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Legs and feet dark plumbeous, shaded with black ; claws dark 

 horny-brown ; bill black ; gape dark plumbeous ; iris red-brown ; 

 eyelids dark plumbeous (Hume fy Davison). 



Length about 11; tail 4'5; wing 5*7; tarsus 1/1; bill from 

 gape 1/3. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Kumaun 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, fyc. 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. Cochoa viridis. The Green Thrush. 



Cochoa viridis, Hodys. J. A. S. B. v, p. 359 (1836) ; Blyth, Cat. 

 p. 194 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 243 ; Hume, N. fy E. p, 389 ; id. Cat. 

 no. 608 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 2 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 239 ; 

 Oates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 111. 



The Green Thrush-Tit, Jerd. 



Fig. 41. Bill of C. viridis. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crow r n, 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 with 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 green, suffused with 

 blue on the abdomen and with oil -yellow on the breast and 

 flanks. 



