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.
I t 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 ' Qsteologia
Avium,' Plate X I I , figure 3. For drawings of the bird see Le Vaillant's Barbus, table 20,
and Temminck's Planches Coloriees, No. 871. A figure of the egg is also given in
Thienemann's work on Bird's-eggs, t. xii, fig. 9.
