8 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. VIII. 
CHLOROPSIS AURIFRONS. 
Tur GoLp-FRONTED CHLOROPSIS. 
Phylornis aurifrons, Jerdon’s “ B,I.,” Vol. IL, p. 99 ; Hume and 
Davison, 8. F., Vol. VI., p. 826 ; Hume’s Cat., No. 465 ; 2d., 8. F., 
Vol. XL, p. 184 ; Chloropsis aurifrons, Oates’ “ B. of B. B.,” Vol. L, 
p- 205 ;¢d. * Fauna B. 1.” Vol. L., p. 234. 
Descrrerion.—Forehead and crown golden-orange; chin, cheeks 
and extreme upper throat brilliant purplish-blue; remainder of throat, 
ear-coverts, round the eye, lores, and a narrow line up to the top of the nostrils 
black. An indistinct supercilium and a broad line surrounding the black 
golden; a patch on the wing, consisting of nearly all the lesser coverts, bright 
pale blue; edge of wing rather darker blue; inner and concealed part of 
wing-feathers dark brown; lower aspect of tail lead-colour ; remainder of 
plumage bright grass-green, lighter below and sometimes inclined to an 
emerald tinge. ; 
The female has the gold collar far less developed and often almost absent, 
the blue of the throat mixed with black, and the colour of the crown less vivid. 
The young bird in its first plumage has the head wholly green, a moustachial 
streak of the same colour as the wing-patch in the adult ; chin and throat tinged 
with the same. Primaries and secondaries edged with brilliant greenish-blue ; 
tail suffused with the same, and with the under surface wholly pale dusky-blue, 
A young bird in the Spring of the second year has the forehead golden; the 
upper throat and chin green; the black of the lower throat mixed with green, 
and with only two or three traces of the golden collar. The moustachial streak 
is small, and the wing patch the same. 
Bill black ; gape and base of lower mandible hommy ; mouth bluish ; irides 
light to dark brown ; legs pale, clear to dark, dusky-plumbeous ; the younger 
the bird, the brighter and clearer the colour. 
Male—Length 7°5" to 7°8" ; wing 3°7” to 3°85” ; tail 2°7” to 2:9"; tarsus 
°7" ; bill at front °7” and from gape 1”. 
Female—7'2" to 75" ; wing 3°5" to 3°65" ; tail 2°4” to 2:6", 
NIpIFICATION.—The nest is a rather shallow cup, varying in breadth from 
about 3°5” to about 4” and in depth from about 1°3” to 1°8”, few nests being 
more than 1°5”, It is made of very fine twigs, moss roots and the tendrils of 
climbing plants, outwardly bound together, and also interwoven with grasses, 
moss, cobwebs, and a material which appears to be the inner bark of some tree. 
Some nests have no lining at all, but others are lined with fine grass-stems or, 
less often, with fern and moss roots, One nest taken in 1887 was lined with 
