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4. Chloropsis malabarica. 



Le Petit Merle de la cote de Malabar, Sonn. Voij. Incles Orient, ii. 

 p. 192. 



Yellow-fronted Thrush, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. p. 68 (e.v Sonn.). 



Tardus malabaricus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 837 (e.v Lath.). 



Chloropsis aurifrons (nee Temm.), Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 98 ; Jerd. 

 Madr. Jotirn. x. p. 247. 



Chloropsis cffismarhynchus, BJyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 956 (1843). 



Chloropsis malabaricus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 124. 



Phyllornis malabaricus, Bh/th, J. A. S. Bene/, xiv. p. 566 (1845) ; 

 Grai/,Gen. B. i. p. 124 ; B!i/th, Cat. Birds 3fus. As. Soc. p. 212 ; Bp. 

 Coyisp. i. p. 396 ; Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 176 (1853) ; Gould, 

 B. Asia, part xiii. ;' Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 99 ; GVoy, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 277, no. 4079 ; Holdstv. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 451 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 21 ; Fairbank, Str. F. 1876, p. 258 ; Bourd. t. c. p. 400 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1879, vol. viii. p. 99 ; Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 488. 



Adult. General colour ahove bright green; wing-coverts like 

 the back, the least series bright greenish cobalt, forming a shoulder- 

 patch; quills blackish, externally green, edged with brighter green, 

 inclining to yellow on the outer webs of the primaries ; tail- 

 feathers dull green, blackish on the inner webs ; forehead bright 

 orange ; lores black, as also a ring of feathers round the ej'-e ; 

 feathers below the latter and the underpart of cheeks, as well as the 

 entire thorax and fore neck, black ; ear-coverts and sides of neck green ; 

 a broad moustachial streak of deep cobalt, extending beyond the line 

 of the eye ; remainder of under surface of body light green, rather 

 more yellow on the borders of the black throat ; thighs lighter green ; 

 under wing-coverts light ashy, edged with green, the edge of the wing 

 blue ; quills ashy below, much paler along tlie edge of the inner 

 web ; " bill blackish ; legs and feet slaty bluish ; iris-brown " ( Vin- 

 cent Lecfge). Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 3-65, tail 

 2-7, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Somewliat smaller than the male. Bill not so black 

 as in thie male ; forehead green ; throat-patch and cheek-stripe 

 smaller. Length 7-1 inches, wing 3-4, tail 2-8. (V. Lecfge.) 



Young. The male of the year appears to have the forehead and 

 throat green, as specimens are often procured with golden and black 

 feathers mixed with the green respectively on these two parts ; the 

 mnxillary stripe in these is small. (V. Legye.) 



On comparing the series of adult males in Lieut. "Wardlaw 

 Eamsay's collection, a perceptible difference is observed in the birds 

 from Candeish and from Khandala (Fairbank), which have a fringe 

 of yellow skirting the black throat the entire way round on each 

 side to behind the ear-coverts. None of the skins from Malabar or 

 Ceylon show this yellow collar at all; and it is quite possible that 

 there are two distinct species. 



The Malabar Green IJulbul inhabits the forests of Malabar and 

 Southern India, occurring also on the Eastern Ghats and in the 

 forests of Central India. It is likewise found throughout the nor- 

 thern half of the island of Ceylon. 



