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ou the fore neck, breast, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts • 

 a narrow superciliary line of yellowish runs across the ear-coverts' 

 along the side of the neck and joins the fore neck, skirting the 

 black of the head and throat ; axillaries green, with grey bases ; 

 under wing-coverts ashy, washed with yellowish green ; quills ashy 

 brown below, paler along the edge of the inner web ; " legs and 

 feet dark plumbeous ; bill black ; irides dark brown " ( W. Davison). 

 Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-U5, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Wants the black throat of the male. General 

 colour green above, yellowish green below ; the thighs yellowish ; 

 lores and feathers round the eye yellowish green ; a moustachial 

 streak of cobalt-blue on the cheeks. Total length 6-5 inches 

 culmen 0-65, wing 3, tail 2-65, tarsus 0-65. 



The Blue-whiskered Green Bulbul is found in Borneo, Sumatra, 

 and the Malayan peninsula, whence it ranges into the extreme' 

 south of the Tenasserim province. 



a,b. S 2 ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



c, d. c? ad. sk. Malacca (Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Sumatra {Raffles). India Museum. 



f. 2 ad. sk. Borneo. Purchased. 



g. 6 juv. sk. N.W. Borneo. Hugh Low, Esq. [C 1 



h, i. (S 2 ad. sk. N.W. Borneo {Hugh R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Low). 

 k,l. S 2 ad. sk. Biutulu. Alfred Everett, Es(i.[C.]. 



14. Chloropsis palawanensis. 



Phyllornis palawanensis, Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd series, Zuol. 

 vol. i. p. 3.3.3, pi. .50, figs. 1, 2 ; Tweeddale, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 619. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above bright grass- 

 green, the head brighter, and the forehead decidedly yellower ; wino-- 

 coverts green like the back, with bluish bases, the least series and 

 the small plumes at the bend of the wing rich purple, forming a 

 shoulder-spot ; bastard wing- and primary-coverts blue ; primaries 

 black, the outer web blue, the secondaries more or less blue in the 

 centre, shading off externally into the gi-een of the back ; tail blue, 

 with a slight wash of green, especially on the centre feathers ; sides 

 of the face bright golden yellow, the ear-coverts green on their 

 hinder margin ; round the eye a ring of purple feathers ; lores and 

 a spot at the base of the lower mandible greenish blue ; eyelids dull 

 purple ; checks lilac, forming a moustachial streak ; entire throat 

 bright golden yellow ; rest of under surface bright green, as also 

 the axillaries ; under wing-coverts and lining of quills dark grey, 

 the inner webs of the latter whitish along their margins ; bill black ; 

 iris dark brown. Total length 7 inches, culmen O'So, wing 3-5, 

 tail 2-^, tarsus 0-8. {Coll. J. B. Siecre.) 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but having the moustachial 

 streak blue. Total length 6-6 inches, wing 3-3, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-7. 

 ( Coll. J. B. Steere.) 



In my original description, by the omission of some words, I have 

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