380 PYCNONOTIDE. 
Description. Whole upper plumage and closed wings and tail 
olive-green, brownish on the crest, which in some specimens is 
almost a hair- brown; the feathers of the crown have white striz 
which 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; under tail-coverts 
yellow; under surface of the tail yellowish green; the greater wing- 
coverts are broadly margined 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 mm.; 
tail 96 to 108 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. 
Rothschild has recently shown that Aleurus striatus paulus* 
described from Yunnan 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 no difference in 
plumage there seems to be no sufficient ground for separating 
them. Birds 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. The Striated Green Bulbul breeds between 4,000 
and 8,000 feet, perhaps higher still, over the greater part of its 
known range, building a cup-shaped nest of roots and fine 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 the 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 tew eggs which have been found are of two types—the one 
like very exceptionally brown eggs of the 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 
* Alcurus striatus paulus Bangs & Phillips, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lviii, 
p. 284. : 
