CHLOROPSIS SONNEKATI, nobis. 

 Sonnerafs Chloropsis. 



PLATE C. 



C. Mas. viridis, loris, gula juguloque nigris ; striga parva maxillari hyaciuthina ; 

 flexuris nitide viridi-coeruleis. 



Fcem. (auct. Temminck) striga hyacinthino obscurior. 

 Phyllornis Mullerii, Temm. PL Col. 



In our 1st. Number, published in 1826, we proposed Chloropsis as a gene- 

 ric appellation for this small and beautiful group, and gave figures of two 

 species. We are now induced to give a third yet unrepresented, to allow us 

 an opportunity of correcting some mistakes that we had unwittingly com- 

 mitted, and to add some additional species. In our Synopsis Specierum, 

 we had confused the synonyms of C. Cochinsinensis and Malabaricus. What 

 we consider their true synonyms, will be found in the synopsis now given ; 

 they are the most nearly allied species in the group, and, from their simi- 

 larity, and that of the females, must have been often confounded. The 

 bird which we figured at Plate V. under the title of Malabaricus, is per- 

 fectly distinct from that species, and apparently very rare. We have only 

 met with two specimens ourselves, and M. Temminck only mentions ha- 

 ving seen three males ; the female is yet entirely unknown ; it will now 

 bear the title of " aurifrons," given to it by the latter ornithologist. In 

 our farther investigation of this group since our first remarks were pub- 

 lished, we have been more and more struck with the close alliance that all 

 the species bear to one another in the shape, colours, and marking, and can 

 hardly conceive a better and more defined form. The females all appear 

 to want the black upon the throat and neck, and to have the colour there 

 of a yellowish or paler green tinge ; on this account, and some other sexual 

 distinctions, we are inclined to think our C. gampsorynchns and the C. zos- 

 ter-ops of the Sumatran collection to be the females of a species of which 



