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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
song; but the ordinary note is harsh. They feed a good deal on fruit and 
the nectar of flowers ; and any large flower-bearing tree will usually contain 
several of these birds. They are not at all shy^ and they may be met with 
in gardens and compounds just as frequently as in deep forests. 
The nest of C. aurifrons does not appear ever to have been found. 
C. jerdoni, an Indian species^ builds a shallow cup-shaped nest_, made 
of fine roots and fibres_, in the fork of a branch at its extreme end about 
twenty feet from the ground. The eggs, generally only two in number, 
are white marked with reddish and purplish brown. 
201. CHLOROPSIS HARDWICKII. 
THE ORANGE-BELLIED GREEN BULBUL. 
Chloropsis hardwickii, Jard. ^ Selhy, III. Orn. ii. App, p. 1 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
jB. Mus. vi. p. 18. Phyllornis hardwickii, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p, 100 ; Bl B. 
Burm. p. 137 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 327 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 99 ; Scully, 
8. F. viii. p. 297. 
Description. — Male. Upper plumage green, washed with fulvous -yellow 
on the head ; lores, the feathers under the eye, the ear-coverts, chin, 
throat and upper breast black ; a broad moustachial streak reaching to the 
end of the ear-coverts cobalt ; remainder of the under plumage orange, 
washed with green on the flanks ; tail dull purple, the inner webs blacker ; 
lesser wing-coverts verdigris-blue ; remaining coverts and the primaries 
black, edged with purple ; secondaries brown on the inner, and green on 
the outer webs ; tertiaries and inner greater coverts entirely green. 
The female has the upper plumage green, the head being o£ the same 
colour as the other parts ; lesser wing-coverts blue ; the other coverts and 
the tertiaries wholly green ; secondaries and primaries brown edged with 
green, the first three primaries with a tinge of blue; tail green; moustachial 
streak cobalt, but paler than in the male ; sides of head and neck, chin, 
throat and upper breast with the whole of the flanks green, tinged with blue 
on the throat ; lower breast, abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts orange. 
Young birds are entirely green without any orange below at first ; traces 
of orange on the abdomen soon make their appearance ; the moustache 
and wing-patch are barely indicated. 
Bill black ; irides brown or dark brown ; feet plumbeous ; claws dusky 
or black. {Scully.) 
Length 7'5 inches, tail 3*1, wing 3-8, tarsus "7, bill from gape -95. The 
female is of the same size. 
C. lazulina, from China, is barely separable from the present species ; 
it has the chin, throat and breast strongly sufi'used with blue. 
