The Birds of Sikkim

abdomen ashy Asiat Assam babblers bamboo Bengal Bhutan Bhutia bill black bill horny birds blackish blue Blyth Brahmaputra River breast breeding bright brownish Bulbul Burma bush chestnut chin and throat Chungthang claws horny brown collected by Schäfer crimson Darjeeling dark brown Dikchu DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE SIKKIM elevation Fauna gives feathers feet and claws Female FIELD CHARACTERS Flycatcher forehead forest fulvous Gangtok gives Wing greenish grey greyish HABITS Himalayas Hodgson Indochinese subregion insects Iris brown Jour Lachen Lachung laughing thrushes legs and feet Lepcha lower mandible Male mandible Manipur Martam Meinertzhagen moss NAME nape Nepal Nest-a NESTING nipalensis olive-brown pale paler patch Plate plumbeous RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS Rangpo recorded in Sikkim reddish brown rhododendron Rinchinpong rufous rump Schäfer's Sikkim Sexes alike Singalila Ridge Singhik Singtam slaty Sparrow species extends Specimens collected STATUS AND HABITAT streaked supercilium tarsus Thailand Thangu Tibet tree whitish winter woodpecker yellow yellowish Yunnan Zool