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brown, the inner secondaries and the outer webs of the cthers 
rufescent; tail rufescent, the outer webs tinged with greenish 
and the outer feathers tipped with whitish ; lores and sides of the 
head yellow, the latter feathers tipped with dusky ; chin and throat 
whitish; lower plumage yellow, the breast and sides of the body 
tinged with ashy ; under tail- and wing-coverts yellow. 
Colours of soft parts. ‘Legs and feet pale bluish or pinkish 
brown or salmon-fleshy ; claws pale plumbeous blue; lower 
mandible and edge of the upper pale plumbeous ; ridge of culmen 
and tip of upper mandible black ; rest of the upper mandible dark 
plumbeous, sometimes horny brown; iris pale umber or snuffy- 
brown to dark brown” (Hume § Davison). 
Measurements. Total length about 180 mm.; wing 70 to 
77mm.; tail about 70 to 75 mm.; tarsus 15mm.; culmen about 
15 mm. 
Distribution. The extreme South of Tenasserim and S.E. Siam 
to the South of the Malay Peninsula. The Sumatran and Bornean 
form has been separated as T'richolestes c, viridis, 
Nidification. I'wo eggs of the form viridis in the collection of 
Mr. J. Davidson and taken by a correspondent of Herr M. Kuschel 
in W. Java are very like the eggs of ole ictericu. The ground- 
colour is a pronounced pink, thickly mottled all over with a 
darker brownish pink, the mottling only a little darker than the 
ground-colour, so that at a short distance they look uniform. In 
shape they are long ovals and they measure about 23-2 x 16-0 mm. 
Habits. Davison records that ‘This little Bulbul goes about in 
small parties of five or six, keeping to the brushwood and follow- 
ing each other about from bush to bush, uttering all the while 
a soft twittering note. In its habits it approaches much nearer 
the Timaline birds than the Bulbuls, like them hunting system- 
atically the foliage and branches of the brushwood and smaller 
trees.... One specimen I shot was quite alone and was perched 
on a dead twig, where it kept expanding and closing its tail 
spasmodically and bobbing about exactly like a Flycatcher. Their 
food consists almost exclusively of insects, though they do 
occasionally eat a few small berries. They are very tame birds 
and their plumage apparently never in good condition, so that it 
is impossible ever to make up a really good specimen.” 
Genus ALOPHOIXUS Oates, 1839. 
This genus was created by Oates for a species previously placed 
in the genus Cringer. It differs from that genus in having no 
crest and from Tricholestes in not having such long back-hairs. 
Bill, wings and tail are very similar to those of Criniger. 
There is but one species at present referred to this genus. 
