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and secondaries black, basally blue banded ; tail dull cobalt-blue, tipped with 

 black ; under surface of body green, the throat and lower abdomen tinged with 

 blue. Bill black ; legs fleshy brown ; irides brown. 



Length. lo"7$ to ll inches; wing 5-6 to 57; tail 475 ; cwlmen 75; 

 tarsus ro. 



The female is paler in color throughout, and the young have the feathers of 

 the upper surface lunated with black ; the wings paler in colour. 



Hab. The N.-W. Provinces, Nepaul and Sikkim. 



The Green Thrush-Tit, although found occasionally about Darjeeling, is 

 very rare, but not so at higher altitudes. It is fairly numerous about Nepaul and 

 Sikkim, and according to Jerdon, Major Tickell obtained specimens near 

 Kurseong during winter. 



180. Cochoa purpurea, Hodgs. J.A.S. B. v. p. 359 ; Jerd. B. Ind. 

 ii. p. 243, No. 607 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 388 ; Hume and Davison, Sir. F. 

 vi. p. 367; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 104; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 3; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 136. The PURPLE THRUSH-TIT. 



Head and nape lavender-blue ; lores and sides of the head, including the 

 ear coverts black ; back, rump, upper tail coverts and the lesser wing coverts 

 dull or ashy purple ; median and greater wing coverts bluish purple ; primaries 

 black, all except the first two, and the primary coverts with the basal third of 

 the outer webs lavender-blue ; the basal two-thirds of the outer webs of the 

 secondaries and all the tertiaries bluish purple ; the terminal third of the outer 

 webs of the secondaries ; and their entire inner webs black ; tail bluish 

 purple, tipped with black. Entire under surface brownish purple. 



The female is similar to the male except that where the male is purple 

 she is reddish brown, and the wing spot is duller. The young is not unlike the 

 female, but have the feathers edged with whitish and the under surface reddish 

 brown, barred with dusky. Bill black ; legs and feet dark or plumbeous brown ; 

 irides dark brown. 



Length. 10-5 to 10*9 inches ; wing 5-5 ; tail 4*2 to 4*5 ; culmen r to T2; 

 tarsus r to 1*1. 



Hab. The Himalayas to Nepal, Kumaon and Sikkim ; also British Burmahr 

 The Purple Thrush-Tit is rare about Darjeeling. Davison procured it on the 

 higher slopes of the Mooleyit Mountains in Tennaserim, and Capt. Bingham 

 got it in the Thoungyeen Valley. According to Hodgson it is common to all 

 the three regions of Nepaul. He remarks " They are shy in their manners, adhere 

 exclusively to the woods, live solitarily or in pairs, breed and moult but once 

 a year, nidificate on trees and feed almost equally on the ground and on trees. 

 He adds that he has taken from their stomachs several sorts of stony berries, 

 small univalve mollusca, and sundry kinds of aquatic insects. The nest is 

 strongly built of moss and lined with lichens. Eggs of a greenish colour, 

 spotted and blotched with brown. 



