. Birds. Birds. OHLOEOPSIS. 235 visible portions of tiie plumage bright green, the concealed portions of the primaries and seoondai'ies in the closed wing dark brown. Female. Diilers from the male in being rather less brilliant in coloration. The young are entirely green on the head ; a small nioustachial blue streak is present, and the edgings to the wings are bluish; the tail is also tinged with blue. Bill black ; mouth bluish grey ; eyelids dark brown ; feet plum- beous ; iris brown ; claws horn-colour. The female has tlie mouth livid brown. Length 8 ; tail 2'8 ; wing .3-8 ; tarsus "7
. Birds. Birds. OHLOEOPSIS. 235 visible portions of tiie plumage bright green, the concealed portions of the primaries and seoondai'ies in the closed wing dark brown. Female. Diilers from the male in being rather less brilliant in coloration. The young are entirely green on the head ; a small nioustachial blue streak is present, and the edgings to the wings are bluish; the tail is also tinged with blue. Bill black ; mouth bluish grey ; eyelids dark brown ; feet plum- beous ; iris brown ; claws horn-colour. The female has tlie mouth livid brown. Length 8 ; tail 2'8 ; wing .3-8 ; tarsus "7 ; bill from gape 1. Distribution. The sub-Himalayan tracts from Grarhwal to Dibru- garh in Assam; a considerable portion of Eastern Bengal aud the adjacent States, Ball quoting the following localities as places where it is found: Rajmehal hills, Midnapur, Manbhum, Lohardugga, Sirguja, Kalahandi, and Goomsur ; the Khdsi hills; Manipur; the neighbourhood of Bhamo ; Karennee ; the whole of what recently constituted British Burma, down to Amherst and the Thoungyeeu valley. Birds from Kumaun are very much larger than those from other parts, but otherwise this species is very constant in size and colour throughout its great range. It extends into Cambodia. Habits, 6[e. This species and all that follow are very similar in habits. They frequent trees, and are regular leaf-hunters, feeding principally on insects. They mimic the calls of other birds, and, notwithstanding their brilliant plumage, they are difficult to detect in trees. They go in pairs or alone. The nest of G. aurifrons does not appear yet to have been Fig. 71.—Head of C. ma, 248. Chloropsis malabarica. The Malabar OMoropsis. Turdus malaharicus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 837 (1788). Phyllornis malaharicus (Gm.), Blyth, Cat. p. 212 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 98; McMaster, J. A. S. B. xl, pt. ii, p. 212 ; Fairhanh, S. F. IV, p. 258; Bourdillon, S. F. jv, p. 400; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 488; Hume, Cat. no. 464; Daviion, S. F. x
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