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Above, of a uniform yellowish olive-green, darker on the crown ; 
tail blackish brown, the outer feather tipped with dingy white ; ear- 
coverts streaked with white ; lores, chin, and throat dingy white ; 
the rest of the under parts dingy white mixed with yellow ; the 
feathers of sides of neck, breast, belly, and flanks deeply margined 
with olive-green ; under wing-coverts bright clear yellow. Length 
7 inches ; of wing, 3^ inches ; of tail, 3^ inches ; bill to frontal 
feathers, and width -^^ of an inch ; to gape, and tarse ^ an 
inch- The above description is from a specimen in the Collection 
of John Grould, Esq. 
S93. HYFSIPETES NICOBABIENSIS, Moore. 
Ixocincla virescens, BlytJi, Journ. A. S. Beng. XIY. 
p. 575. 
Hypsipetes virescens, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XY. pp. 51, 
370 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 207. Bonap., 
a G. Av. p. 261. 
a. b. c. Nicobars. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
S. nicohariensis. " Plumage of a uniform olive-green above, the 
crown infuscated, or of a brownish-nigrescent hue ; throat and breast 
dingy-whitish, a little tinged with yellow ; the rest of the lower parts 
more deeply and conspicuously tinged with yellow ; bill dusky, with 
yellow tomiae, and elsewhere an appearance of its becoming ultimately 
wholly yellow ; the tarsi plumbeous. The nestling tertiaries, and 
the outer webs of the nestling primaries, are of a dingy chestnut- 
colour ; and there is a shade of the same upon the tail. The same 
appears to be the case with the young of H. malaccensis ; and the 
two species considerably resemble at first sight ; but the present 
may readily be distinguished by its infuscated crown and its un- 
streaked throat and breast." 
" Length about 8^ inches ; of wing, from 3^ to nearly 4 inches ; 
and tail 3^ inches ; bill to gape, 1 inch, in some \ more ; tarse, f of 
an inch ; the tail is a little graduated, but inclines to assume the true 
Hypsipetes shape. The bill is rather shorter than H. malaccensisj 
and the coronal feathers tend less to assume the pointed form." 
— (Blyth.) 
Genus Phyllornis, Bote, I sis (182-). Temm., Text de PL 
Col. 484. 
Chloeopsis, Jard. et Selhy, III. Orn. Text to t. 7 (1826). 
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