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C. lazulina, from China, is barely separable from the present 

 species ; it has the chin, throat, and breast strongly suffused with 

 blue. 



Distribution. The Himalayas and their bases, from Mussooree to 

 Dibrugarh in Assam ; the Khasi hills ; Manipur ; the Toungngoo 

 hills ; Karennee ; the slopes of Muleyit mountain in Tenasserim. 

 C. hardwickii is found at all levels, apparently up to 5000 or 6000 

 feet. It occurs on the mountains of Perak in the Malay peninsula. 



250. Chloropsis chlorocephala. The Burmese Chloropsis. 



Pkyllornis cochinchinensis (Lath.), apud Blyth, Cat. p. 213; Godw.- 

 Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 270 ; xliii, pt. ii, p. 180. 



Phyllornis chlorocephalus, Walden, A. M. N.H. (4) vii, p. 241 (1871); 

 Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 137 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 127 ; Hume $ Dav. 

 S. F. vi, p. 323 ; Hume, Cat. no. 463 bis ; Bingham, S. F. ix, 

 p. 183 ; Oatcs, S. F. x, p. 211 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 184. 



Chloropsis chlorocephala (Wald.}, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 28; 

 Oates, B. B. i, p. 208 ; Salvador^ Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, 

 p. 595. 



Coloration. Male. Lores, feathers under and in front of the 

 eye, cheeks, chin, and throat black ; forehead and a broad band 

 from eye to eye passing round and encircling the throat pale 

 yellowish green ; front of the crown above the forehead and a 

 broad streak passing over the eyes and ear-coverts pale green ; a 

 very short moustachial streak cobalt ; crown of the head and nape 

 golden green ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and scapulars deep 

 green ; tail blue ; primaries and their coverts black, edged with 

 blue : secondaries black on the inner and blue on the outer webs, 

 and edged with green ; tertiaries and inner greater coverts green 

 tinged with blue ; lesser coverts glistening smalt-blue ; median and 

 greater coverts green, tinged with blue at the base ; under plumage 

 bright green, tinged with yellow on the breast. 



Female. The black on the head of the male is replaced by 

 bluish green, and the broad yellow band encircling the black is 

 absent ; the coloration is duller everywhere, and the moustachial 

 streak is pale bluish green. 



The young are very like the adult female. 



Bill black ; iris brown ; legs plumbeous ; claws horn-colour. 



Length 7 ; tail 2'7 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus '75 ; bill from gape '9. 



C. icterocephala, from the Malay peninsula, is very close to 

 C. chlorocephala, but differs in having the forehead and the band 

 encircling the throat pure yellow ; the yellowish green on the front 

 of the crown and over the eyes and ear-coverts is absent, and the 

 whole summit of the head is a rich golden fulvous. 



Distribution. The Garo and Khasi hills ; Dimapur on the Dhan- 

 siri river in Assam ; Cachar ; Manipur ; Arrakan ; Pegu ; Tenas- 

 serim ; Karennee. The range extends to Cochin China. 



