11. MTZ0RNI8. 635 



11. MYZORNIS. 



Type. 

 Myzornis, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 984 (1843) M. pyrrhura. 



Range. Confined to the North-eastern Himalayas. 



1. Myzornis pyrrhura, 



Myzornis pyrrhoura, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 984 (184.3) ; id. in 

 Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844) ; id. J. A. S. Beng. xiy. p. 561 

 (184o); Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 74 (1846) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 101 (1849) ; Jlorsf. | Moore, Cat. 

 B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 263 (1854) ; Goidd, B. Asia, part viii. (1856) ; 

 Jerd.B. Ind.ii. -p. 26S{18Q3). v v> 



Yuhina pyrrhoura, Hodgs. Icon, inecl. in Brit. Mtes., Passeres, pi. 67. 

 figs. 1, 2 (no. 694) ; Gray ^- Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 199, pi. liii. 

 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 397 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 276, 

 no. 4069 (1869). v , 



Myzornis pyrrhurus, Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 104. 



Adult. General colour above grass-green, the head a little brighter 

 than the back and scale-like in appearance, the feathers having an 

 ovate black spot in their centre ; wing- coverts green like the back ; 

 primary-coverts green M'ith a bluish-Tvhite tip, forming an alar 

 speculum ; quills black with a white spot at the tip, the secondaries 

 edged with chestnut, fading into orange and then into white at the 

 end of the margins, the innermost secondaries green like the back ; 

 tail-feathers dark ashy with black tips, all of them red on their 

 outer webs, the two centre feathers green on the inner web ; lores 

 and eyelid black ; over the eye a faint indication of a yellowish- 

 green eyebrow ; sides of face and under surface of body grass-green, 

 ■washed with rufous or saffron on the throat and centre of the body ; 

 under taU-coverts saffron-yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 green washed with yeUow, the bases ashy ; quills blackish below, 

 tipped with white and edged with white along the inner web ; 

 " bill dusky brown ; legs fleshy ; iris brown " {Jerdon). Total 

 length 4-G inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-4, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-95. 



Although nothing is published respecting the difference of the 

 sexes, there is little doubt that the females are duller coloured 

 than the males. Some specimens have the under surface of a 

 dingy bluish green, with a brownish tinge on the throat and chest. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 c, d, e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



/• Ad. ; g, h, i. Nepal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



Juv. sk. 

 k, I. Ad. sk. Sikhim (Z. Mandelli). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



