THE GOLD-FRONTED GREEN BULBUL. 
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Genus CHLOROPSIS, Jard. & Selhy. 
200. CHLOROPSIS AURIFRONS. 
THE GOLD-FRONTED GREEN BULBUL. 
Phyllornis aurifrons, Temm. PL' Col. 484. f. 1; Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 99; Huyne, 
S. F. iii. p. 129 ; Anders. Yunnan JExped. p. 660 ; Hume 8f Bav. S. F. vi. p. 326 ; 
Hume, S. F. viii. p. 99. Phyllornis hodgsoni, Bl. 8r Waid. B, Burm. p. 137. 
Chloropsis aurifrons, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B, Mus. V\. p. 20. 
Description. — Male. Forehead and front of crown orange-yellow ; lores^ 
round eye^ ear-coverts and lower throat black; chin_, cheeks and upper 
throat purplish blue ; a supercilium continued down the sides of the neck, 
widening and passing round the black of the throaty forming a collar, 
yellow j lesser wing-coverts and bend of the wing cobalt-blue ; the whole re- 
maining visible portions of the plumage bright green, the concealed portions 
of the primaries and secondaries in the closed wing dark brown. 
The female hardly differs from the male, except in being rather less 
brilliant in coloration. 
The young are entirely green on the head ; a small moustachial blue 
streak is present, and the edgings to the wing are bluish j the tail is also 
tinged with blue. 
Bill black ; mouth bluish grey ; eyelids dark brown ; feet plumbeous ; 
iris brown ; claws horn-colour. The female has the mouth livid brown. 
Length 7 '7 inches, tail 2" 8, wing 3 "8, tarsus '7, bill from gape 1. The 
female is of the same size. 
The Gold-fronted Green Bulbul is spread throughout Arrakan and Pegu, 
but appears to be confined to the plains and lower hills. In Tenasserim, 
according to Mr. Davison, it is common as far south as Amherst ; and 
Capt. Bingham states that it is abundant in the Thoungyeen valley. 
Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in Karennee. 
It is doubtful whether this species, as asserted, occurs in the Malay 
peninsula and Sumatra; but it extends easterly to Cambodia and Cochin 
China. 
To the north it is diffused through the Indo-Burmese countries, Bengal 
and the sub-Himalayan region up to the Jumna river. 
This species is the best known of the genus, all the members of which 
have the same habits. They are solitary or go in pairs when feeding, and 
their food consists of the various insects which infest leaves. They search 
the leaves assiduously, and the colour of their plumage causes them to be 
little noticed. The male bird frequently sits on the summit of a tree and 
gives utterance to a series of notes which at times becomes a rather sweet 
