198 Mr. C. Boden Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



-+' 77. Chloropsis chlorocephala (Wald.). 

 1 c?. Lat Btia Kao. 



Iris dark ; bill black ; feet plumbeous-blue. 

 T.L. 182; W. 86. 



. "^ 78. Chloropsis aurifrons inornatus, subsp. nov. 

 1^ 1 ^ ad., 2 ? subad., 1 ? imra. Lat Bua Kao. 



1 ? ad., 1 ? imra. Koh Lak. 

 y V Ins dark ; bill black ; feet plumbeous. 



Adult males : T. L. 183 ; T. 65 ; W. 88 ; Ta. 18 ; B. f. g. 

 22-5. 



Adult females : T. L. 183, 189, 172 ; T. 63, 63, 60 ; 

 W. 87, 86, 85 ; Ta. 18, 18, 18; B. f. g. 22-5, 22-5, 21-5. 



Like C. aurifrons aurifrons, but with the orauge forehead 

 of smaller exteut, scarcely reaching beyond the posterior 

 limit of the eyes and without any trace of a golden collar 

 bordering the black throat ; also without any yellow on the 

 occiput and sides of the head. 



C a. aurifrons was supposed by Temminck to have come 

 from Sumatra, but Sharpe, who examined the types in the 

 Leyden Museum, found that this obvious error had been 

 amended and " India " substituted, so that region may be 

 taken as the typical locality (Cat. Birds, vi. p. 21). 

 Himalayan birds which have been named hodgsoni by 

 Gould are the largest and brightest of all (vide Hume & 

 Davison, ' Stray Feathers,^ vi. p. 326) ; therefore it would 

 seem that the species gets smaller and duller in colour as it 

 goes south-eastward. My series shows no difference in the 

 colour of the two adult birds, which alone have the fore- 

 head clear bright orange ; the frontal region of the subadult 

 birds is duller and tinged with green, of the immature 

 examples almost entirely green : all except the latter have 

 the chin and throat, as well as the moustachial streak, clear 

 blue ; in the two young birds this colour is replaced by 

 green on the chin and throat. 



I have examined five specimens of C. aurifrons from 

 northern Assam : four skins (unsexed) have a large orange 



