CHLOROPSIS. 13 



Adult Male. Upper plumage green, yellower on the head, and washed 

 with fulvous yellow on the mantle and back ; lores, feathers under the eye, 

 chin, throat, ear coverts and upper breast black ; a broad moustachial streak 

 reaching to the end of the ear coverts cobalt ; remainder of under surface of 

 body rich ochraceous orange, the flanks slightly washed with greenish ; tail 

 dull purple, the inner webs blacker ; lesser wing coverts verdigris blue or 

 bright greenish cobalt, forming a shoulder patch ; remaining wing coverts 

 purplish blue ; secondaries brown on the inner and green on the outer webs ; 

 tertiaries and inner greater coverts entirely green ; under wing coverts ashy, 

 washed with blue ; bill black ; legs plumbeous ; iris light brown. 



Length. 7*5 inches; wing 3*8 ; tail 3*1 ; tarsus 0*7 ; culmen 0*9. 



The female has the upper plumage green like the male, but without any 

 yellowish wash on the head ; lesser wing coverts blue ; other coverts and 

 tertiaries wholly green ; secondaries and primaries brown, edged with green, 

 the first three primaries with a tinge of blue ; tail green ; moustachial streak 

 cobalt, but not as bright as in the male ; sides of the head and neck, chin, 

 throat, and upper breast with the whole of the flanks green, the throat tinged 

 with blue ; lower breast, abdomen, vent and under tail coverts orange. 



Young birds are entirely green, and the moustache and wing patch are 

 barely indicated. As they mature, traces of the orange belly are seen. 



Hab. N.-W. Provinces, and perhaps the Punjab also ; East Bengal, 

 British Burmah, Assam, Sikkim, and along the Himalayan range to Nepaul. 

 Occurs also in Bhootan, Sylhet, Cachar and Arrakan. It has been got in the 

 Tounghoo Hills and in Karenne at from 3,500 to 4,000 feet elevation. In 

 Tenasserim it is said to be confined to the Mooleyit Mountain and its spurs, 

 where it appears to be not uncommon. Sharpe records it from Nynee Tal, 

 Darjeeling, Khasia Hills and the Karin Hills. Of its nidification nothing 

 appears to be known. 



420- ChlorOpsiS aurifrons (Tern.), Jard. and Sell., III. Orn. text. 

 to pl..c. ; Blyth., J .A. S. B . xi. p. 458 ; xii. p. 956 ; Jcrd., Madr.Journ. xiii. 

 p. 123; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. vi. p. 20; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. 

 p. 205. Phyllornis aurifrons, Tern., PI Col. 484, fig. I. ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 99, No. 465 ; Ball, Sir. F. 1874, p. 411 ; Hume, t. c. p. 477 ; id., Sir. F. 

 1875, p. 129; Ball, Str. F. 1877, p. 417; 1878, pp. 215, 326; vol. viii. 

 p. 99 ; Scully, Sir. F. 1878, p. 297. Phyllornis hodgsoni, Gould., B. Asia. 

 pt. xiii.; Blanf.,J,A.S. B. xxxii. p. 73; Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. 

 p. 137. The GOLD-FRONTED GREEN BULBUL. 



Adult. General colour bright grass green; fore-crown brilliant deep orange ; 

 lores, eyelids, sides of face and throat black ; a superciliary fringe of yellow 

 extends to the ear coverts and skirts the black down the sides of the neck ; 

 cheeks and throat deep purplish cobalt ; remainder of under surface of body 



