THE GENUS CHLOROPSIS. 69 



272. Tapena agni, de Nic6villa 



Tilin, March. A single specimen. 



2 73. Asticfopterus olivascens, Moore. 



Tilin, April. Two specimens. 



274. Astietopterus sakala, Moore. 



Pauk to Tilin, November ; Tilin, December to May. 



275. Kerana aurivittata, Moore. 



Tilin, November to April. Common in company with 

 C. leucocera, both species frequently caught together sitting 

 on the underside of the same leaf. 



276. Ilcspcria zebra, Butler. 



Pauk, September, November ; Tilin, March. Three 

 specimens. 



THE GENUS CHLOROPSIS. 



By E. C. S. Baker. 



(Read at the Meeting of the Bombay Natural History Society 



on 31st March, 1891.) 



It is with a thorough sense of my inability to treat the subject as it 

 deserves, that I venture to write the following remarks on the place 

 which the genus Chloropsis should hold in the Avifauna, but at the 

 same time I trust that it will induce others more competent to come 

 forward and either correct or support the views taken by myself. 



In the first place, I will quote Oates' words on the subject in full, 

 and will then take them in detail. The paras, will be found in the 

 "Fauna of British India Birds," Vol. I., p. 234 : — 



" Ch loropm is always placed amongst the bulbuls, but with the 

 exception of the very short tarsi, there is nothing in common 

 between the two to point to any close relationship. 



" In this genus the bill is slender and curved, and about as long as 

 the head ; the tip is notched, and the nostrils are oval ; the rictal 

 bristles are weak ; the frontal feathers are advanced up to the 

 nostrils ; the head is not crested ; the wing is rounded, and the tail 

 is short and square; the tarsi are very short, shorter than the middle 

 toe without the claw." 



