Further notes on the habits and structure of this bird will be found in the appendix. 
The specimen figured in the accompanying plate is life size, rather fore-shortened. 
It is from our collection, and was shot at Simla. We have examined the specimens from 
China in Mr. Swinhoe's collection, and find no noticeable difference between them and 
specimens from the Himalaya. 
A good figure of the palatine bones of M. virens is to be found in Eyton's ' Osteologia 
Avium,''piate XII, figure 3. For drawings of the bird see Le Vaillant's Barbus, table 20, 
and Temminck's Planches CoWes, No. 871. A figure of the egg is also given in 
Thienemann's work on Bird's-eggs, t. xii, fig. 9. 
