234 CRATEROPODIDJE. 



Genus CHLOROPSIS, Jard. & Selby, 1826. 



The genus Chloropsis contains a large number of birds of bright 

 green plumage which are found in Southern and South-eastern 

 Asia. Seven species occur within Indian limits. 



Chloropsis is always placed among the Bulbuls, but, with the 

 exception of the very short tarsi, there is nothing in common be- 

 tween the two to point to any close relationship. 



In this genus the bill is slender and curved, and about as long 

 as the head; the tip is notched, and the nostrils are oval ; the rictal 

 bristles are weak ; the frontal feathers are advanced up to the 

 nostrils ; the head is not crested ; the wing is rounded, and the tail 

 is short and square ; the tarsi are very short, shorter than the 

 middle toe with claw. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Forehead rich orange-yellow. 



a'. Chin and throat bright blue C. aurifrons, p. 234. 



b'. Chin and throat black C. malabarica, p. 235. 



b. Forehead greenish or yellowish. 



c ' . Abdomen orange-brown C. hardwickii, p. 236. 



d'. Abdomen green. 



a". Outer webs of primaries blue C. chlorocephala, p. 237. 



b" . Outer webs of primaries green. 

 '". A bright patch of colour on the 



wing-coverts. 

 a 4 . Moustachial streak a mere short 



narrow line C. zosterops, p. 238. 



6 4 . Moustachial streak broad, and 



occupying the whole cheek . . C. jerdoni, p. 238. 

 b'", No bright patch of colour on 



wing-coverts C. cyanopogon, p. 239. 



247. Chloropsis aurifrons. The Gold-fronted Chloropsis. 



Phyllornis aurifrons, Temm. PL Col. 484, fig. 1 (1829) ; Blyth, Cat. 

 p. 212 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 258 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 99 ; Godw.- 

 Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 106 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 129 ; 

 Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 660 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, 

 p. 326 ; Hume, Cat. no. 465 ; id. S. F. xi, p. 184. , 



Phjllornis hodgsoni, Gould, Birds Asia, iii. pi. 15 (1861) ; Bl $ 

 Wald. Birds Burm. p. 137. 



Chloropsis aurifrons (Temm.}, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 20 ; Gates, 

 B. B. i, p. 205 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 595. 



The Gold-fronted Green Bulbul, Jerd. ; Subz-harewa, Nepal. ; Hurriba, 

 Beng. ; Skalem-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Male. The forehead and front of crown orange- 

 yellow ; lores, round eye, ear-coverts, and lower throat black ; chin, 

 cheeks, and upper throat purplish blue ; a faint superciliuru con- 

 tinued down the sides of the neck, then widening and passing round 

 the black of the throat, so as to form a collar, yellow ; lesser wing- 

 coverts and bend of the wing verdigris-blue ; the whole remaining 



