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it: might, like Zrena puella, be termed a bird of the evergreen 
forests. It has the same habits as other members of the genus, 
but the note is quite unlike that of any other species of Brachy- 
podius, with which I am acquainted, being a single soft low whis- 
tle. Those I examined had eaten berries. Usually they are in 
pairs, and I have even found them singly, but in the mornings 
and evenings they may be found in numbers feeding in company 
with other Bulbuls, Orioles, Irenas, &c., in flocks. They are 
very wary, and after being fired at once or twice become so 
wary that it is next to impossible to approach within shot. 
I managed to securea large number of specimens, but this was 
by stationing myself under a tree in fruit in the morning and 
evening with my air gun. 
The following is a resumé of the measurements of a large 
number of specimens taken in the flesh. The sexes do not vary 
in size :— 
Length, 7°0 to 75; expanse, 9°2 to 10:0; tail, 2°7 to 3:25; 
wing, 2°9 to 3:25; tarsus, 0°5 to 0°65; bill from gape, 0:7 to 
0:85 ; weight, 0°8 to 1°15 oz. 
In both sexes the legs are fleshy, strongly tinged with orange ; 
the bill pale green, almost the same shade exactly as the fore- 
head; the irides a clear blue grey, the grey tint predominating 
more or less in different specimens. 
Jerdon’s description of this species was evidently taken from 
a single specimen, and as individuals vary to a considerable 
extent, it will be perhaps as well to re-describe the species. Jer- 
don, moreover, in his description says: ‘ Feathers of the rump 
light yellowish green, broadly streaked with black.”’ This is apt 
to convey a very erroneous impression; the feathers, as in all 
the Brachypodii, are black, very broadly fringed with a lighter 
colour, in this. case by green. The following is a detailed 
description of a fine adult male :— 
Feathers immediately above nostril and forehead bright 
greenish yellow ; the feathers immediately in front of the lores 
are hardly, if at all, tinged with green, the colour being an 
almost pure gamboge yellow; lores, feathers round eye, 
a short streak from posterior angle of eye, most of the feathers 
of the ear-coverts, and a patch at the base of lower mandible, 
dull green, much the colour of the back, but duller; the bases 
of the feathers on lores are black, and this showing through 
gives a blackish appearance to these parts; chin and upper 
throat dull black ; crown, occiput, nape, sides of neck immedi- 
ately behind ear-coverts and lower throat, a rather dark ash 
grey ; interscapulary region, scapulars, upper back, and visible 
portion of closed wing rather dark warm olive green; there is 
the same green on the lower surface, but much lighter in tint, 
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