THE BULBULS OF NORTH CACHAR. 15 
The male several times uttered a cry exactly like one of the lower notes of 
the large Racket-tailed Drongo-shrike, and for some moments I thought that 
it was one of these birds calling, nor did I find out my mistake, until I shot 
the bird which uttered it and saw that there were no others in the tree. 
CHLOROPSIS JERDONI. 
JERDON 'S CHLOROPSIS. 
Phyllornis jerdoni, Jerdon’s “ B. of I.,” Vol. IL., p. 97 ; Hume’s 
Cat., No. 463 ; Chloropsis jerdoni, Oates’ “ Fauna of B. I., Birds,” 
Wolk Wy p. 238); zd., Hume's “ Nests and Hegs,” Vol. I., p. loo 
(2nd Hd.). 
Description.— Hale.—Whole visible plumage, with the exceptions noted 
below, bright grass-green, paler below and brightest on the head, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts ; shoulder-patch, formed by the lesser wing-coverts, bright 
smalt-blue, moustachial streak bright purplish-blue or ultramarine, chin and 
throat, lores, and over the moustache, black surrounded by yellowish, com- 
mencing from the forehead and continuing through the eyes downwards. 
The female has no black, and the moustachial streak is paler and inclined to 
greenish-blue. 
The young are wholly green. 
Nipirication.—If I confine my notes on this subject to those nests taken 
in North Cachar, I can give practically no information beyond what is already 
known, for, most undoubtedly, the bird is not an inhabitant of these hills, and 
the few which have been seen are only the progeny of tame birds let loose. 
As far as I can ascertain, the original birds, some three or four, were brought 
up to Gunjong by some sepoys in, or about, the year 1883, and released when 
the sepoys left the stockade. The first bird I ever saw was shot by Mr. Hughes, 
of the Frontier Police, at Gunjong, and two more birds were obtained by me 
that same year. 
In 1886 I found a nest containing three eggs, and this is the only one I have 
actually taken in North Cachar itself. It was just like those described as 
belonging to C. aurifrons, and was built in a small tree quite close to the cotton 
tree, on which the first bird was shot. 
The whole of my eggs, including the three found in Gunjong, average 
*91” X60", but I have only had a very small series pass through my hands, and 
out of this series two pairs were abnormally large, the four eggs measuring 
between *1” and 1:06” in length and ‘68” and °7” in. breadth, 
Deducting these four eggs, the remaining nine average only °86” x °58” 
even narrower than the dimensions given by Oates (vide “Nests and Eggs”). 
