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Description. Wliole upper plumage and closed wiugs and tail 

 olive-green, brownish on the crest, which in some specimens is 

 almost a hair-brown ; the feathers of the crown have white stria) 

 M bich are broadest and often yellowish on the forehead, narrowest 

 on the longer crest-feathers, where they become little more than 

 shaft-stripes ; nape, upper back and scapulars broadly striated 

 white, the striations becoming narrower towards the rump and 

 ceasing altogether on the upper tail-coverts ; lores and chin yellow 

 or orange-yellow ; throat paler and duller yellow, the feathers 

 tipped with dusky-brown ; ear-coverts dark brown narrowly 

 streaked with yellowish white ; breast, sides of neck and flanks 

 dark grey-brown broadly striated with yellow towards the 

 abdomen, which is wholly of this colour; vmder tail-coverts 

 yellow; under surface of the tailyeliown'sh green; the greater wing- 

 ooverts are broadly juargined with yellowish on the outer webs. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris reddish brown to Indian-red or 

 bright brick-red; bill dark horny, almost black; legs dark clear 

 plumbeous, according to Davison sometimes dark brown. 



Measurements. Length about 220 mm. ; wing 102 to 112 ram. ; 

 tail 96 to lUS mm.; tarsus about 20 mm.; culmen about 15 to 

 16 mm. 



Distribution. Himalayas, Nepal to Assam both North and 

 South of the Brahmaputra, Chin Hills, Kachin Hills to Yunnan, 

 Manipur and hills of Central Burma to Tenasserim. 



Kothschild has recently shown that Almrus striatiis paulus* 

 described from Yunnaa cannot stand as it is no smaller than 

 those from Sikkim and elsewhere. The birds from Tenasserim 

 possibly average 1 or 2 mm. less in wing measurement but the 

 extremes are much the same, and as I can trace uo difference in 

 plumage there seems to be no sufficient ground for separating 

 them. Bii'ds of this species in abraded plumage differ from 

 freshly plumaged birds far more than is generally the case and 

 this must always be borne in mind when comparing specimens 

 from different areas. 



Nidification. Tlie Striated Green Bulbul breeds between 4,000 

 and y,000 feet, perhaps higher still, over the greater part of its 

 known range, building a cup-shaped nest of roots and tine elastic 

 twigs with a lining of fine grass stems. In some cases a few 

 scraps of moss, spiders' egg-bags and a cobweb or two may be 

 added but in all roots and twigs form the main materials. The 

 site selected is a thick bush or clump of tlie small bamboo which 

 grows in amongst other trees and scrub and in all cases the nests 

 are very well hidden, generally 3 or 4 feet only from the ground. 



The iew eggs Mdiich have been found are of two types— the one 

 like very exceptionally brown eggs of tlie Common Bengal 

 Bulbul, the other with a white ground marked with numerous 

 small freckles and blotches of pinkish red, more sparse towards 

 the smaller end. They measure about 22 '4 x 16-3 mm. It 



* Alc'urus striatus paulus Bangs & Phillips, Bull. Mus. Couip. Zoul., Iviii, 

 p. 1'84. 



