1870.] A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. 313 



narrowly edged with greenish, above there are scarcely any cross 

 bars perceptible ; wing 2 T y ; tail 2£". The bill of scapularis ap- 

 pears in some specimens to be more straight than that of typhia, 

 but there is no difference in its length. It seems pretty constant 

 that the tail of the female force is proportionally longer and the 

 wing shorter, than those of the males. 



This species is not uncommon in Penang, the Wellesley Pro- 

 vince, and farther south about Malacca. The female was de- 

 scribed and figured by Horsfield in his " Researches" from 

 Java. 



58. Phyllornis Javensis, H o r s f . 

 Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. XIII. 



This is a very common species about Malacca- and in the Welles- 

 ley Province. All the males, that I have obtained, had the hinder 

 angle of the eye yellowish, indicating the yellow eye-ring of the 

 female. The old $ has the mustachial streak slightly blue and the 

 shoulder tuft mostly green with only a slight trace of blue, sometimes 

 with scarcely any ; the young $ has the mustachial streak originally 

 green, but it gradually changes to blue, and at the same time also 

 some of the yellow feathers on the throat begin to turn black. Wing 

 in $ 3£ 4 inch ; tail 2 £"—3" ; wing in 2 usually 3f" ; tail2f" ; bill 

 in both about ||", being a little more strongly curved at tip in 

 the S j than in the 9 • 



59. Phyllornts cyanopogot?, T e m m. 

 Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. XIII. 



Five males were obtained in September by my collector in the 

 Wellesley Province. All have the forehead and a gorget on the 

 front breast bordering the black much more conspicuously yellow 

 than shewn in Gould's figure ; wing 3-3£ inch ; tail about 

 21" ; biU at front tf. 



B 1 y t h (Ibis, 1867, III, p. 9,) suggests that for this and the 

 preceding species, characterized by a small shoulder tuft and a bill 

 of the shape of Iora, the name Phyllornis should be restricted, as 

 distinct from J. and Selby's Chloropsis under which he would include 

 the other chiefly smaller species with a very conspicuous blue 

 shoulder tuft. This distinction does not seem to be very important, 



