16 TIMELIID/E. 



emerald green, deeper on the sides ; under wing coverts and axillaries green, 

 with greyish bases ; edge of wing emerald green ; bill blackish ; legs and 

 feet plumbeous or pale lavender ; iris brown or pale brown. (Legge.) 



Length. 7*8 inches ; wing 3*45 ; tail 3 ; tarsus 0*75 ; culmen O 4 8. 



The/emale has not the black throat, which is pale turquoise blue, and is 

 much smaller. 



Hal. The greater part of the Continent of India, but does not extend to 

 Lower Bengal or the sub-Himalayan districts. It is common in Ceylon, 

 also, according to Jerdon, in the Western Provinces of India and in the jungles 

 of the Eastern Ghauts. In the open country of the Carnatic, Travancore, 

 Mysore, and Hydrabad it is said to be rare, but not so in Central India, at 

 Mhow, Saugor, &c., and through the jungles of Chota Nagpore up to Midna- 

 pore. 



Its habits are quite those of the other species. 



Tickell says it is an excellent mocker, and imitates the notes of almost every 

 small bird of the country. 



The Common Green Bulbul breeds in July and August, but eggs have been 

 taken in different parts during April, May, and June also. The nest is a 

 shallow cup composed entirely of vegetable fibre worked over fine roots or 

 stems. The eggs are rather elongated ovals, white or creamy white in colour, 

 and sparingly marked, chiefly at the large end, with specks, spots and minute 

 blotches, lines, &c., of blackish and reddish or purplish brown ; in size they 

 vary from 0*8 to 0-92 x 0-56 to 0-63. 



424. Chloropsis Chlorocephala (Wald.), Sharpy Cat. B. Br. Hits. 

 vi. p. 28 ; Oates, B. Br. Burnt, p. 208. Phyllornis chlorocephala, Wald., Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. Ser. 4, vii. p. 241 ; Blyth, B. Burnt, p. 137 ; Hume, Sir. F. iii. 

 p. 127 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 323 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 99. The 

 BURMESE GREEN BULBUL. 



Adult Male. (Type of species: Tounghoo). Above grass green, the fore- 

 head rather lighter and more emerald green, shaded with golden on 

 the crown, nape, sides of the neck and hinder neck ; base of forehead, eye- 

 brow and eyelid yellow; lores, anterior edge of eyelid, feathers below the eye, 

 cheeks, chin and throat black; sides of crown emerald green, also the 

 ear coverts, which are shaded with golden and separated from the black 

 throat by a broad band of yellow, which crosses the ear coverts and hinder 

 cheeks and descends on to the foreneck, where it forms a gorget, which is 

 faintly shaded with emerald green; forepart of cheeks with a small violet 

 cobalt moustachial streak ; wing coverts darker green than the back ; lesser 

 wing coverts bright cobalt blue, forming a shoulder patch ; bastard wing and 

 primary coverts deep blue, rather lighter blue on their margins ; quills 

 blackish, the primaries externally bright blue, the secondaries bluish green 



