6. HEMIXFS. 51 



Adult male. Like the female in colour. Total length 8-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-8, wing 4, tail 3-7, tarsus 0-65. {Mas. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



Ohs. Mr. Hume states that Hemixas brunneiceps of Lord Walden 

 is his II. hihlebranti ; and this appears induhitable ; but it is equally 

 unfortunate that the description of the former gentleman should give 

 the head as "black" while Lord Walden 's title implies that it is 

 brown. As a matter of fact it is neither really black nor really brown, 

 but is blackish brown in tint. 



Hildebrandt's Brown-eared Bulbul occurs through the hills of 

 Northern Teuasserim, from the Karen hills north of Tonghoo to 

 close to Pahpoon. 



3. Hemixas davisoni. 



Hemixus davisoni, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. Ill ; Hume ^- Davis. Str. 

 F. 1878, p. 2'J9 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 98. 



The lores, feathers at base of lower mandible, under the eye, and 

 under rather more than half the ear-coverts deep brown, almost black, 

 but not so black as in H.flacala and U. lilhlehrandti ; ear-coverts 

 very pale satinj- brown, a shade paler than in the other two species, 

 I think ; entire cap, back, wings, and tail a most beautiful rich full 

 brown, deepest on head and mantle, slightly paler on nape, and with 

 a decided grey tinge on the rump, forming a well-defined rump-band; 

 the winglet and first six primaries and their greater coverts and the 

 tail-feathers without a trace of any yellow margin ; the later pri- 

 maries, secondaries, and tertiaries, and their greater coverts narrowly 

 margined with bright olive-yeUow ; these margins are about one third 

 of the width of those on the wing of H. flavala, and one half the 

 width of those of H. hildebrandti, giving even the closed wing a very 

 difterent appearance. Chin and throat pure white, very conspicuously 

 limited by the dark streak on either side, more so than in the other 

 two species, the streak being somewhat longer ; sides of neck, behind ' 

 ear-coverts, upper breast, sides, and flanks a delicate ash-grey, rather 

 a different shade to that of the other two species ; middle of lower 

 breast, abdomen, vent, and lower tail-coverts white, with a more or 

 less faint ashy shade, chiefly in streaks and patches ; wing-lining 

 white, with a faint yellow tinge near the carpal joint, as in the other 

 two species. Bill and claws black ; legs and feet reddish brown ; irides 

 crimson-lake; Length S-o inches, bill from gape 0-95, wing 4-04, 

 tail 3-6, tarsus 0-6. (Hume.) 



Davison's Brown-eared Bulbul is known at present only from the 

 Ceutral-Tenasserim hill-regions. 



4. Hemixus castanonotus. 



Hemixus castanonotus, SwiuJioe, Ibis, 1870, p. 2-j1, pi. ix. fisr. 1 ; id. 

 P. Z. S. 1871, p. 369 ; David Sf Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 143. 



Adult. General colour above dull chestntit-red, the upper tail- 

 coverts brown, edged with dusky olive : tail-feathers also brown, 

 margined with dusky olive near the base of the feathers ; least and 



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