368 PYCNONOTID®. 
(385) Alophoixus pheocephalus. 
Tuu CRESTLESS WHITE-THROATED BULBUL. 
Ixos pheocephalus Hartl., Rev. Zool,, p. 401 (1844) (Malacca). 
Alophoivus pheocephalus. Blanf. & Oates, 1, p. 259. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Crown of head and nape blackish, each feather 
edged with bluish-grey; lores whitish; back, rump and upper 
wing-coverts olive-green, the lateral feathers of the rump washed 
with yellow at the tips; upper tail-coverts and tail rufous-brown ; 
wings dark brown, the feathers rufescent on the outer webs; sides 
of the head and neck and a narrow half-collar on the hind-neck 
ashy-grey, darker posteriorly ; chin and throat white; remaining 
lower plumage bright yellow washed with olive on the sides of 
the body ; under wing-coverts yellow. 
Colours of soft parts. “The legs, feet and claws vary from 
fleshy white (sometimes with a pinky tinge) to fleshy yellow; the 
upper mandible from dark plumbeous to dark horny brown ; lower 
mandible and edges of upper mandible pale plumbeous; irides 
snuff-brown, burnt sienna-brown or reddish brown” (//ume & 
Davison). 
Measurements. Length about 200 to 210 mm.; wing 86 to 
95 mm., the female averaging some 5 mm. less than the male; 
tail about 70 to 90 mm.; tarsus about 20 mm.; culmen 14 to 
17 mm. 
Distribution. The extreme South of Tenasserim to Sumatra, 
Java and Borneo. 
Nidification. Nothing recorded. 
Habits. Davison found this bird either singly or in pairs in 
thick forest or thin tree-jungle and, though common, never in 
gardens or clearings. In its general habits it closely resembles 
birds of the genus Criniger. It is never found on the ground. 
Genus MICROSCELIS Gray, 1840. 
The name Hypsipetes by which this genus of Bulbuls has 
hitherto been known is unfortunately preoccupied by Vypsipetes 
(Stephens, Syst. Brit. Ins., ii, p. 188, 1829) and the next name 
applicable is Microscelis of Gray (List Gen. Birds, 1840, p. 28), 
created for M. amaurotis, a Japanese Black Bulbul which cannot, 
I think, be separated generically from our Indian and Burmese 
forms. Haringtonia of Mathews and Iredale seems to me to be 
unnecessary. 
The genus contains a group of Bulbuls characterized by grey 
and blackish plumage, red bills and long, forked tails. The bill is 
slender and about as long as the head, which is furnished with a 
long crest of pointed feathers. The rictal bristles are very short, 
not exceeding a third of the length of the culmen. The wing is 
