12 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. VIII. 
CHLOROPSIS HARDWICEII. 
THE ORANGH-BELLIED CHLOROPSIS. 
Phyllornis hardwickii, Jerdon’s “B. of 1,” Vol. IL, p. 100; 
Hume’s Cat., No. 460 ; Chloropsis hardwickii, Oates’ ““ B. of B. B.,” 
Vol. I., p. 206 ; éd., “ Fauna of B. L., Birds,” Vol. I, p. 236. 
Description.— Male.—Whole upper plumage, tertiaries and greater coverts 
next the back rather bright green; the forehead, above the eye, down the neck 
tinged strongly with yellow, lores, the ear-coverts and behind them on the 
_ sides of the neck, dead black ; chin, throat and upper breast black, velvety im 
appearance, and strongly glossed with deep purply-blue, moustachial streak 
bright dark ultramarine. Tail above purply-blue, the inner webs dusky black ; 
lesser wing-coverts verdigris-blue ; other coverts black, edged purple ; primaries 
the same, secondaries black on the inner and green on the outer webs ; flanks 
ereen ; remainder of lower plumage bright deep orange. 
Female.—A moustachial streak bright pale cobalt; lesser wing-coveris 
the same as in the male; primaries and secondaries brown, the former very 
narrowly, the latter broadly, edged green ; remainder of wings and whole upper 
plumage green ; flanks and sides of the abdomen and breast green; centre of 
lower breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts orange. 
Young birds in their first plumage are wholly green, there being only a faint 
indication ef the blue on the lesser wing-coverts. 
First a cobalt moustachial streak appears, then the orange belly, &c., im 
patches, together with patches of black on the breast. As the black develops, 
the lesser wing-coverts assume their proper colour, and the moustachial streak 
deepens into the ultramarine blue of the adult, and, finally, the yellow on the 
head appears in the autumn of the second year, with the bright deep tints 
on the wing and tail. 
Bill black ; irides vary considerably; in some they are almost a bright red- 
brown, in others dull and almost black, and they range between these 
extremes; lees, plumbeous-blue, brightest and clearest in the young, and dull 
and dark in old birds. 
Length 7°3” to 7°6”; tail °8” to 8:1”; wing 3°7” to 3:95”; tarsus “71”; bill 
at front °67” and from gape *98". 
The female seems to be but little smaller than the male, and I have measured 
none under 7°25” and from that up to 7°5”, the wing varying from 3°6” to 3°75". 
Nipiricatron.—There is practically no difference between the nests of this 
bird and those of C. aurifrons, though two were rather deeper than any I have 
seen of that bird, one measuring 1°8” and the other 2°05” in depth. They 
build in just the same sort of places, but, generally, rather higher, and I have 
seen no nest under about 25 fect from the ground, ; 
