60 TI3IKLIID3:. 



olive-yellow ; lores, chin, and a moustacliial line on each side of the 

 throat dull white, mottled with grey bases. 



The llufous-bellied liulhiil inhabits the hill-ranges of the Hi- 

 malayas, ranging eastwards into Assam, the Khasia, Aracau, and 

 Tijiperah hills. 



«. Ad. sk. Assam (McCklland). India Museum. (Type of spe- 



cies.) 

 b. Ad. sk. Bootan (Pemberton). India Museum, 



c-e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types oi Hypsipetes vindis.) 

 f. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



g-i. Ad. sk. Nepal {B. II. Hodgson). India Museum. 

 A-, /. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Piuwill [P.l. 



m. J juv. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.j. 



7. lole tickelli. 



Hypsipetes tickelli, Bh/th, J. A. S. Beng. xxiv. p. 275 ; Grm/, Hand-l. 

 'B. i. p. 272, no. 3988 ; Blyth Sf If 'aid. B. Burm. p. 1.3-3 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1878, p. 296, 1879, p. 98. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-green, a little duller on 

 the mantle, which has indistinct pale shaft-lines to the feathers ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the quills blackish brown, externally 

 olive-yellow, a little brighter than the back ; tail-feathers olive- 

 yellow ; head and nape earthy brown, streaked with narrow shaft- 

 lines of dull white ; lores and feathers below the eye hoary M'hite ; 

 ear- coverts pale brownish red, streaked with white shaft-lines, the 

 hinder cheeks resembling the ear-coverts ; throat ashy, broadly 

 streaked with white, the feathers being white with ashy margins ; 

 abdomen and centre of body white ; fore neck and breast pale 

 earthy brown, with white shaft-lines to the feathers ; sides of body 

 and thighs faintly washed with olive ; under tail-coverts pale olive- 

 vellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow ; quills olive- 

 brown below, yellowish buff along the inner webs ; " bill and legs 

 dark brown ; iris brown" (Wardlaw Ramsay, MS.). Total length 

 S-5 inches, culmen U-95, wing 3-95, tail 3-8, tarsus 0-65. {Mus. R, 

 G. WanUau' Ramsay.) 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length S-5 

 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-95, tail -1, tarsus 0-65. 



Mr. Hume, describing a series from Tenasserim, writes as fol- 

 lows : — " The colours of the soft parts varied a good deal in different 

 specimens : legs and feet fleshy pink, dark fleshy pink, light purplish 

 brown, pale pinkish brown, or pale reddish brown ; bill black, horny 

 black, or dark homy brown ; irides wood-brown, deep red-brown, 

 light red, or crimson." {Stray Feathers, 1878, p. 297.) 



TickeU's Bulbul replaces the foregoing species in the Burmese and 

 Tenasserim hiUs, ranging as far south as Tavoy. 



a. d ad. sk. Karen Nee, .3500 feet, March 11, Lieut. R. G. "Wardlaw 



1874 (-R. G. W. B.). Ramsav. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Karen Nee, 4000 feet, March 13, Lieut. R.'G. Wardlaw 



1874 (B. G. W. B.). Ramsay. 



