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sides of the Neilgherries up to about 4,000 feet elevation. It has also been 

 reported from the Deccan. In its habits the Malabar Green Bulbul does not 

 differ from the last. 



422. Chloropsis zosterops, Vig., App. Mem. Life Raff. p. 674; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 24 ; Oates, B. Br. Btirm. i. p. 207. 

 Phyllornis sonneratti, apud, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 193 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 15. Phyllornis javensis (Horsf.), apud. Blyth, B. Burm. p. 136 ; Hume and 

 Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 324; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 99. The MALACHITE- 

 SHOULDERED GREEN BULBUL. 



Adult Male. Whole upper plumage, wing coverts and tertiaries bright 

 green ; a patch on the lesser wing coverts malachite-green ; other wing 

 coverts bright green ; quills dusky blackish, broadly edged with bright green ; 

 tail green, the inner webs of all but the central pair of feathers brown towards 

 the outer edge ; lores, feathers above the nostrils, a narrow line above and 

 round the eye, the cheeks, chin and throat black ; ear coverts and a line along 

 the black of the throat on each side paler green than the back ; moustachial 

 streak deep violet cobalt, under surface of body bright green, also the axil- 

 laries and edge of wing, but darker ; under wing coverts ashy, washed with 

 greenish at the tips ; legs, feet and claws pale plumbeous j bill black ; irides 

 brown, dark brown or crimson ; eyelids blackish grey. 



Length. 7-5 to 8-5 inches; wing 3-85 to 3-9; tail 2'6 to 3; tarsus 075 ; 

 culmen 0*85. 



The female has not the black throat of the male ; the shoulder patch is 

 emerald green ; the moustachial streak very small. 



Hal. Central and Southern Tenasserim, through the Malay Peninsula to 

 Sumatra, Borneo and Malacca. 



423. Chloropsis jerdoni (Dlyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. 

 p. 26; Jerd., Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 124. Phyllornis jerdoni, Blyth, J. 

 A. S. B. xiii. p. 392 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 97, No. 463; Holdszv. P. Z. S. 

 1872, p. 451 ; Ball., Str. F- 1874, p. 410; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. 

 p. 294 ; Fairbank^ Str. F. 1876, p. 259 ; id. 1877, P- 46 ; Ball., t. c. p. 215 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 99. JERDON'S or the COMMON GREEN BULBUL. 



Above light grass green ; the head dull yellow, shading into the emerald 

 green of the occiput and nape ; anterior edge of eyelid and lores black, also 

 the feathers below the eye, the cheeks and throat ; ear coverts dull yellow, sepa- 

 rated from the black throat by a similar band which extends from behind the 

 eye down the sides of the neck on to the lower throat, where it forms a gorget; 

 moustachial streak violet cobalt ; shoulder patch turquoise blue ; quills 

 blackish brown, edged externally with green, the primaries yellow towards 

 the tips of the outer webs ; inner secondaries green ; tail green ; under plumage 



