12 TIMELIID/E. 



Adult Male. Lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks, sides of the neck and 

 the whole lower plumage bright yellow ; flanks with a large tuft of silky white 

 feathers; forehead tinged with yellowish; crown, nape and back greenish 

 yellow, the feathers terminated with black ; rump black ; upper tail coverts 

 and tail greenish black ; wing-coverts and quills black, externally washed 

 with greenish black ; the primaries narrowly edged with yellow ; under wing 

 coverts and axillaries white, washed with yellowish. 



The female is dull grass green above with a gloss of oily green, the feathers 

 grey at the base ; least wing coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts 

 and quills dusky black, washed with green and inclining to pale yellow on the 

 edges ; tail, yellowish green, edged with brighter yellow on the inner webs ; 

 rest of plumage as in the male. (Sharpe.) Bill dark above, bluish grey 

 underneath ; legs bluish grey ; iris brown. 



Length. 5-8 to 6 inches ; wing, 2*75 to 2'8 ; tail, 2*2 to 2-3 ; tarsus, O'8 ; 

 oilmen o'8 to 07. (Sharpe.) 



Hob. Arrakan and through Tenasserim into the Malay Peninsula as far 

 as Malacca. 



Gates says this Dwarf Bulbul is a rare bird in Burmah, except in the extreme 

 southern portion of Tenasserim. Blyth has recorded it from Arrakan. 

 Gates met with it in Pegu. Captain Bingham found it in the Thoungyeen 

 Valley. Davison procured it in Mergui and Bankasoon. 



In habits it does not appear to differ from the common Dwarf Bulbul, and 

 Gates adds that it goes about in couples or singly, searching the leaves of trees, 

 and has a fine whistling call. 



An allied species is sEthorynchus xanthotis, which occurs in Cambodia. It 

 is smaller than lafresnayii and has the wing coverts conspicuously tipped and 

 margined with yellow. The ear coverts, too, are bright yellow. 



Gen. ChloropSiS- Jard and Selby. 



Bill moderate, longer than the tarsus, and variable ; the culmen keeled and 

 more or less curved ; tip bent down and notched ; nostrils basal, long ; 

 rictal bristles scanty ; wing rounded, moderately long ; the 4th and 5th quills 

 sub-equal ; tail moderate, even. 



This genus comprises birds of bright grass green plumage. All are marked 

 or varied with blue and yellow markings about the head, neck, or wings. 



419. Chlor OpsiS hardwickii, Jard and Selby y III. Orn. ii. App. p. I ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 18. Chloropsis auriventris, Deless., Rev. 

 Zool. 1840, p. loo; id. Mag. de. ZooL 1840, pi. 17. Phyllornis hardwickii, 

 Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii., p. 392; Gould, B. Asia Pt. xiii ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. loo, No. 466; Blyth B. Burm. p. 137; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 327; id. 

 1879, p. 99 ; Scully t. c. 297 ; Gates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 206. The ORANGE- 

 BELLIED GREEN BULBUL. 



