. Birds. Birds. MYZOENIS. 233 Genus MYZORNIS, Hodgs., 1843. The genus Myzornis contains one species of brilliant green plumage, an inhabitant of the higher portions of the Himalayas. In Myzornis the bill is slender and nearly as long as the head, distinctly notched, with the culmen gently curved; the nostrils are longitudinal and covered by a membrane ; the rictal bristles weak. The head is not crested, but the feathers of the crown are some- what lengthened. The wing is round; the tail is about two thirds the length of the wing and slightly rounded, and the tarsus is long and slender. 246. My

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. Birds. Birds. MYZOENIS. 233 Genus MYZORNIS, Hodgs., 1843. The genus Myzornis contains one species of brilliant green plumage, an inhabitant of the higher portions of the Himalayas. In Myzornis the bill is slender and nearly as long as the head, distinctly notched, with the culmen gently curved; the nostrils are longitudinal and covered by a membrane ; the rictal bristles weak. The head is not crested, but the feathers of the crown are some- what lengthened. The wing is round; the tail is about two thirds the length of the wing and slightly rounded, and the tarsus is long and slender. 246. Myzornis pyrrhura. The Fire-tailed Myzornis. Myzornis pyrrhoura, Hudgs. J. A. 8. B. xii, p. 984 (1843) ; Blyth, Cat. p. ]01; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. i, p. 263; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 263; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 44. Myzornis pyrrhura, Hodgs., Ilume, Cat. no. 629; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 635; Oates in 'Harness N. 8r E. 2nd ed. i, p. 156. The Fire-tailed Flower-pecker, Jerd.; Lho-sagvit-pho, Lepch.. Fig. 70.—Head of M. pyrrhura. Coloration. Male. The whole head and body, the wing-coverts, and the tertiaries bright green ; the feathers of the forehead and crown with deep black centres ; the lores and a triangular patch behind the eye.black; a streak above and one below the eye brighter green; the throat and upper breast suffused with red; the middle of the lower part of the breast and abdomen tinged with red; vent and under tail-coverts chestnut-red; winglet tipped white; primary-coverts black, edged with green and tipped with yellow; primaries brown, the first eight tipped with white, the outer webs, of all ten primaries deep black, more or less margined with red; secondaries with the outer webs red and tipped with pinkish white; tertiaries black, with some green on the inner webs; tail-feathers red on the outer webs, green on the inner, all broadly tipped with dusky-. Female. Eesembles the male closely, but differs in having the red on the lower parfs dull and subdued, and th