CHLOROPSIS. 351 
coverts green tinged with blue: lesser coverts glistening cobalt- 
blue; median and greater coverts green tinged with blue at the 
base ; under plumage bright green tinged with blue on the breast. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris brown; bill black; legs plumbeous. 
Measurements. Length about 180 mm.; wing 80 to 85 mm.; 
tail about 67 to 7O1nm.; tarsus about 18 mm.; eculmen 16 to 
17 mm. 
Female. The black on the head is replaced by bluish green, 
there is no yellow band round the black; the moustachial streak 
is pale and the general tint duller. 
Distribution, Hills South of the Brahmaputra to the extreme 
East of Assam, Manipur, Burma, the whole of Siam, East to 
Cochin China and ¥emnan,;and South to Tenasserim. 
Nidification. Similar to that of the other species of this genus. 
I found it breeding in N. Cachar and the Khasia Hills in April 
and May and again, perhaps a second brood, in July and August. 
They kept for breeding purposes to dense, humid forests between 
2,000 and 6,000 feet. Sixteen eggs average 22°3 x 15°5 mm., the 
extremes being 23:°2x15-4mm.; 22°3x16:0 mm. and 21:0x 
14:4 mm. 
Habits. In the non-breeding season the Burmese Chloropsis is 
found from the plains up to at least 6,000 feet, but during the 
breeding time seems to leave the plains and keep to the higher 
hills. Jt has the usual habits of the genus and a very sweet song, 
though not as fine as that of the Orange-bellied Chloropsis. 
(373) Chloropsis viridis zosterops. 
Tun MALACHITE-SHOULDERED CHLOROPSIS. 
Chloropsis zosterops Vigors, App. Mem. Life Rafil., p. 674 (1830) 
(Tenasserim) ; Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 238. 
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Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description.—Male. The whole upper plumage, wing-coverts, 
inner secondaries and tail bright green, the inner webs of all but 
the central tail-feathers edged with brown; a patch on the lesser 
wing-coverts malachite-green ; other wing-quills dark brown, 
broadly edged with bright green; feathers above the nostrils, 
lores and a narrow line over the eye, cheeks, chin and throat 
black ; ear-coverts and next the black throat a paler green than 
the back; a short blue moustachial streak ; lower plumage bright 
green, a little paler than above. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris light brown, dark brown to crimson ; 
bill black ; legs and feet pale to dark plumbeous. 
Measurements. Length about 220 to 230 mm.; wing 87 to 
90 mm. ; tail about 75 mm.; tarsus about 19 mm.; culmen about 
20 mn. 
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