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Specimens from southeastern Yunnan and the Indo-Chinese coun- 

 tries are indeed smaller than those of the Himalayas (striatus), and 

 Bangs and Phillips's name may properly be used for them. 



PYCNONOTUS FINLAYSONI FINLAYSONI Strickland 



Indo-Chinese Streaked-throated Bulbul 



Pycnonotus Flnlaysoni Strickland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 13, 1844, pp. 

 411-412 ("Probably from some of the Malasian islands"; type locality cor- 

 rected to Malacca, by Hartert, Nov. Zool., vol. 9, 1902, p. 560). 



Pycnonotus flnlaysoni, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1913, 

 p. 26 (Ban Huai Horn) ; 1916, p. 69 (Pha Kho) ; Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 

 1915, p. 166 (listed). 



Pycnonotus flnlaysoni flnlaysoni, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 494 ("Throughout 

 the whole country"). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, 

 p. 170 ("Districts watered by streams which flow into the Me Khong"). 



The streaked-throated bulbul is uncommon and perhaps only locally 

 distributed in the lowlands of Chiang Rai and the provinces east of 

 the Khun Tan chain. An example in Hannover was taken by Eisen- 

 hofer at Pak Pan, February 16, 1912 ; I took specimens at Ban Kiu 

 Nak (Nan Province), at Rong Chiang Laeng (Chiang Rai Prov- 

 ince) , and at Ban Sathan, in the northern part of the French Enclave. 



I believed at one time that this species replaced Pycnonotus b. 

 conradi in the more eastern provinces but have since learned that the 

 two forms occur in more or less the same areas. Strictly speaking, 

 they do not appear together, for, while conradi inhabits the neigh- 

 borhood of villages and cultivation, flnlaysoni keeps to almost unin- 

 habited country. It is not really a bird of the evergreen forest, as 

 was implied by Gyldenstolpe (1913, 1916), but prefers such places as 

 roadsides and clearings, where evergreen jungle has been cut back 

 and succeeded by dense thickets of Ewpatorium and other second 

 growth; on the other hand, it probably never enters the deciduous 

 forest, as conradi may sometimes do. 



Examples from Ban Kiu Nak, April 1, and Ban Sathan, April 28, 

 had the gonads enlarged ; the one from Rong Chiang Laeng, May 1, 

 had them greatly enlarged. 



Gyldenstolpe's specimens had the irides brown; the bill black; 

 the feet and toes plumbeous. 



The adult has the feathers of the front and f orecrown bright yellow 

 (those immediately bordering the lores orange), narrowly edged with 

 olivaceous-brown to give a streaked appearance; the remaining 

 upperparts dull olive-green (brighter on the remiges and rectrices), 

 overlaid with ashy on the posterior crown, nape, and upper part of 

 the mantle ; the lores mixed black and bright yellow ; the ear coverts, 

 chin, and throat streaked with bright yellow and olivaceous-brown, 

 exactly like the front and f orecrown ; the breast and upper abdomen 

 ashy, the feathers with narrow whitish shaft streaks and more or less 



