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The Green Fruitsuckers. 
inner webs, which are narrowly edged with yellow; lores yellowish, 
as well as the eyelid; sides of face light green, tinged with yellow 
on the cheeks; under surface of body light green, slightly paler on 
the centre of breast and abdomen; throat yellowish; thighs pale 
yellow; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellowish green; quills 
dusky below, light yellow along the inner webs ; ' bill leaden ; legs 
greenish leaden; iris hazel ' (Alfred Everett). Total length 7.8 
inches, culmeu 0.8, wing 3.65, tail 3, tarsus 0.75. (Mus. R. G. 
Wardlow iiamsay)." (B.M.C.). 
Adult male "(type of species). Similar to the female. Total 
length 7.5 inches, culmen 0.95, wing 3.65, tail 3, tarsus 0.75. 
(Mus -R. G. Wardlow Ramsay)." 
Range. " The island of Zebu or C'ebu, in the Phillipinei 
Archipelago, is as yet the only recorded habitat for the Yellow - 
winged Green Bulbul." (B.M.O.). 
Blue-fronted Green Fruitsucker {C. venusta). 
Adult male "(Sumatra type of species). General colour above 
bright grass green, a little duller on the crown; wing coverts like 
the back ; a little brighter green on the edges, the least seriesr 
greenish cobalt, forming a shoulder spot; the edge of the wing also 
tinged with the same greenish cobalt; primary coverts and quills 
dusky brown, externally grass-green, brighter on the margins of the 
primaries, which are ashy towards the tips of the outer webs, the 
outermost primaries bluish ; upper tail-covets brighter green than the 
back, tail feathers blue, greenish near their bases; forehead purplish 
blue, the eyebrow and ear-coverts being a little lighter and more 
cobalt-blue; lores blue-black; feathers below the eye, cheeks, and< 
sides of throat, as well as the chin, bright purplish blue; remainder 
of the throat blackish; the chest bright orange, separated from, thei 
black throat by a shade of purplish ash-colour; sides of neck and 
sides of chest yellowish green ; remainder of under surface light 
green, deeper green on the vent and under tail-coverts; under wing- 
coverts and axillaries white, tinged with green, more especially on 
the outei edge of the wing; quills dusky brown below; whitish along 
the edge of the inner web. Total length 5.5 inches, culmen 0.65, 
wing 2.75, tail 2.15, tarsus 0.65 (Mus. Lugd.)" (B.M.O.). 
Adult female. Similar to the male in most respects, but 
distinguished at once by the colour of the throat, which is blue, of 
the same shade as the forehead, eyebrow, sides of face and ear- 
coverts. The purplish-blue colour which ornaments the face of the 
male is absent in Jhe hen bird; the breast also is a little more yellow 
than the rest of the underparts, but there is no orange as in the* 
male. Total length 5.6 inches, culmen 0.7, wing 2.7, tail 2.2, 
tarsus 0.65 {Mus Lugd.)" (B.M.C.). 
" The Blue-fronted Green Bulbul is at present only known 
from the typical sepcimens in the Leyden Museum. The species is 
one of the smallest and most beautiful of the genus, and it is ap- 
