352 TIMALIID.E. 



The female and young have no black on the head ; the chin, 

 throat and a ring round the eye are bright yellow and the 

 moustachial streak is pale and ill-defined. 



Distribution. Tenasserim, South of Te, near Moulmein, Malay 

 Peninsula to Borneo and Sumatra, South-West Siam. 



Nidification unknown. 



Habits. Davison records the habits of this bird as being the 

 same as those of chlorocepliala but that it is even more exclusively 

 a forest bird. This bird is only a race of Chloropsis viridis of 

 Java, from which it differs in the tint of the shoulder-patch. 



(374) Chloropsis jerdoni. 

 JEEDON'S CHLOBOPSIS. 



Phyllornis jerdoni Blyth, J. A. S. B., xiii, p. 392 (1844) (Madras). 

 Chloropsis jerdoni. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 238. 



Vernacular names. Harreiva (Hind.) ; Wanna bojanum (Tel.). 



Description. Male. A moustachial streak bright purplish blue ; 

 lores, chin, throat and a line from the lores over the moustachial 

 streak black ; forehead and a band surrounding the black greenish 

 yellow; lesser wing-coverts very bright malachite-green; 1'einainder 

 of the plumage with the visible portions of wings and tail green. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris brown or red-brown ; bill black ; 

 legs and feet lavender or pale slaty. 



Measurements. Length about 190 to 200 mm. ; wing 86 to 

 89 mm.; tail about 75 mm. ; tarsus 17 to 18 mm. ; culmen about 

 17 mm. 



Female. The black of the male is replaced by bluish green and 

 the cheek-stripe is bright greenish blue. 



The young are like the female but have no moustachial streak. 



Distribution. The Peninsula of India, from Sitapur, Fyzabad 

 and Barti on the North ; Baroda and Panel) Mahals on the West ; 

 the Kajmahal Hills and Miduapore on the East down to and into 

 Ceylon. 



Nidification. This Chloropsis makes a nest like the nest of the 

 genus, a small cradle of soft, tow-like material interwoven with 

 small pieces of grass and other stems, fine roots and lichen and 

 lined, if at all, Avith a sparse lining of grass. This it places in a 

 fork of an outer branch of some tree, generally between 15 and 25 

 feet from the ground. They breed from April to August, laying 

 two or, very rarely, three eggs. These are quite unlike those of the 

 other known eggs of the members of the genus. The ground- 

 colour is a white to a very pale creamy or pink sparingly marked 

 with spots, specks, small blotches and short hair-lines of blackish, 

 purplish or reddish brown, chiefly disposed about the larger end. 

 The surface is glossless but smooth, the texture fragile and the 



