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parts pale green ; chin and throat black ; maxillary streak 

 (or rather spot) purple ; forehead and cheeks glossy yellow, 

 fading into green on the back of the head ; inner webs of 

 quills dusky ; shoulder-spot glossy azure blue ; tail bluish 

 green. 



Phyllornis javensiSj Blyth. The Green Bulbul. 



Though rather plentiful in Malaccan collections^ I only 

 once myself shot this handsome bird^ viz. during August 1877, 

 in Johore territory, at Buki| Kopong, about forty miles 

 up the Moar river. While in the jungle, on the look-out for 

 specimens, I saw a party of six or seven little green birds 

 fluttering about the ends of the branches of a Avild fruit-tree, 

 and pecking at the blossoms. On shooting one it proved to 

 be a most beautiful male Green Bulbul, in plumage exceed- 

 ingly like P. icterocephala, except that its maxillary streak 

 of purple was considei-ably longer ; and it was also a larger 

 bird, being 8 inches in length. Throat and face black ; inner 

 webs of Aving-quills dusky ; rest of plumage bright green, with 

 a golden gloss, pale beneath. 



The female is of duller plumage, is without the maxillary 

 streak, and has the throat pale green instead of black. 



loRA TYPHiA (Linn.). 



I shot a great number of these birds in Perak, and occa- 

 sionally came across one in Singapore. At first I took them 

 for immature specimens of lora zeylonica (Gm.), as they 

 were all marked with black on the back and head, some very 

 much so on the nape : but they varied a great deal in plu- 

 mage ; one I shot during June, at Kwala Kangsar, a male, 

 had scarcely any black on the head or back, irides white, legs 

 and beak plumbeous, tail greenish yellow, with a dusky tinge ; 

 but I cannot help thinking that this bird was a female, and 

 that I made some mistake in registering it as of the other sex. 



Another, a male, shot at Saiyong, Perak, on 23rd Feb- 

 ruary, had the nape almost entirely black, irides dark brown, 

 and the tail jet-black slightly tinged at its tip with yellowish 

 green. This bird was 5j inches in length; outer edges of 

 wing-feathers, and also the underparts, yellow, becoming 



