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Female. The black of the male is replaced by pale bluish green, 

 and the cheek-stripe is bright greenish blue. 



The young resemble the female, but have no moustachial streak. 



Iris brown ; bill black ; legs and feet pale blue (Hume Coll.}. 



Length 7'5 ; tail 2-9 ; wing 3'5 ; tarsus '7 ; bill from gape '9. 



."Distribution. The peninsula of India, from Sitapur, Fyzabad, 

 and Basti on the north ; Baroda and the Panch Mahals on the 

 west ; the Eajmehal hills and Midnapur on the east down to Cape 

 Comorin and Ceylon. 



Habits, <Sfc. Breeds from April to August, constructing a shallow 

 cup-shaped nest of vegetable fibres and fine roots and stems of 

 weeds at the extremity of one of the upper branches of a tree 

 some 20 feet from the ground. The eggs, two in number, are 

 whitish marked with black or dark shades of brown ; they mea- 

 sure -86 by -6. 



253. Chloropsis cyanopogon. The Blue-whiskered Chloropsis. 



Phyllorms cyanopogon, Temm. PI. Col. 512, fig. 1 (1829) ; Blyth, 

 Cat. p. 213 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 410 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, 

 p. 325 ; Hume, Cat. no. 463 quat. 



Chloropsis cyanopogon (Temm.), Sharpest. B. M. vi, p. 32; Gates, 

 B. B. i. p. 209. 



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

 sides of the neck bright green ; the forehead tinged with yellow ; 

 wings dark brown, broadly edged with bright green ; tail green, 

 edged with brown on the inner webs ; lores, cheeks, chin, and 

 throat black ; a line over the lores and eye brighter green than the 

 other parts ; a short moustachial streak cobalt ; a line bordering 

 the black throat green tinged with yellow ; lower plumage light 

 green. 



Female. No black on the chin and throat, the moustachial 

 streak duller blue, and the feathers round the eye conspicuously 

 lighter than the crown. 



The young resemble the female, but the moustachial streaks are 

 absent or barely indicated. 



Legs and feet dark plumbeous : bill black ; iris dark brown 

 (Davisoii). 



Length 7 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 3*3 ; tarsus '7 ; bill from gape '8. 



Distribution. This species has occurred at the extreme southern 

 point of Tenasserim. It is found in the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, 

 and Borneo: 



Genus IRENA, Horsf., 1821. 



The genus Irena contains some of the most beautiful birds known, 

 of which one species only is found within our limits. 



The position of Irena appears to be in this subfamily, its rela- 

 tionship with the Bulbuls, with which it is generally placed, being 



