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visible portions of tiie plumage bright green, the concealed portions 

 of the primaries and secondaries in the closed wing dark brown. 



Female. Differs from the male in being rather less brilliant in 

 coloration. 



The young are entirely green on the head ; a small moustachial 

 blue streak is present, and the edgings to the wings are bluish ; 

 the tail is also tinged with blue. 



Bill black ; mouth bluish grey ; eyelids dark brown ; feet plum- 

 beous ; iris brown ; claws horn-colour. The female has the mouth 

 livid brown. 



Length 8 ; tail 2'8 ; wing 3* 8 ; tarsus '7 ; bill from gape 1. 



Distribution. The sub-Himalayan tracts from Garhwal to Dibru- 

 garh in Assam ; a considerable portion of Eastern Bengal and the 

 adjacent States, Ball quoting the following localities as places where 

 it is found : E-ajmehal hills, Midnapur, Manbhum, Lohardugga, 

 Sirguja, Kalahandi, and Goomsur ; the Khasi hills; Manipur; the 

 neighbourhood of Bhamo ; Karen nee : the whole of what recently 

 constituted British Burma, down to Amherst and the Thoungyeen 

 valley. Birds from Kurnaun are very much larger than those from 

 other parts, but otherwise this species is very constant in size and 

 colour throughout its great range. It extends into Cambodia. 



Habits, fyc. This species and all that follow are very similar in 

 habits. They frequent trees, and are regular leaf-hunters, feeding 

 principally on insects. They mimic the calls of other birds, and, 

 notwithstanding their brilliant plumage, they are difficult to detect 

 in trees. They go in pairs or alone. The nest of O. aurifrons does 

 not appear yet to have been discovered. 



Fig. 71. Head of C. malabarica. 



248. Chloropsis malabarica. The Malabar Chloropsis. 



Turdus malabaricus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 837 (1788). 



Phyllorms malabaricus (Gm.), Blyth, Cat. p. 212 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, 



p. 98 ; McMaster, J. A. S. B. xl, pt. ii, p. 212 ; Fairbank, S. F. 



iv, p. 258; Bourdillon, S. F. iv, p. 400; Legge, Birds Ceyl 



p. 488 ; Hume, Cat. no. 464 ; Daviton, S. F. x, p. 387 ; Barnes, 



Birds Bom. p. 190. 

 Chloropsis malabarica (Gm.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 22. 



The Malabar Green Bulbul, Jerd. 



