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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
C. discolor, but the under plumage is white and the flanks ferruginous. 
C. stoliczkce is a species allied to C. nipalensis, but differs in having the 
chin and throat fulvous and the breast buff. 
The Sikhim Tree-Creeper was procured by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay in 
Karennee at an elevation of from 5000 to 6000 feet. 
Elsewhere it has only been met with in Sikhim, Nipal and the Dafla 
and Naga hills. 
There is nothing on record about the habits of this particular Creeper. 
The Tree-Creepers climb about the trunks and branches of trees_, searching 
the bark for insects. They nest in holes of trees and lay numerous eggs, 
which are white speckled with red. All the species known are constant 
residents in the countries they inhabit. 
Family LIOTRICHID^. 
Genus COCHOA, Hodgs. 
132. COCHOA PURPUREA. 
THE PURPLE THRUSH-TIT. 
Cochoa purpurea, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v. p. 359; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 243; Humey 
Nests and Eggs, p. 388 ; Hiime 8f Bern. S. F. vi. p. 367 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 104; 
Shai'pe, Cat. Birds B. Mtis. iv. p. 3. 
Description.— Male. Crown of head and nape lavender-blue; back_, 
scapulars^ rump^ upper tail-coverts and the lesser wing-coverts dull 
purple ; tail bluish purple, with black tips and shafts ; lores and sides of 
the head black ; the whole lower plumage brownish purple ; median and 
greater wing-coverts, the basal two thirds of the outer webs of the secon- 
darieSj and all the tertiaries bluish purple ; terminal third of the outer 
webs and the entire inner webs of the secondaries black ; the first two 
primaries all black_, the other primaries and the primary-coverts black 
with the basal third of the outer webs lavender-blue. 
The female has the crown, nape, sides of the head and the tail as in the 
male : with these exceptions, the whole plumage is reddish brown, except 
the terminal portions of the quills and the basal portions of the primaries 
and of the primary- coverts, which are exactly the same as in the male. 
The youTig are somewhat like the female in colour, but the crown and 
nape are brown barred with white ; the feathers of the back have lighter 
rufous centres, and the plumage below is barred with brown, 
