MYZORNIS. 345 
In Myzornis the bill is slender and nearly as long as the head, 
distinctly notched, with the culmen gently curved ; the nostrils 
are longitudinal and covered by a membrane ; the rictal bristles 
are weak; the head is not crested, but the feathers of the crown 
are somewhat lengthened; the wing is rounded; the tail about 
two-thirds the length of the wing and slightly graduated and the 
tarsus is long and slender. 
The sexes are dissimilar. 
(367) Myzornis pyrrhoura. 
Tue Frre-TAILED MyzoRNIS. 
Myzornis pyrrhoura Hodgs., J. A. S. B., xii, p. 984 (1848) (Nepal) ; 
Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 233. 
Vernacular names. Lho-sagvit-pho (Lepcha). 
Fig. 65.—Head of W. pyrrhoura. 
Description.—Male. Lores and a patch behind the eye black ; 
rest of the head and body bright green, the feathers of the fore- 
head with black centres and a streak above and below the eye 
still brighter green; throat and upper breast suffused with red 
and the lower breast and abdomen tinged with the same; vent 
and under tail-coverts chestnut-red ; wing-coverts and inner second- 
aries bright green; winglet tipped with white; primary-coverts 
black, edged with green and tipped with yellow; primaries brown, 
the first eight tipped with white, the outer webs of all deep black, 
more or less edged with red; outer secondaries with the outer 
webs red and tipped with pinkish; inner secondaries black with 
some green on the inner webs; tail-feathers red on the outer 
webs, green on the inner, broadly tipped with dusky. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris red or red-brown; bill dusky-brown ; 
legs fleshy. 
Measurements. Length about 130 mm.; wing 59 to 63 mm. ; 
tail about 70 to 75 mm.; tarsus about 22 to 28 mm.; culmen 
about 13 mm. 
Female has the primary-coverts green, tipped with white; the 
terminal spots on the secondaries pure white and the red on under 
parts, tail and wings duller. 
Distribution. Nepal and Sikkim from 6,000 feet upwards. 
Nidification. No authentic record. 
Habits. A bird of high-level forests, from 6,000 to 10,000 feet 
or more. 
