PHYLLORNIS CYANOPOGON, Temm.
All Green Phyllornis.

Phyllornis cyanopogon, Temm. Pl. Col. 512. fig. 1.—Less. Traité d’Orn., p. 301.—Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. Asiat.
Soc. Calcutta, p. 213.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 124, Phyllornis, sp. 6.—Moore in
Proc. of Zool. Soc., part xxii. p. 280.
Malabaricus, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., vol. xii. p- 957.
Burong Daun of the Malays in Sumatra, Raffles.
Phyllornis mystacalis, Moore in Proc. of Zool. Soc., part xxii. p. 280.
cyanopogon, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., vol. xiv. p. 564. :
Chloropsis mysticalis, Swains. in Lard. Cycl., Anim. in Menag., part iii. p. 96.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds,
vol. 1. p. 124, Phyllornis, sp. 7.
————— eyanopogon, Jard. and Selby, syn. spec. Chloropsis in Ill. Orn., vol. ii. text to pl. 100. sp. 6.

 

No confusion need ever exist as to the identity of the bird here represented, since it differs from all its
congeners in the absence of any blue or greenish blue on the shoulder, and in the almost uniform green
colouring of its entire plumage, which is only relieved in the male by the black colouring of the throat and
the usual stripe of blue springing from the base of the lower mandible.

The Phyllornis cyanopogon, which must rank as one of the smaller members of the genus, Is undoubtedly
the bird described under the name of Phyllornis mysticalis by the late Mr. Swainson, who appears not to have
been aware of the loealities-in which it is found, but which we now know to be Malacca, and the Malay
countries generally. Most of the specimens received in Europe are sent from Singapore. Temminck states
that it is also found in Sumatra, but not in abundance.

The sexes of this species, like those of all the other members of the genus, may be at once distinguished
by the absence of any black colouring on the throat of the female.

The male has the general plumage grass-green above and paler beneath; lores, chin, and throat deep
velvety black, within which a narrow stripe of blue descends from the angle of the lower mandible; inner
webs of the primaries and secondaries brownish black ; tail green above, beneath slaty brown; bill black ;
irides brown ; feet olive-grey. ;

The female differs in having the throat green instead of black, with, in some specimens, a slight blue

moustache.
The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size, on the Ceropegra Cumingrana.