233 CBATEROPODID^E. 



251. Chloropsis zosterops. The Malachite-shouldered 

 Chloropsis. 



Chloropsis zosterops, Vigors, App. Mem. Life Raffl. p. 674 (1830); 



Sharps, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 24 ; Gates, B. $. i, p. 207. 

 Phyllornis sonneratii (Jard. Sf Selby), apud Blyth, Cat. p. 213. 

 Phyllornis javensis (Horsf.}, apud Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 136 j Hume 



# Dav. S. F. vi, p. 324 j Hume, Cat. no. 463 ter. 



Coloration. Male. The whole upper plumage, wing-coverts, 

 and tertiaries bright green; a patch on the lesser wing-coverts 

 malachite-green; primaries and secondaries dark brown, broadly 

 edged with bright green ; tail green, the inner webs of all but the 

 middle pair of feathers brown towards the outer edge ; feathers 

 above the nostrils, the lores, and a line produced narrowly over the 

 eye, the cheeks, chin, and throat black ; ear-coverts and a band 

 along the black of the throat on either side a paler green than the 

 upper plumage ; a short narrow moustache cobalt ; lower plumage 

 bright green. 



Female. No black on the head ; the chin, throat, and a ring 

 round the eye are bright yellow, and the moustacnial streak is blue 

 and indistinct. 



Young birds resemble the female. 



Legs, feet, and claws pale to dark plumbeous ; bill black, base of 

 lower mandible sometimes brown; irides varying brown, dark 

 wood-brown, lake or crimson ; eyelids blackish grey (Davisori). 



Length 8-5 ; tail 3 ; wing 3'9 ; tarsus -75 ; bill from gape 1-1. 



The closely allied C. viridis, Horsf., from Java, may be distin- 

 guished by the colour of the shoulder-patch, which is turquoise- 

 blue. 



Distribution. Tenasserim, south of Ye near Mouknein; also 

 in the Malay peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra. 



252. Chloropsis jerdoni. Jerdon's Chloropsis. 



Phyllornis jerdoni, Blyth, J. A S. B. xiii, p. 392 (1844) ; id. Cat. 



p. 212 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 259 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 97 ; Hume, N. 



$ E. p. 294 ;' Ball, S. F. vii, p. 215 ; Hume, Cat. no. 463 ; Legge, 



Birds Ceyl. p. 485 ; Reid, S. F. x. p. 451 ; Barnes. Birds Bom. 



p.!89. B ' 

 Chloropsis jerdoni (Blyth}, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 25; Oates in 



Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 155. 



The Common Green Bulbid, Jerd. ; Harrewa, Hind. ; Wanna bojanum, 

 Tel. 



Coloration. Male. A moustachial streak bright purplish blue ; 

 lores, chin, throat, and a line from the lores over the moustachial 

 streak black; forehead and a broad band surrounding the black 

 greenish yellow ; lesser wing-coverts very bright malachite-green ; 

 the remainder of the plumage, with the visible portions of the 

 closed wings and tail, green. 



