3. CHLOROPSIS. 25 



would make it appear that the black throat is gained by a gradual 

 change of feather. I can find no evidence of a direct moult. 



Mr. Alfred Everett gives the soft parts as follows : — 



c? . Jambusan. Iris chocolate ; bill and legs black. 



c? . Sibu. Iris chocolate-brown ; legs light green ; bill black. 



cJ . Busan. Iris dark brown ; legs leaden. 



In Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay's collection are the following speci- 

 mens collected by himself :- — 



(S . Malacca. Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs yellowish green. 



cJ . Malacca. Iris bright brown ; legs bluish slate. 



$ . Malacca. Iris and legs as in preceding specimen; bill blackish, 

 the base of the lower mandible albescent. 



Mr. Davison's notes on the soft parts are as follows : — " Legs, feet, 

 and claws pale to dark plumbeous ; bill black, the base of lower 

 mandible sometimes brown ; irides vary — brown, wood-brown, lake, 

 or crimson ; eyelids blackish grey." 



The Malachite-shouldered Green Bulbul is found in the islands of 

 Borneo and Sumatra, where it is apparently not rare. It ranges 

 through tbe Malay peninsula to the forests of Central and Southern 

 Tenasserim. 



a. c? ad. sk. Tenasserim. J. C. D. Packman, Esq. [P.]. 



b. S ad.; c. c? Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 juv. sk. 



d,e. 6,fj'J- ? Malacca (Z)r. Cantor). India Museum. 



ad. sk. 



h. S imm. sk. Malacca (Griffitli). India Museum. 



i. S iiuiu. sk. Malacca. W. Harvey, Esq. [P.]. 



k. J ad. sk. Sumatra {Raffles). India Museum. 



/. 5 ad. sk. Sumatra {Raffles). India Museum. (Type of 



species.) 



wi, 11. (S 2 ^^^- Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq, [C.]. 



sk. 



o,p. cfjad. sk. Lumbidan, N.W.Borneo R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



(Hiif/h Loic). 



q 2 ad. sk. Sarawak. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C] 



r. S imm. f'k. Sarawak, Dec. 1878. Henry Everett, Esq. [C 



s. S ad. sk. .Tauibusai), 1874. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C, 



t. S ad. ^k. Sibu, August 1874. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C 



7. Chloropsis jerdoni. 



C'hJoropsis cffismarliynchus*, Tickcll, J. A. S. Bern/, ii. p. 577. 

 Cliloropsis cnchinchinensis (nee Gin.), Jard. i^- Sc/hi/, III. Orn. text 



to pi vii. (18i>(i); J<^>'d- Madr. Jvurn. x. p. 247; Blyth, J. A. S. 



lieiiff. xii. p. 9.57. 

 Chloropsis malabaricus (wee Gm.), Jard. i!(- Selbrj, III. Orn. text to 



pi. C. 



* Supiiiiscd by tlorsfiold and Mooro tu liavo been a misprint fui- gampsorhyii- 

 clius of Jardine and f-'dby. 



