;HLOROPSIS GAMPSORHYNCHUS, (nobis). 

 Hook-billed Chloropsis. 



PLATE VII. 



C. viridis, flexuris coeruleis rostro adunco. 



h or the loan of this new and interesting species, as well as for many others, 

 we are indebted to the Zoological Society of London, to which it was pre- 

 sented by our coadjutor Mr Vigors, together with the rest of his valuable 

 ornithological collection. We take the present early opportunity of figuring 

 it, both as being a species yet uncharacterized, and also as differing consider- 

 ably from the type of a genus now proposed by ourselves. 



In C. cochinsinensis, the bill is comparatively slender, and gradually curved 

 towards the tip; in the present species, both mandibles are remarkably 

 strong, the upper much hooked, and the tip projecting over that of the un- 

 der ; the nostrils are wide and expanded ; the tarsi are very short and strong ; 

 the whole form of the bird is more robust, and the general appearance 

 less elegant, than in the others belonging to this group. Its length is seven 

 inches ; the whole plumage is bright emerald-green, paler on the under parts, 

 and appearing to be tinted with a greater or lesser proportion of yellow or 

 green, as the specimen is placed in different shades of light ; the feathers co- 

 vering the shoulders are of a deeper tint, forming a patch of very vivid 

 green ; on the side of the upper mandibles are a few deep ultramarine fea- 

 thers, indicating the blue or purple line, that, like the bright colour on the 

 shoulders, is common through the whole genus ; the bill is deep brownish- 

 black, hooked, and remarkably strong ; the tarsi are only half an inch in 

 length, and, with the feet, are deep bluish-black. 



