. Birds .. . full species. Nidification. Exactly like that of ^githina tiphia. Twenty-four eggs taken by Barnes, Kemp and General Betham measure17-1X 13-1 mm. Habits. Tliose of all the rest of the genus. Genus MYZORNIS Hodgson, 1843. The genus Myzornig contains one species of brilliant greenplumage, an inhabitant of the higher portions of the Himalayas. MYZOUNIS. 345 111 Mifzornis the bill is slender and nearly as long iis the head,(listinctiy notched, with the culmen gently curved ; the nostrilsai-e longitudinal and covered by a membrane ; the rictal bristlesaie weak ; the head is not crested
. Birds .. . full species. Nidification. Exactly like that of ^githina tiphia. Twenty-four eggs taken by Barnes, Kemp and General Betham measure17-1X 13-1 mm. Habits. Tliose of all the rest of the genus. Genus MYZORNIS Hodgson, 1843. The genus Myzornig contains one species of brilliant greenplumage, an inhabitant of the higher portions of the Himalayas. MYZOUNIS. 345 111 Mifzornis the bill is slender and nearly as long iis the head,(listinctiy notched, with the culmen gently curved ; the nostrilsai-e longitudinal and covered by a membrane ; the rictal bristlesaie weak ; the head is not crested, but the feathers of the crownai-e somewhat lengthened; the wing is rounded; the tail abouttwo-tliirds the length of the wing and slightly graduated and thet:u-sus is long and slender. The sexes are dissimilar. (307) Myzornis pyrrhoura. TlIH IlRE-TAirjEU MlZOBNlS. Myzornu pt/rrhoura Jlodss-, J. A. S. J5., xii, p. 984 (1843) (Nepal) ;Blnnf. & Gates, i, ]). 2;i;j. Vernacular names. Lho-sugvlt-pho (Lepcha).. Fig. 05.—Head of M. Description.—Male. Lores and a patch behind the eye black;rest of the head and body bright green, the feathers of tlie fore-head witli black centres and a streak above and below the eyestill brighter green ; throat and upper breast suffused with redand the lower breast and abdomen tinged with the same ; ventand under tail-coverts chestnut-red; wing-coverts and inner second-aiies bright green ; winglet tipped with white; primary-covertsblack, edged with green and tipped with yellow; primaries brown,the iirst eight tipped with white, the outer webs of all deep black,more or less edged with red; outer secondaries with the outerwebs red and tipped with pinkish ; inner secondaries black withsome green on the inner webs ; tail-feathers red on the outerwebs, green on the inner, broadly tipped with ^usky. Colours of soft parts. Iris red or red-brown ; bill dusky-brown ;legs flesiiy. Measurements. Length about 130 mm.; .wing 59 to 03 mm. ;tail abou
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