on Dr. Jerdon's 'Birds of India.' 9 



serim Pycnonotus nigropileus there noticed is more nearly akin 

 to P. pusillus of Arakan and Southern India^ and differs only 

 from the IMalayan P. crocorrhous, Strickland, by having the 

 lower tail-coverts crimson instead of flame-coloured^ while in tlie 

 Javan P. chrysorrhous, Horsfield, they are orpiment-yellow. It 

 is not unlikely that these four races will prove to grade into 

 each other. From the Deyra Doon I have seen Eulbuls re- 

 sembling P. pusillus in colouring, but as large as P.pygceus, 

 *Ss!^ these being referable to P. intermedius, A. Hay, noticed by Dr. 

 Jerdon, and doubtless identical with P. bengalensis mentioned 

 by Dr. Adams as being common in the ranges near the plains 

 of the Punjab (P. Z. S. 1849, p. 181). 



Genus Phyllornis (vol. ii. p. 97). 



There are two types of this genus, — one with a melliphagous 

 bill and verditer-blue shoulder, common to India and the Malay 

 countries ; the other with the bill more resembling that of lora, 

 and peculiar to the Malay countries. To the latter type belong 

 P.javensis (P. sonnerati, Jard. & Selby ; Gould, B. As. pt. xiii.) 

 and P. cyanopugon, T. {ibid.), which, differ only, though consider- 

 ably, in size, the rest appertaining to the melliphagous type. 

 In the former of these subgroups, if not also in the other, 1 sus- 

 pect that adults of both sexes are similar, or very nearly so, the 

 plumage commonly supposed to be feminine being that of im- 

 maturity. In the allied genus lora, however, the sexes are 

 differently coloured. I recognized the affinity of lora to Phyl- 

 lornis immediately upon becoming acquainted with the latter in 

 a state of nature (Ann. Mag. N. H. 1849, xx. p. 384, &c.). 

 The two groups have the same geographical distribution. The 

 two sections of Phyllornis indicated are, I think, sufficiently di- 

 stinct to be separately recognized; and I would restrict the 

 name Phyllornis to the javensis type, and adopt Chloropsis, Jard. 

 & Selby, for the other. The range of the Malayan P.javensis 

 extends to the higher mountains of the Tenasserim provinces 

 (J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 277), where it occurs together with C. hard- 

 wickii and C. hodgsoni. The last-named species was obtained 

 by Mr. Blanford seventy miles above Ava (J. A. S. B.xxxii.p.79). 

 C. cochinchinensis, nobis (Jerdon, ii. p. 98), is the P. icteroce- 



