404 PTCNONOXID^. 



is made these hairs will be found, though they are short and not 

 numerous. Although, therefore, some\\hat aberrant, I retain it 

 in the genus lole. Sharpe retained the name Lrocivcla for the 

 otlier species of lole and placed Ixocincla virescens of Blyth in the 

 genus Ifi/psijjetes (Mirroscelis) but in making both these changes 

 he was, of course, quite incorrect. 



Key to Species. 



A. Lower phimaue streaked lole malaccensis, p. 404. 



B. Lower plumage not strealicd. 



«. Crown and upper plumage uniform in 

 colour. 

 a'. Entire lower plumage bright yellow . lole iderica, p. 405. 



b' . Jjower plumage dull yellow lole olivacea, p. 406. 



b. CroAvn distinctly darker and browner 



than the back lole nicabaricnsis, p. 408. 



(418) lole malacceiisis malaccensis. 

 Thi; Stkeaked Bulbul. 



Ilypsipetes vialaccensis Blyth, J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 574 (1845) 



(Malacca). 

 lole vialaccensis. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 283. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Upper plumage, with lesser wing-coverts, brownish 

 green ; greater coverts, wings and tail dark brown, the feathers 

 edged with the colour of the back; ear-coverts brownish green 

 with pale shafts ; lores ashy-grey ; cheeks, chin, throat, breast 

 and sides of the body ashy with broad greyish-white shaft-streaks, 

 fainter on the last-named; abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts 

 white; under wiiig-co\erts and axillaries pale yellow. 



Colours of soft parts. Legs and feet pinkish brown to reddish 

 brown; bill horny-brown or very dark horny-brown ; iris mahogany- 

 brown to litharge-red {Hume 4' Davison). 



Measurements. Length about 230 mm.; wing 109 to 115 mm.; 

 tail about 90 to 95 mm.; tarsus about 18 mm. ; culmen about 

 18 to 20 mm. 



Distribution. Peninsular Burma and Siam and Malay Peninsula. 

 Birds from Cochin Cliina seem identical, whilst those from the 

 Southern Islands are perhaps separable. 



Nidification. Eggs and nest obtained by Mr. W. A. T. Kellow 

 on the 17th June were like those of the next bird. The nest is a 

 small cradle of twigs, leaves and grasses bound by cobwebs to, 

 and interlaced around the twigs of a small forked branch of a bush. 

 The two eggs are white with innumerable freckles of light yellowish- 

 and ninkish-red and measure 23" 1 x lci-9 aTid 22'1 x lO'S mm. 



Habits. Beyond Davison's remarks to the effect that this 

 Bulbul's habits are similar to those of Hemixus m. tickelli, nothing 

 has been recorded. 



