ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ORNITHOLOGY 
thence over Central and Upper India to the Sub-Himalayan 
territories, and eastward into Asain, Sylhet, and Arakan. The 
south-eastern portions of the Sub-Himalayan ranges, with the pro- 
vinces of Asam, Munipur, Sylhet, and Arakan, likewise contain 
the Phylloi'nis hardwickii ; and in Arakan we find abundantly the 
Phyllorms cochinchinensis ( moluccensis of Gray) extending thence 
southward through the Burmese countries over the Malayan pen- 
insula and archipelago. These five species constitute a particular 
sub-type of the genus with meliphagous bill, and the bend of the 
wing ultra-marine blue. Two others inhabit the Malay countries, 
which have the bend of the wing green like the rest of the plumage, 
and a bill resembling that of Iora (a nearly affined genus which 
has precisely the same geographical distribution). These are 
Phyllorms sonneratii (Jardine and Selby, mulleri of Temminck, 
and the young of which is Chloropus gampsorhynchus , Jardine 
and Selby, Chloropsis zoster ops, Vigors, and Turdus viridis , 
Horsfield), and Phyllorms cyanophagon, Temminck (the young of 
which is Chloropus mysticalis, Swainson). No others appear to 
be known, though such may exist in the easternmost parts of 
southern Asia. 
Mr. Jerdon states of Phyllorms jerdoni — “ I have seen a nest 
and eggs of this species in possession of S. N. Ward, Esq. It is 
a neat but slight cup-shaped nest, composed chiefly of fine grass, 
and was placed near the extremity of a branch, some of the nearest 
leaves being, it was said, brought down and loosely surrounding it. 
It contained two eggs, white, with a few claret-coloured blotches. 
Its nest and eggs, I may remark,” continues Mr. Jerdon, “ show au 
analogy with those of the Orioles.”* 
* Phylloi'nis is now placed among the Tenuirostres, near to the Meliphaginse ; many 
of the nests of which show a great deal of weaving in their structure, and are often 
suspended near the extremity of a branch, supported by the leaves being woven into 
the structure of the nest. Is not Ch. jerdoni , Jerd. Illust. Ind. Orn. syn. with Ch 
malabaricus (Gmel.) ? 
