272 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the 



92. Chloropsis cyanopogon. 



Chloropsis cyanopogon (T.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. vi. p. 32. 



Phyllornis cyanopogon, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 194 ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 40, 1877, p. 15, 1879, p. 256; Briiggem. Ab- 

 handl. Bremen, v. p. 459 (1877) ; Blasius, J. f. 0. 1882, 

 p. 251 ; id. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 58 (1883). 

 a. 6 ad. Benkoka, Oct. 20, 1885. 



93. Chloropsis kinabaluensis. (Plate IX.) 



Chloropsis kinabaluensis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1887, p. 445. 

 Chloropsis flavocincta, Sharpe, ibid. 

 a, b. 6 2 ad. Kina Balu, Feb. 24, 1887. 

 c,d. 6 2 ad. Kina Balu, March 5, 1887. 

 e. 2 ad. Kina Balu, April 2, 1887. 

 /. 2 ad. Kina Balu, May 11, 1888. 

 g. d juv. Kina Balu, Feb. 24, 1887. 



On looking over Mr. Whitehead's series there is no longer 

 any doubt possible with regard to the sexes of this green 

 Eulbul. Chloropsis kinabaluensis is the female of C. flavo- 

 cincta, as Mr. Whitehead said at the time when he shot them. 

 I was led away by the black throat of the hen bird, so remark- 

 able a feature in the species, and so unexpected in the genus 

 Chloropsis. I retain the name of kinabaluensis for the bird, 

 because it is almost certain to be found to be an inhabitant of 

 Kina Balu only, and, secondly, because there are other allied 

 species with a yellow collar, so that the name oi flavocincta is 

 not distinctive. The extent of the blue moustache of the 

 male varies greatly, being in some large and broad and in 

 others absent altogether ; it is sometimes quite light blue. 



A young male is very like the old female, but is paler 

 green, and with the emerald-green collar round the black 

 throat less distinct. The lores and a patch near the base 

 of the cheeks are black, but the malar line and the rest of 

 the cheeks are emerald-green, like the sides of the face. 

 This bird was shot on the 10th of May. Another immature 

 male, procured on the 24th of February, has the face black, 

 like the old male, a good deal of yellow on the forehead, and 

 the emerald-green collar has a good many yellow feathers 



