
ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
TARSIGER CHRYS AUS, Honesoy. 
Tarsiger chryszeus, Hodgs, in Proc. Zool. Soc. pt. 13, p. 28; Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi. 
p. 199. —Sericornis chrysea, Blyth, in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. vol, xiv. p. 549. 
——Nemura chrysea, Gray, Gen. Birds, sp. 2. 
Tuts bird is thus described by Mr. Blyth, to whom we are indebted 
for the drawings from which the plate is taken. 
_ “6. Whole under parts, shoulder of wing, more or less of the 
scapulars, rump, and basal three-fourths of all but the middle pair 
of rectrices, brilliant yellow, the last being also yellow at base, and 
there is a narrow supercilium of the same; rest of tail, lores, and 
ear-covers, black; alars and their larger covers, blackish, narrowly 
edged with dull yellowish; head and back, dusky olive, with dull 
yellowish-green margins to the feathers; beak, dark above, pale 
below; legs, pale. 
“9. Upper parts uniform dark greenish-olive, with merely a 
more yellowish shade over the rump ; upper parts sullied yellow ; 
tail, dusky olive, marked as in the ¢, but with considerably duller 
yellow. 
“ Young of the year spotted above like a young robin. 
“ Length, 5.3; wing, 9.7; tail, 2.3; external rectrices, 2; beak 
to gape, 7; tarsus, i. 1, 
“Mr. Hodgson informs us, that this bird inhabits the central 
hills of the Himalaya; is shy, solitary, and bush-loving, constantly 
descending to the ground from its perch; it feeds and breeds on the 
ground, making a compact saucer-like nest of moss. Eggs, verditer. 
In form it comes yery close upon Calliope, and approaches still 
nearer to Cyanecula, from which its principal structural distinction 
consists in the more rounded form of its wings and tail, and the 
somewhat reduced degree of firmness of its plumage; besides which, 
the yellow colouring is a character of the present group. The 
wings have the fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries sub-equal and 
longest, and the first about half their length.”’—Z#. Blyth. 
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