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the remaining upperparts bright olive-green, overlaid with gray on 

 the nape and suffused with golden on the outer webs of the remiges 

 and on the rump and upper tail coverts; the rectrices golden-olive, 

 broadly tipped, above and below, with black; the ear coverts ashy 

 gray, sometimes tinged with vinaceous; the chin and throat dark 

 brownish gray; the remaining underparts golden-olive, brighter on 

 the abdomen and under tail coverts. 



PYCNONOTUS ATRICEPS CINEREOVENTRIS (Blyth) 



Burmese Blue-eyed Bulbul 



Brachypodius cinereoventris Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 14, 1845, p. 



576 (Tipperah). 

 Micropus melanocephalus, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Haudl., 1913, 



p. 27 (Phrae). 

 Microtarsus melanocephalus, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 



1916, p. 66 (Phrae) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 496 ("Throughout the whole country"). 

 Brachypodius atriceps major, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1928, p. 569 (Doi Suthep) ; 1929, p. 541 ("Chieng Mai" [=Doi Suthep], 



Chiang Saen Kao). — Deign an, Journ. Siarn Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 



141 (Doi Suthep). 

 Microtarsus atriceps major, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, 



p. 110 (Doi Suthep). 

 Microtarsus atriceps cinereoventris, Greenway, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1940, 



p 177 (Chiang Dao). 



The blue-eyed bulbul is locally common in our provinces, occurring 

 in districts of mixed-deciduous and second-growth evergreen forest, 

 from the level of the plains to a maximum elevation of 3,000 feet. In 

 addition to the localities named above, it is known from Ban Ton 

 Phung and Ban Hai Huai Som. In the Chiang Mai region it is neces- 

 sarily rare and restricted in range to a narrow belt of suitable vegeta- 

 tion on Doi Suthep between 2,700 and 3,000 feet. 



This is a very sociable species, usually seen (and especially at flower- 

 ing trees) in large flocks, the members of which keep up a constant 

 conversation of chirps and other musical calls. 



De Schauensee has recorded (1929) that the irides are clear, light 

 blue (brown in an immature specimen) ; the bill, feet, and toes black. 



In normal plumage, the present form has the uncrested head and 

 the entire neck glossy blue-black; the mantle golden-olive (with black 

 bases to the feathers showing through on the rump), changing to 

 greenish gold on the long upper tail coverts; the primaries wholly 

 black, the secondaries with the inner web black and the outer web 

 greenish gold; the graduated rectrices olive-green, with a very broad, 

 black subapical band and a broad, bright golden-yellow tip; the 

 breast, upper abdomen, and flanks golden-olive, changing gradually to 

 bright golden-yellow on the lower abdomen and long under tail cov- 

 erts ; the under wing coverts golden-yellow. 



