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1. Chloropsis hardwickii. 



Chloropsis hardwickii, Jard. 8^ Selbi/, III. Orn. ii. J2'p. p. 1 ; Blyth, 



J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 106; Jerd. Madr. Jmirn. xiii. p. 125. 

 Chloropsis curvirostris, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 345 ; Ueless. Voy. 



dans rinde, ii. p. 23, pi. 7; BIyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 955. 

 Chloropsis chrysogaster, M'Clell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 107. 

 Chloropsis auriveutris, Deless. Eev. Zool. 1840, p. 100 ; id. Mag. de 



Zool. 1840, pi. 17. 

 PhTllornis auriveutris. Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 165. 

 Chloropsis cyaoopterus, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pis. 39 & 40, nos. 250, 251, 252 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82. 

 Phyllornis hardwiclni, Blgth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 392, xiv. p. 566, 



XV. p. 49; Grai/, Cat. Mamm. SiC. Nepal jJres. Hodgs. 1846, p. 60 ; 



id. Gen. B. i. p. 124 ; Bhith, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 212 ; Cab. 



Mus. Ilein. Th. i. p. 114; Bp. Consp. i. p. 396; Mors/. S,- 3Ioore, 



Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 258 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xiii. ; Jerd. 



B. Ind. ii. p. 100 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 277, no. 4075 ; Godic- 



Aust. J. A. S. Beng. xxxix. p. 106 (1870) ; Bh/th ^- Wald. B. Burm. 



p. 137 ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 327, 1879, p. 99 : Scully, t. c. p. 297. 



Adult male. General colour above bright green, j-ellower on the 

 head, and washed with yellow on the mantle and back ; least wing- 

 coverts bright greenish cobalt, forming a shoulder-patch ; remainder 

 of wing-coverts purplish blue ; quills blackish, rather brighter 

 purple along the outer webs, the inner gi-eater coverts and the 

 inner secondaries externally green, the innermost being entirely 

 green Like the back ; tail-feathers dark purple, blackish on the inner 

 web ; lores, ear-coverts, and entire throat and fore neck black, the 

 two latter glossed with purple ; the forehead, eyebrow, and hinder 

 margin of ear-coverts more distinctly ochraceous yellow ; cheeks 

 deep cobalt, forming a distinct moustache ; remainder of under 

 surface of body rich ochraceous orange, with a slight wash of green 

 on the flanks ; under wing-coverts ashy, slightly washed with blue, 

 the edge of the wing deep blue ; axillaries pale yellowish rufous, 

 slightly washed with green on the edges ; quills ashy below, lighter 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " bill black ; legs plumbeous ; 

 ins light brown" {Jerdon) ; " iris brown or dark brown" (^Scully). 

 Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 3'8, tail 3-1, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Green above like the male, but without any of the 

 yellow wash on the head and back ; wing-covcrts and outer aspect 

 of quills green, with a little blue on the bastard wing- and primary- 

 coverts ; least wing-coverts glossy cobalt, but not so bright as in 

 the male ; centre tail-feathers green, the outer ones bluish green, 

 more blue on the inner webs ; a faint indication of a lighter green 

 e5"ebrow ; cheeks cobalt-blue, not so bright as in the male ; under 

 surface of body light green, with a wash of blue on the chin and 

 throat, the centre of the body ochraceous orange, not so bright as in 

 the male; no black on head or throat; under wing-coverts ashy, 

 tinged with bluish green, the edge of the wing blue ; axillaries very 

 pale green ; quills ashy below, paler along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length 7'3 inches, culmen 0"9, wing 3-55, tail 2-8, 

 tarsus 0"75. 



