21. PTCN0N0TTT3, 15o 



33. Pycnonotus pusillus. (Plate X.) 



Pycnonotiis simplex (nee Less.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 263 (ex Kithl, MS, 



in Mils. Li/(/d.). 

 Pycuonotus, sp., Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 270, no. 3953. 

 Pycnoootus pusillus, Salrad. Ucc. Born. p. 200; Sharpe, Ibis, 187G, 



p. 38; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 307. 

 Ixus pusillus, Hume, Sir. F. 1878, p. 312; id. Sir. F. 1.870, pp. G2, 



98. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-brown, inclining slightly 

 more to rufesccnt brown on the lower back and rump ; head a little 

 more dusky olive-brown than the back ; least Aving-coverts olive- 

 brown; median and greater coverts brown, with a faint olive 

 tinge on the oiiter webs ; primaries dark brown, margined with 

 pale olive externally ; the secondaries lighter brown, with olive 

 margins ; upper tail-coverts umber-brown, slightly rufescent ; tail- 

 feathers umber-brown, with a slight margin of olive, the tips of the 

 outer feathers narrowly whity brown ; lores, ear-coverts, and sides 

 of face ashy brown ; throat dull white, with a slight pinkish gloss ; 

 fore neck, breast, and sides of body olive-brown, the former parts 

 rather ashy, the flanks a little browner ; centre of the abdomen, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts yeUow, the latter a little mottled in 

 appearance, having the outer webs light brown tipped with duU 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts olive-brown, rather more yellowish 

 olive near the edge of the wing ; axillaries dull yellow ; quills 

 brown below, yellowish along the inner web ; " bill black ; nostrils, 

 gape, and eyelids orange-buff; feet dusky olive ; iris red " ( Wallace) ; 

 " gape and base of lower mandible, shelf above nostrils, and oph- 

 thalmic ring vivid orange-yellow" (Davison); "eyelid chrome- 

 yellow " (Everett). Total length 6-5 inches, culmcn Q-oo, Mang 2-85, 

 tail 2-9, tarsus 00. 



Young, Much more dingy and browner than the adidt, the sides 

 of face brown ; the throat and breast far less ashy tha'a in the old 

 birds. 



The Small Olive Bulbul occurs in Borneo, Sumatra, and the Ma- 

 layan peninsula, ranging into Southern Tenasserim, where it occurs 

 only in the neighbourhood of the Pakchan, and is there very rare. 



a. (S ^d. sk. Sarawak. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



b,c. .Iuv.sk. Sarawak. Henry Everett, Esq. fC.'. 



d. S ad. sk. Paku, Sai-awak. Heniy Everett, Esq. [C.'. 



('. (S ad. sk. Puak, Upper Sarawak. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Lumbidau, N.W. Borneo. Plugh Low, Esq. [C.]. 



y. Imm. sk. Sumatia. Purchased. 



34. Pycnonotus leucogrammicus *. 



Pycnonotus leucogi'ammicus, S. Midi. Tidschr. Kederl. Indie, 1835, 

 ■p. 362; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237; id. Iland-l. B. i. p. 2G9, 

 no. 3936. 



Ixus leucogrammicus, Bp. Cottsp. i. p. 264. 



* Type examined in the Leiden Museum. 



