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11. Chloropsis icterocephala. 



Turdus cochincliinensis, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Sue. xiii. p. 309 (nee 



Gm.). 

 Phyllomis malabaricus {nee Gm.), Temm. PI. Col. 512, fig. 2, text ; 



Lesson, Traite, p. 301. 

 Yerdin icterocepliale, Tetnm. PL Col. 512, fig. 2; Lesson, TraiU, 



p. 301. 

 Phyllornis icteroceplialus, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 104. 

 Chloropsis malabaricus, Bh/th, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 957 {nee 5 ). 

 PhvUoniis nioluccensis, /. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 33 ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 



1840, p. 100. 

 Phyllornis cochinchinensis, pt., Bli/th, Cat. B. Mtis. As. Sac. p. 213. 

 Phyllornis icterocephala, Bp. Consp. i. p. 390 (ex Temm.) ; Cab. Mtts. 



Hein.i. p. 114; Reic/ienb. Ilandh., Merojnnce, p. 98, Taf. cccclxiv. 



fig. 3319 ; Jerd. B. Lnd. ii. p. 100 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 207, 



no. 4074 ; Walden, Lbis, 1871, p. 108 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 305 ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 03. 

 Phyllornis cochinchineusis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 396 (nee Gm.) ; Horsf. S; 



Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 260; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix. 



p. 314 (1870). 

 Phvllornis mysticalis, Horsf. ^ 3Ioore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. 



p. 411 (nee' Swains.) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 280. 



Adult male. General colour above bright green; least wing- 

 coverts bright metallic cobalt, the remainder of the -wing-coverts 

 and secondary quills deep blue, externally broadly edged with grass- 

 green ; piimary-coverts deep blue ; primaries blackish, externally 

 deep blue ; tail-feathers blue, the centre cues vrashed with green 

 along their outer webs ; forehead and crown, as well as the sides of 

 the latter and the ear-coverts, bright lemon-yellow, descending 

 along the hinder part of the cheeks to the sides of the neck, and 

 meeting on the fore neck below the black throat ; nape deeper 

 orange-yelluw, the hind neck and mantle also washed with this 

 colour, which also extends onto the sides of the neck ; lores, all 

 the eyelid except the hinder part, feathers below the eye, fore part 

 of cheeks, and throat black, narrowing to a point on the latter ; on 

 the cheeks a deep blue spot near the base of the bill ; remainder of 

 under surface of body bright green, a little more yellow down the 

 centre of the body ; thighs slightly washed with blue ; wing-coverts 

 dark ashy, the longer series slightly tipped with green ; the edge of 

 the wing blue, or washed with greenish blue ; axillaries green, like 

 the breast ; quills dark ashy below, slightly paler along the edge of 

 the inner webs. Total lengt,h 6-8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-35, 

 tail 2-75, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female . General colour bright green, with a slight wash of 

 yellow on the hinder neck and sides of neck ; no black on the face 

 or throat ; wing-coverts deep blue, the greater series edged with 

 green ; least wing-coverts fine cobalt-blue, but the shoulder-patch 

 not so big as in the male ; quills blackish, the primaries externally 

 greenish blue, inclining to silvery grey near the tips of the outer 

 webs, the secondaries bluish green on the outer webs, edged with 

 green, the innermost secondaries entirely green ; tail-feathers 

 bluish, with green edges ; frontal feathers and lores decidedly 



