyit mountain and the Thoungyeen valley in Tenasserim. This species is no doubt a permanent resident up to at least 8000 feet. Habits, 6[e. A nest said to belong to this species, and found by Mr. Home at Binsur, in Kumaun, was a cup made of moss placed in a small tree. The egg was greenish thickly blotched with brown. 707. Coclioa viridis. The Oreen Thrush. Cochoa Tii'idis, Hodgs: J. A. S. B. v, p. 359 (1836); Blyth, Cat. p. 194 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 243; Hume, N. Sf E. p. 389; id. Cat. no. 608; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 2; Hum£, 8. F. xi, p. 239; Oates in Hume's N. ^ H. 2nd ed. ii, p. 111. The Green Thrush^Tit, Fig. 41.—Bill of C. viridis. Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, and hind neck bril- liant cobalt-blue; lores and a short supercilium black ; ear-coverts indigo-blue ; cheeks greenish blue; the whole upper plumage and scapulars varying in different individuals, according to age, from deep green to golden-yellow, the feathers of the back and scapulars fringed with black; median pair of tail-feathers purplish blue tipped black, the next four pairs black on the inner web, blue on the outer and tipped black, the outermost pair entirely black; lesser wing-coverts green narrowly tipped black, the median with broader tips; winglet black; primary-coverts wilh the inner webs black, the basal two thirds of the outer blue and the terminal third black ; greater coverts with the inner webs greenish brown tipped black, the outer with the basal two thirds green, broadly edged with blue, the remainder black; first two primaries black; the remaining quills black, with a long patch of blue at the base of each outer web; the whole lower plumage gr
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