52 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



Chloropsis MALABARICA MALABARICA. 

 The Malabar Chloropsis. 



Chloropsis malabarica (Gates, Vol. I., p. 235) ; Phyllornis 

 malabaricus (Legge, p. 488). 



Description. — Male: Forehead orange-3'ellow ; lores, cheeks, 

 chin, and throat black ; a moustache streak of hj^acinth blue ; 

 lesser wing coverts turquoise blue ; remainder of plumage 

 grass-green, the inner webs of the wing quills dull brown. 



In the female the throat patch and cheek stripe are smaller. 

 Young birds are green all over. 



Bill blackish ; iris brown ; legs and feet slaty-blue. 



Length 7 • 5 ; wing 3 • 5 ; tail 2 • 6 ; tarsus • 7 ; bill from 

 gape • 95. Females are slightly smaller. 



Distribution. — Not so common as Jerdon's Bulbul, but 

 widely, though locally, distributed both in the hills and the 

 low-country. It is indistinguishable in the open from the 

 next species, unless one is near enough to make out the orange- 

 yellow forehead. The present sub-species is found in India 

 on the Malabar Coast and as far north as ELhandala ; another 

 sub-species is found in Assam, Eastern Bengal, Burma, and 

 Cambodia. 



Habits. — Much the same as those of the next species, but 

 it is apparently not such a good mimic. Little is known of 

 its breeding habits. 



Chloropsis jerdoni. 

 Jerdon's Chloropsis. 



Chloropsis jerdoni (Gates, Vol. I., p. 238); Phyllornis jerdoni 

 (Legge, p. 485). 



Description. — Lores, cheeks, chin, and throat black ; a 

 hyacinth blue moustache stripe ; forehead, above the eye, 

 and all round the black gorget greenish-yeUow ; lesser wing 

 coverts turquoise blue ; rest of plumage grass-green, the 

 lower parts slightly brighter. 



In females the lores and gorget are bluish-green and the 

 cheek stripe greenish-blue. The young are green all over. 



Bill blackish ; iris brown ; legs and feet pale bluish. 



