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the back ; tail-feathers blue, greenish near their bases ; forehead 

 purplish blue, the eyebrow and ear-coverts being a little lighter and 

 more cobalt-bliie ; lores blue-black ; feathers below the ej-e, cheeks, 

 and sides of throat, as well as the chin, bright purplish blue ; re- 

 mainder of the throat blackish ; the chest bright orange, separated 

 from the black throat by a shade of pale purplish ash-colour ; sides 

 of neck and sides of chest yellowish green ; remainder of under 

 sirrface light grass-green, deeper green on the vent and under tail- 

 coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, tinged witli 

 green, more especially on the outer edge of the wing ; quills dusky 

 brown below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 5'5 inches, culraen 0"65, wing 2*75, taU 2'15, tarsus 0"65. 

 (Mas. Lugd.) 



Adult female. Similar to the male in most respects, but dis- 

 tinguished at once by the colour of the throat, which is .blue, of the 

 same shade as the forehead, eyebrow, sides of face, and ear-coverts. 

 The purplish-blue colour which ornaments the face of the male is 

 absent in the hen bird ; the breast also is a little more yellow than 

 the rest of the undcrparts, but there is no orange as in the male. 

 Total length 5-6 inches, culraen 0-7, wing 2-7, tail 2-2, tarsus 065. 

 (^Miis. Luijd.) 



The Blue-fronted Green Bulbul is at present only known from 

 the typical specimens in the Loyden Museum. The species is one 

 of the smallest and most beautiful of the genus, and is apparently 

 coulined to the island of Sumatra. 



. 4. HYPSIPETES. ^^p^ 



Hypsipetes, Vif/ors, P. Z. S. 18.']1, p. 43 H. psavoides. 



Galgulus, Kiffl. Kupf. Vog. Ileft l,p. 7 (1832, necBriss.) 11. amaurotis. 



Mieroscelis, Gray, List Gr». B. 1840, p. 28 H. amaurotis. 



Orpheus, Temm. Sf- Schl. Faun. Japan., Aves, p.. 68, tab. 



xxxi. B H. amaurotis. 



Cf. A. 0. Hume, Str. Feathers, 1878, p. 296. 



Foot of Hypsipetes psaroidcs:, to show tarsal envelope wilhout scutes. 



Range. Indian peninsula, Ceylon and Nicobar Islands ; through- 

 out the Burmese countries to China, Japan, Hainan, and Formosa. 



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