100 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



Terai. I procured it in Sikhim up to 4,000 feet or so. It has 

 a sweet song, and, like the others, when caged, is quite a mocking 

 bird. 



4G6. Phyllornis Hardwickii, Jard. and Selby. 



Chloropsis, apudJARD. and Selby — BLYTH,Cat. 1284 — Horsp., 

 Cat. 394— C. curvirostris, Swains.— C. chrysogaster, McLell., 

 P. Z. S., 1839— C. auriventris, Guerin, Mag. Zool. 1840, pi. 17— 

 C. cyanopterus, Hodgs. — Saklem-pho, Lepch. 



The Blue-winged Green Bulbul. 



Descr. — Male above green ; the head and neck tinged with 

 yellowish, and a brilliant smalt-blue moustachial streak ; shoulder 

 of the wings verdigris blue ; wings and tail fine violet or purple ; 

 throat and fore-neck black, passing into glossy dark-purple on the 

 breast ; abdomen rich orange saffron. 



Females want the black neck and throat ; the moustachial streak 

 is less vivid, and the lower parts are more mixed with green. 



Bill black ; legs plumbeous ; irides light brown. Length 8 inches ; 

 extent 12 ; wing 3f ; tail 3 ; bill at front \± ; tarsus f. 



This beautiful bird is found in the South-East Himalayas, from 

 Nepal to Bootan, spreading south to the hill ranges of Assam, 

 Sylhet, and Arrakan. In Sikhim I found it from 2,000 feet 

 upwards, most common about 4,000 feet. It has a fine song, and 

 the usual habits of its genus. 



Several other species of Phyllornis are found in Malayana and 

 the eastern island, viz, P. Cochinsinensis, already alluded to ; ictero- 

 cephalus, Temm., P. C. 512, 2, very closely allied to the last, and 

 both having, like Hardwickii, blue wings and tail ; cyanopogon of 

 Malacca; and Sonneratii, J. and S., also from Malacca and the 

 islands, the largest of the group, and with the bill proportionally 

 strong and curved. Bonaparte, in his Conspectus, gives two ad- 

 ditional species, media, Miill., like Sonneratii, but with the bill 

 smaller ; and venusta, Temm., both from Sumatra. 



The next genus, lora, has been considered rather an isolated 

 form, although its relationship to the Bulbuls had been allowed by 

 many" 1 , but the discovery of a fine and large species of this genus, 

 with undoubted affinities for Phyllornis;, has settled conclusively 



