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their margins ; quills lilackish, the primaries externally bright blue, 

 the secondaries bluish green edged with brighter green, the inner 

 pecondaries entirely grass-green ; tail dull blue, the centre feathers 

 grass-green ; base of forehead and eyebrow and eyelid yellow ; lores, 

 anterior edge of eyelid, feathers below the eye, cheeks, and throat 

 black ; sides of crown and ear-coverts emerald-green, the latter shaded 

 with golden and separated from the black throat by a broad band of 

 yellow, which crosses the ear-coverts and hinder cheeks and descends 

 onto the fore neck, where it forms a gorget, which is faintly shaded 

 with emerald-green ; a small moustachial streak of violet-cobalt on 

 the fore part of the cheeks ; remainder of under surface of body 

 emerald-green, slightly yellowish green on the breast ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts emerald-green, with greyish bases ; quills 

 dusky brown below, ashy along the inner webs ; " bill black ; legs 

 pale slate-colour; iris umber-brown "( TFrtrt7?fny i^rtJHsa^). Total 

 length G-(J inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3'4, tail 2-8, tarsus 0'6o. (Mus. 

 H. G. JVardlaiv Ramscn/.) 



Mr. Hume gives the soft pai'ts (Stray Feath. 1875, p. 128) : — 

 " Legs and feet plumbeous or dull horny blue ; claws plumbeous 

 horny, brown at tips ; bill black ; iris deep brown." 



Adult female. Very similar to the male as regards the green and 

 blue coloration, but wants the black throat and yellow on the sides 

 of the head and gorget ; forehead and lores, as well as feathers 

 round the eye, emerald-green, with a slight tinge of blue in front of 

 the eye ; on the cheeks a small moustachial streak of pale turquoise- 

 blue ; throat emerald-green, slightly tinged with blue ; remainder 

 of under surface pale yellowish green, deeper green on the sides of 

 the body. Total length 6-1 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-05, tail 

 2-55, tarsus 0-65. (Mus. R. G. Wardlcnv Ramsay.) 



Young male. Exactly like the female, except that it wants the 

 blue tinge on the chin and middle of the throat, that it generally 

 exhibits traces of a suLterminal brown band on the tertiaries, and 

 the shoulder-patch is of almost the same coloiu- as that of the adult 

 male, though less in extent {Hume). 



The Burmese Green Bulbul is found in the hill-country of the 

 Indo-Chinese subregion from Pegu and Tenasserim through Burmah 

 (Tonghoo and Karen-nee) and Cachar to Cochin China. 



«, 6. c? $ ad. sk. Saigon, Cochin China. M. E. Pien-e [P.]. 



c. c? ad. sk. Tenasserim. J.C.D.I'ackman,Esq.[P.]. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Pakchan, Tenasserim, A. O. Hume, Esq. 



Jan. 24, 1875 (W. 

 Davison). 



e. cJ iuv. sk. Bankasoon,Tenasserini, A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



April 10, 1877 (IT. 

 Darison). 



f. (J ad. sk. ToDghoo. Lieut. E. G. Wardlaw 



Ramsay. 

 ff. (S ad. sk. Karen bills, Xov. 187-4 Lieut, li. G. WarcUaw 



{E. G. W. S.). Eamsay. 



