346 TIMALIIDA. 
Genus CHLOROPSIS Jard. & Selby, 1826. 
1 have already referred to this genus when dealing with 
Aigithina. 
It contains a large number of species of bright plumage, princi- 
pally green, w hich extend from Ceylon, through India, Burma, 
Siam etc. to Western China and through the “Malay Peninsula 
to the islands. 
It is represented in India by six species, some of whicn have 
numerous geographical races and are spread over a very wide area. 
In this genus the bill is slender and curved and about as long 
as the head, the tip is notched and the nostrils are oval; the 
rictal bristles are weak ; ; the frontal feathers are advanced up to 
the nostrils ; the wings are rounded, but are less so and longer 
than in the more typically Timaliine birds; the tarsi are very short, 
resembling in this respect the Pycnonotide. 
Key to Species and Subspecies. 
A. Forehead rich yellow-orange, 
a. Chin and throat bright blue. [p. 346. 
a’. A yellow collar round blue throat ....  C. aurifrons aurifrons, 
6’. Yellow collar absent or obsolete... ... C. a. nornata, p. 349. 
b..Chinvand throabl black Gee = cieas vac ete ears C. a. davidsoni, p. 348. 
B. pe greenish or yellowish. 
, Abdomen OFANGSH. 25 giknds wanes oe C. hardwickii, ». 349, 
men green. 
Outer webs of primaries blue ........ C. wterocephala chloro- 
dl. Outer webs of primaries green, [cephala, p. 350. 
a’, A bright patch of colour on wing- 
coverts. 
a’. Moustachial streak a mere short, 
Harrow UMe? Scene ok nso s ete C. viridis zosterops, 
. Moustachial streak broad and [p. 851. 
occupying the whole cheek .... C. jerdoni, p. 352. 
. No bright patch of colour on wing- 
CoveulSe rater bs Mam tiie ees C. cyanopogon, p, 353. 
(368) Chloropsis aurifrons aurifrons. 
THe GOLD-FRONTED CHLOROPSIS. 
Phyliornis aurvfrons Temm., Pl. Col., 484 ( poe! (Cachar). 
Chloropsis aurifrons. Blanf, & Oates, 1, p. 235, 
Vernacular names. Swhz-harewa (Nepal); Hurriba (Beng.); 
Skalem-pho (epeha). 
Description. Forehead and fore-crown golden-orange ; chin, 
cheeks and extreme upper throat brilliant purplish blue ; remainder 
of throat, ear-coverts, round the eye, lores and a narrow line up 
tu the nostrils black ; an indistinct supercilinm and a broad band 
surrounding the black of chin and throat golden-yellow, a patch 
