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160 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 brilliant 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.