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. c? ad. sk. Ceylon. Capt. Vincent Legge, R.A. [P.j. 



b. Ad. sk. Ceylon. E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.l. 



c. Ad. sk. Nuwava Elliya. INlr. E. Boate [C.]. 



d. S ad. .<k. Mvuall, Travancore, F. W. Bourdillon, Esq. rC.1. 



iDec. 20, 1878. 



e. S juv. sk. Mynall, Dec. 17, F. W. Bom-dillon, Esq. \C.\ 



1878. 



5. Chloropsis viridis. 



Tardus viridis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. «S'oc. xiii. p. 148 (juv.). 

 Meliphaga javeusis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soo. xiii. p. 152 (descr. 



iiulld). 

 Chloropsis sonnerati, Jard. ^- Selby, III. Orn. text to pi. v. (1826) ; iid. 



op. cii. pi. C. 

 Phvllornis muelleri, Tenim. PL Col. 81, text to art. P. cyanopogon ; 



Less. Eev. Zool. 1840, p. 165. 

 Pliyllornis souneratii, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 165 ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 124 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 396. 

 Phyllornis javensis, Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 260 



(pt.) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 277, no. 4070. 



Adult male (East Java, Wallace). General colour above grass- 

 green ; -wiug-coverts like the back ; quills blackish, externally grass- 

 green, the inner secondaries exactly like the latter ; a conspicuous 

 shoulder-spot of bright cobalt, formed by the least wing-coverts ; 

 tail dark green, dusky blackish along the inner webs ; lores and 

 feathers at base of nostrils, eyelid (excepting the hinder part), sides 

 of face, and throat black, a shade of yellowish green extending from 

 the base of the forehead over the eye across the hinder ear-coverts 

 and down the sides of the neck, skirting the black throat and per- 

 vading the fore neck ; on the cheeks a violet moustachial streak ; 

 remainder of under surface of body bright green; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts light ashy, washed with green at the tips, the 

 edge of the wing green ; quills light ashy brown below, paler along 

 the inner webs. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4-05, 

 tail 3-0, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Green, without the black throat of the male ; round 

 the eye a ring of yellow feathers ; throat yellow ; a slight indication 

 of a liglit-blue moustache. Total length 8-5 inches, culmon 0-85, 

 wing 3'G5, tail 3, tarsus 0-8. (Mas. II. G. Wardlam Bamsaj/.) 



Yniintf (type of Tardus viridis., Horsf.). Differs from the adult in 

 entirely wanting the Tilack throat, and in being dull green all over, 

 with ratlicr more yellow about the face and throat. 



The Blue-shouldered Green Bulbul appears to be confined to the 

 island of Java. 



a. c7 ad. sk. E. Java. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Juv. sk. Java {Ilorsjicld). India Museum. (Tj'pe of 



Turdus viridis.) 



c. $ ad. sk. Java (Horsf eld). India ^luseum. 



d. cS ad. sk. Java (Hi.t-s/ieM). India Museum. (Type of 



Meliphaya javensis.) 



