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' BIHDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
203. CHLOROPSIS CHLOROCEPHALA. 
THE BURMESE GREEN BULBUL. 
Phyllornis chlorocephalus, Wald. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vii. p. 241 ; Bl. B. 
Burm. p. 137 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 127 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 323 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 99. Chloropsis chlorocephala, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. 
p. 28. 
Description. — Male. Lores,, feathers under and in front of the eye, 
cheeks, chin and throat black ; forehead and a broad band from eye to 
eye, passing round and encircling the throat pale yellowish green ; front of 
the crown above the forehead and a broad streak passing over the eyes and 
ear-coverts pale green ; a very short moustachial streak cobalt ; crown of the 
head and nape golden green ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts and scapulars 
deep green ; tail blue ; primaries and their coverts black edged with blue ; 
secondaries black on the inner and blue on the outer webs, and edged with 
green; tertiaries and inner greater coverts green tinged with blue; lesser 
coverts glistening smalt-blue; median and greater coverts green tinged 
with blue at the base ; under plumage bright green tinged with yellow on 
the breast. 
In the female the black on the head of the male is replaced by bluish 
green, and the broad yellow band encircling the black is absent; the color- 
ation is duller everywhere, and the moustachial streak is pale bluish green. 
The young are very like the adult female. 
' Bill black ; iris brown ; legs plumbeous ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 7*1 inches, tail 2*7, wing 3*3, tarsus '77 , bill from gape '9. 
C. icterocephala, from the Malay peninsula, is very close to C. chloro- 
cephala, but differs in having the forehead and the band encircling the 
throat pure yellow ; the yellowish green on the front of the crown and over 
the eyes and ear-coverts is absent, and the whole summit of the head is a 
rich golden fulvous. C. jerdoni, from India, is said to have occurred in 
Tenasserim, but its occurrence there is so doubtful that I do not retain it; 
it is of the type of C. chloro cephala, but with the wing edged green 
instead of blue. 
The Burmese Green Bulbul is stated by Mr. Blyth to occur in Arrakan. 
It is abundant in all the higher hills of Pegu where the forest is evergreen, 
but is not, I think, found in the plains. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured 
it in Karennee at 1600 feet elevation. According to Mr. Davison it is 
very common throughout Tenasserim, except on the highest hills ; and 
Capt. Bingham states that it is abundant in the Thoungyeen valley. 
To the south it has been found in the Malay peninsula as far as Kussoom 
and the Salanga Islands^ and in the east it extends to Cochin China. 
Its range to the north is not known, but according to Mr. Blyth it has 
occurred in the Garo hills in Eastern Bengal. 
