346 TIMALIID^E. 



Genus CHLOROPSIS Jard. & Selby, 1826. 



1 have already referred to this genus when dealing with 

 ^EgitJiitia. 



It contains a large number of species of bright plumage, princi- 

 pally green, which extend from Ceylon, through India, Burma, 

 Siam etc. to Western China and through the Malay Peninsula 

 to the islands. 



It is represented in India by six species, some of which have 

 numerous geographical races and are spread over a very wide area. 



In this genus the bill is slender and curved and about as long 

 as the head, the tip is notched and the nostrils are oval ; the 

 rictal bristles are weak ; the frontal feathers are advanced up to 

 the nostrils ; the wings are rounded, but are less so and longer 

 than in the more typically Timaliine birds ; the tarsi are very short, 

 resembling in this respect the Pycnonolidce. 



Key to Species and Subspecies. 



A. Forehead rich yellow-orange. 



a. Chin and throat bright blue. [p. 346. 

 a'. A yellow collar round blue throat .... C. aurifrons aunfrons, 

 b'. Yellow collar absent or obsolete ' C. a. inornata, p. 349. 



b. Chin and throat black C. a. davidsoni, p. 348. 



B. Forehead greenish or yellowish. 



c. Abdomen orange C. hardivickii, p. 349. 



d. Abdomen green. 



c. Outer webs of primaries blue C. icterocephala chloro- 



d'. Outer webs of primaries green. [cephala, p. 350. 



". A bright patch of colour on wing- 

 coverts. 

 '". Moustachial streak a mere short, 



narrow line C. viridis zosterops, 



b'". Moustachial streak broad and [p. 351. 



occupying the whole cheek .... C.jerdont,-p.35'2. 

 b '. No bright patch of colour on wing- 

 coverts C. cyanopogon, p. 353. 



(368) Chloropsis aurifrons aurifrons. 

 THE GOLD-FROSTED CHLOEOPSIS. 



Phyliornis aunfrons Temm., PI. Col., 484 (1829) (Cachar). 

 Chloropsis aunfrons. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 235. 



Vernacular names. Subz-hareiva (IVepal); Hwriba (Beng.); 

 Skalem-pho (Lepcha). 



Description. Forehead and fore-crown golden-orange ; chin, 

 cheeks and extreme upper throat brilliant purplish blue ; remainder 

 of throat, ear-coverts, round the eye, lores and a narrow line up 

 to the nostrils black ; an indistinct supercilium and a broad baud 

 surrounding the black_of chin and throat golden-yellow, a patch 



