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shape a rather long obtuse oval. Thirty eggs average 21-1 x 
15:1 mm.; the extremes are 23-1 x 18-4 mm. and 19°3 x 14:3 mm. 
Habits. Jerdon’s Chloropsis is found either in pairs or small 
parties frequenting trees in fairly open country, gardens, orchards, 
small spinneys and light forest. It apparently is not found 
in heavy forest such as is common in sub-Himalayan plains and 
in parts of Southern India also. It is as active in its habits as 
the rest of its relations, a sweet songster with an endless répertoire 
ot notes, both of its own and copied from other birds. Many of 
its notes are very like those of the common King-Crow, though 
softer and sweeter. It is a favourite cage-bird, feeding, ‘both in 
captivity and when wild, on fruit, seeds and insects. It is very 
fond of small grasshoppers. 
(375) Chloropsis cyanopogon. 
Tue BLUE-WHISKERED CHLOROPSIS. 
Phyllornis cyanopogon Temm., P).Col., 512, fig. i (1829) (Sumatra). 
Chloropsis eyanopogon. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 239, 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description — Male. he upper plumage, tail, wing-coverts and 
sides of the neck bright green, the forehead tinged with yellow 
and inner webs of tail- Pedthers brown ; wing- quills dark brown 
edged with green ; lores, cheeks, chin and throat black; a line 
over the lores and eye brighter green than elsewhere; a short 
moustachial streak blue; a line round the black throat greenish 
yellow; lower plumage ight green. 
Colours of soft parts. Ivis dark brown; bill black; legs and 
feet dark plumbeous. 
Measurements. Length about 180 mm.; wing 81 to 85 mm.; 
tail about 30 to 33 mm.; tarsus about 18 mm.; culmen about 
15 mm. 
Female. Chin and throat green, the moustachial streak pale 
dull blue and feathers round eye yellowish. 
Distribution. The South of Tenasserim down the Malay 
Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. South-West Siam. 
Nidification. Unknown. 
Habits. According to Davison the habits of this bird closely 
resemble those of the Burmese Chloropsis. ‘ 
Genus MESIA Hodgson, 1838. 
The genus Mesta is very closely allied to Liothrix, differing 
principally in the shape of the tail, which is rounded and a little 
graduated. The bill is exactly like that of Ziothriv but the 
nostril is covered by a peculiarly shaped membrane. 
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