20 TIMELILDiE. 



grceu on tlic outer webs, the innermost entirely green ; tail-feathers 

 deep blue, more or less green towards the base of the inner web ; 

 " bill deep brownish black ; legs and toes leaden grey ; iris deep 

 brown "' {li. Swinhoe). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0*9, wing 

 3"7o, tail 3-1, tarsvis 0"75. {Mus. Henrii SeeboJim.) 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having no orange on the 

 under surface, and the blue-black throat is also absent. General 

 colour green, inclining to pale bluish green on the head ; the 

 under surface more emerald-green on the centre of the body ; 

 ■wing-coverts washed with blue, as also the outer edges of the pri- 

 maries ; chin and sides of ftice with a slight tinge of blue ; cheek- 

 feathers tijiped with cobalt, forming a moustache. Total length 6'5 

 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-35, tail 2'8, tarsus 0'7. {Mus. Henry 

 Seebohm.) 



The Hainan Green Bulbul is, as far as we yet know, only met 

 with in the Chinese island of Hainan. 



3. CMoropsis aurifrons. 



Phyllovnis aurifrons, Temm. Tl. Col. 484, fig. 1 ; Lesson, Rev. Zool. 

 1840, p. 165; Gray, Gen. B. i. p.. 124; id. Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nejml 

 2)res. Hndgs. p. 61 ; Blyth, Cat. H. Mus. As. Soc. p. 212 ; Up. Consp. 

 i. p. 896; Horsf. Sf 3Ioore, Cat. li. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 258; Jerd. 

 B. Ind. ii. p. 09 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 277, no. 4078 ; Godwin- 

 Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxix. 1870, p. 106 ; Bull, Sir. F. 1874, p. 411 ; 

 Hnme, t. c. p. 477 ; id. Sir. F. 1875, p. 129 ; Bull, Str. F. 1877, 

 p. 417, 1878, pt. 2, p. 215 ; Anders. Zool. F.rp. Yun-nan, p. 061 ; 

 Hu7ne, Str. F. 1878, vol. vi. p. 326, 1879, vol. viii. p. 99 ; Scully, 

 t. c. p. 297. 



Chlorop.«is nialabaricus {nee Gm.), Jardine ^- Selby, III. Orn. pi. v., 

 and text to pi. C. 



Chloru])sis aurifrons, Jardine ^- Selby, III. Orn. text to pi. C ; Hodgs. 

 Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Fasseres, pis. 40, 41 ; id. in Gray's Zool, 

 Misc. p. 82; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 458, xii. p. 956; Jerd. 

 Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 123. 



Phyllornis Lod^soni, Gould, B. Asia, part xiii. (e.r Gray, MS.); Gi-ay, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 277, no. 4073 ; Blanf. J. A. S. Beng. xxxii. 

 p. 73 ; Blyth Si- Walden, B. Burm. p. 137. 



Aclvlt. General colour above bright grass-green ; wings deeper 

 green, with a bright patch of cobalt-blue formed by the lesser 

 coverts ; quills blackish, externally green, shading off into yellowish 

 along the outer web of the primaries towards tlie tip ; tail-feathers 

 dark green, dusky along their inner webs ; fore part of crown bril- 

 liant deep orange ; lores, eyelid, sides of face, and throat black, 

 fringed by a superciliary line of yellow, which embraces the hinder 

 ear-coverts and skirts the black down the sides of the neck, thus 

 forming a collar across the fore neck ; cheeks and throat deep 

 purplish cobalt, not extending onto the lower throat ; remainder 

 of under surface of body bright green, a little lighter in the 

 centre of the bod)- ; axillarics green ; under wing-coverts pale ashy, 

 edged with green, the edge of the wing blue; quills ashy below, 

 lighter along the inner webs ; " bill black ; legs bluish plumbeous ; 



