purple cochoa (Cochoa purpurea)

Query: birds of asia

Result: 258^th of 1792

Subject:	purple cochoa (Cochoa purpurea)
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Title Cochoa purpurea - Purple cochoa
Date 1850-83
Source/Photographer
From: John Gould, THE BIRDS OF ASIA, 7 vols. large folio. London 1850-83. Vol. 2 pl. 2 Scan
older version from http://www.oldprintshop.com/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?action=detail&inventory_id=28977&itemno=1
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cochoa_purpurea.jpg

The purple cochoa (Cochoa purpurea) is a brightly coloured bird found in the temperate forests of Asia. It is a quiet and elusive bird species that has been considered to be related to the thrushes of family Turdidae or the related Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers). They are found in dark forested areas and is found in the canopy, where it often sits motionless. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Turdidae, Species: Cochoa purpurea Hodgson, 1836.

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