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edged with brighter green, the inner secondaries entirely grass green ; tail 

 dull blue, the centre feathers grass green; under surface of body emerald 

 green, slightly yellowish green on the breast ; axillaries and under wing 

 coverts emerald green with greyish bases. (Sharpe.) Bill black ; legs slate 

 colour ; iris umber brown. (Wardlaw- Ramsay.) 



Lenglh. frb to 7*1 inches ; wing 3*3 to 3*4; tail 2*7 to 2'8 ; tarsus O'6c; to 

 0*8; culmen O'8 to 0^85. 



The female wants the black on the throat and the yellow on the sides of the 

 head ; the yellow band encircling the black is absent ; the forehead and lores 

 as well as the feathers round the eye are emerald green, with a slight tinge 

 of blue in front of the eye. It is also smaller than the male. 



Le.ngth.b inches; wing 3-05. 



Hab. Hill country of the Indo-Chinese sub-region from Pegu and Tenas* 

 serim through Burmah (Tounghoo and Karenne), and Cachar to Cochin- 

 China. (Sharpe.) According to Gates, it is stated to have been found in 

 Arrakan ; also abundantly in all the higher hills of Pegu where the forest is 

 evergreen, but is not, he thinks> found in the plains. Davison found it very 

 common throughout Tenasserim, and Captain Bingham in the Thoungyeen 

 Valley. To the south it has been found in the Malay Peninsula, extending east 

 to Cochin-China. It has also occurred in the Garo Hills in Eastern Bengal. 



425. ClllorOpSiS Cyanopogon (Tern.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vi. p. 32 ; OateS) B. Br. Burm. i. p. 209. Phyllornis cyanopogon, Tern. PL 

 Col. 512, f. i.; Salvad. Ucc. Born.^. 194; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 

 325 ; Hume, Str. F. p. 99. The BLUE-WHISKERED GREEN BULBUL. 



Adult Male. Above bright grass green ; wing coverts and sides of the neck 

 like the back ; lesser coverts rather brighter green, but not forming a bright 

 or distinct shoulder patch ; forehead tinged with yellow ; lores, anterior edge 

 of eyelid, feathers below the eye,, cheeks, chin and throat black ; moustachial 

 streak cobalt ; a line bordering the black throat green, tinged with yellow; 

 quills dusky blackish, externally green like the back, the primaries yellowish 

 towards the tips of the outer webs ; tail dark green, dusky blackish on the inner 

 webs ; under surface of body bright green, more yellow on the foreneck, 

 breast, abdomen, thighs and under tail coverts ; axillaries green with greyish 

 bases ; under wing coverts ashy, washed with yellowish green ; legs and feet 

 dark plumbeous ; bill black ; irides dark-brown. 



Length. 6'2 to 7 inches; wing 3-05 to 3*3; tail 2'6 to 2*65; tarsus 0*65 

 to 0*7 ; culmen 0-75. 



Hab. Borneo, Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, ranging into the extreme 

 south of the Tenasserim Province,. where, at Bankasoon, Mr. Davison obtained 

 the bird. Nothing is known of its nidification. 

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