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Obs. ^Ir. Hume gives the following note : — " In the Xovember 

 birds the legs, feet, and claws were dull smalt-blue, and so were the 

 lower mandible, gape, and edges of the upper mandible, the rest of 

 the latter being blackish brown. In the June and July specimens 

 the legs and feet were clear lavender-blue ; the lower mandible 

 and a broad line on each side of the upper mandible pale blue, the 

 rest of the latter black (cf. Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 425). 



Lafresnaye's Dwarf Bulbul is found from Arracan, throiigh 

 Tenasscrim, into the Malayan peninsula. 



a. Yix ad. sk. Malacca. Purchased. 



(Tj-pe of riiceniconianes iora.) 



2. Aethorhynchus xanthotis. 



Adult [female'?^. General colour above yellowish green, the 

 feathers greyish at the base, the head and neck a little more 

 yellowish green than the back ; least wing-coverts like the back ; 

 rest of the coverts dusky greenish, conspicuously edged with yellow ; 

 quills dusky blackish, externally margined with yellow, inclining to 

 greyish white on the outer webs of the primaries towards the tips ; 

 tail-feathers yellowish green, edged with yellow along the inner 

 webs ; forehead washed with yellow ; lores, feathers round the eye, 

 and sides of face bright yellow, the latter slightly washed with yel- 

 lowish green ; rest of under surface of body brilliant yellow, the sides 

 of the body slightly washed with green ; Hanks with a large tuft of 

 white feathers ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the former 

 washed with yellow ; edge of the wing bright yellow. Total length 

 5"7 inches, culmen 0-S5, wing 2-7, tail2-U5, tarsus O'S. 



Male. At present unknown. 



Mouhot's Dwarf Bulbul probably represents the preceding species 

 in Siam and Cambodia. 



a. [ 5 P] ad. sk. Cambodia. M. Mouhot [C.]. 



3. CHLOEOPSIS. 



Type. 

 Chloropsis Jord. S;- Selhi/, lU. Orn. text to plate v. 



(1S2(JJ* ! ?C. jerdoni. 



Phyllornis, Temm. PI. Col. livr. 81 (1829, ex Boie, 



MS. t) C. nigricollis. 



* The date of publication of this plate is given by the authors themselves as 

 the year 182fi (see text to pi. C). The type is said to be the Tiirdus cochinchi- 

 ncixsis of Latham, which is given as an inhabitant of " India " and " Cochin 

 China." The description seems to imply that an Indian specimen of C. jerdoni 

 was before the authors. 



t Although nearly every one has quoted Phyllomis as a genus of Boie's, I 

 hare not found any one giving the exact reference to the work in which it was 

 described ; and although the ' Isis ' is mentioned as the work to be consulted, I 

 have carefully gone through the papers of the above-named ornithologist with- 

 out discovering the description of the genus rhyllornh, nor can I find that the 

 name was even mentioned by him. Tntil this can be found out, I am com- 

 pelled to believe that it was a MS. name adopted by Temminck in 1829, in 

 which case it becomes a synonym of Chloropsis. 



