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 352 TIMA-LlIDiE. The female and young have no black on the head; the chin, throat and a ring round the eye are bright yellow and the moiistachial streak is pale and ill-defined.

Distribution. Tenasserim, South of Ye, near Moulmein, Malay Peninsula to Borneo and Sumatra, South-West Siam. Nidification unknown.

Habits. Davison records the habits of this bird as being the same as those of cldorocephala but that it is even more exclusively a forest bird. This bird is only a race of Chloropsis viridis of Java, from which it differs in the tint of the slioulder-patch.


 * Phylhrnis jerdoni Blyth, J. A. S. B., xiil, p. 392 (1844) (Madras).
 * Chloropsis jerdoni. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 238.

Vernacular names. Harrewa (Hind.); Wanna bojamim (Tel.).

Description. — Male. A moustachial streak bright purplish blue; lores, chin, throat and a line from the lores over the moustachial streak black; forehead and a band surrounding the black greenish yellow; lesser wing-coverts very bright malachite-green; remainder of the plumage with the visible portions of wings and tail green.

Colours of soft parts. Iris brown or red-brown; bill black; legs and feet lavender or pale slaty.

Measurements. Length about 190 to 200 mm.; wing 86 to 89 mm.; tail about 75 mm.; tarsus 17 to 18 mm.; culmen about 17 mm.

Female. The black of the male is replaced b}' bluish green and the cheek-stripe is bright greenish blue.

The young are like the female but have no moustachial streak.

Distribution. The Peninsula of India, from Sitapur, Fyzabad and Barti on the North; Baroda and Panch Mahals on the West; the liajmahal Hills and Midnapore on the East down to and into Ceylon.

Nidification. This Chloropsis makes a nest like the nest of the genus, a suiall cradle of soft, tow-like material interwoven with small pieces of grass and other stems, fiue roots and lichen and lined, if at all, Avith a sparse lining of grass. This it places in a fork of an outer branch of some tree, generally between 15 and 25 feet from the ground. They breed from April to August, laying two or, very rarely, three eggs. These are quite unlike those of the other known eggs of the members of the genus. The ground- colour is a white to a very pale creamy or pink sparingly marked with spots, specks, small blotches and short hair-hnes of blackislj, purplish or reddish brown, chiefly disposed about the larger end. The surface is glossless but smooth, the texture fragile and the