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. W e 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,’ Plate XII, figure 3. For drawings of the bird see Le Vaillant’s Barbus, table 20, 
and Temminck’s Planches Colorizes, No. 871. A figure of the egg is also given in 
Thienemann’s work on Bird’s-eggs, t. xii, fig. 9. 
