HEMIXUS. 377 
Measurements. This is the largest race of the three, having a 
wing between 106 and 105 mm. 
Distribution. Salween and Karen Hills. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. Three eggs sent 
me with the bird from Karen Hills measure 2271 x17-°0mm. The 
nest is in appearance just like that of Z/. fl. flavala and was said 
to have been placed in a thick bush in scrub-jungle. 
(394) Hemixus macclellandi macclellandi. 
Tur RuFous-BELLIED BULBUL. 
Hypsipetes macclellandi Horsf., P. Z.S., 1889, p. 59 (Assam). 
Hemixus macelellandi. Blanf, & Oates, 1, ps 260. 
Vernacular names. Chinchiok-pho(Lepcha); Chichiam(Lepcha) ; 
Dao-bulip-gadeba (Cachari). 
Description. Forehead, crown and nape bright vandyke-brown, 
the shafts pale reddish white, giving a streaky appearance ; 
remainder of upper plumage, wing-coverts and inner secondaries 
olive-green, brightest and sometimes more yellow on the upper 
tail-coverts ; tail bright olive-green ; quills brown edged with 
olive-green ; lores sind cheeks grey or grey and white ; ear-coverts, 
sides of neck, breast. and flanks chestnut ; Abdomen! white, more 
or less suffused with rufous ; under tail-coverts yellowish rufous. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris hazel, red-brown to red; bill, upper 
mandible dark blue-grey, culmen, tip and base of lower mandible 
dusky, remainder fleshy-white ; legs dull yellowish- to purplish- 
brown. 
Measurements. Total length about 240 mm.; wing 106 to 
110 mm.; tail about 110 mm.; tarsus about 19 mm.; culmen 
20 mm. 
Distribution. Himalayas from Mussoorie to E. Assam both 
North and South of the Brahmaputra River, Chin Hills, 
Manipur, Lushai and Arrakan. 
Nidification. The Rufous-bellied Bulbul breeds between 3,000 
and 7,000 feet, from the end of May to the beginning of August. 
The nest is a large, rather shallow cup of grass, camnoe leaves, 
shreds of bark and long roots which are wound round the 
branches of the horizontal fork from which it is always suspended. 
It is generally an untidy, loosely-built nest but very strong. 
The lining is of fine grasses only, very rarely a few roots being 
added. The site selected is the outer branch of a tree at some 
height between 20 and 40 feet from the ground, the chosen tree 
standing either on the outskirts of forest, in scattered tree and 
bamboo jungle or sometimes in dense forest when this is broken 
by a stream or some natural clear space. 
The eggs are generally two only in number and are very like 
those of the genus Microscelis but on the whole are duller, less 
