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IOLE. 407 
were taken in May well inside thin jungle of mixed bamboo and 
secondary growth, thin forest or deserted cultivation patches 
inside deep forest and all were placed over or close to game- 
tracks. 
The eggs are in type like those of ictertca but darker and more 
handsome, some closely approaching speckled eggs of Molpastes in 
general appearance. ‘They measure about 22°6 x 16°3 mm. 
Habits. This Bulbul seems to be nowhere common; I never 
saw it but in pairs or singly, a rather secretive, quiet bird, feeding 
on the higher bushes and thin tree-tops but not, apparently, 
frequenting the more dense and humid tree-forest. It is said to 
be more often met with in flocks in Pegu, where it does some- 
times enter quite heavy forest. Beyond the j jarring “ chir” made 
by the birds caught in nooses, I have not heard it utter any call. 
It is found ane the level of the plains up to some 2,000 feet. 
(421) Jole olivacea cinnamomeoventris. 
Tur Trenassprim OLive-BuLBuUtL. 
Tole virescens cinnamomeoventris Stuart Baker, Bull, B. O.C., xxxvu, 
p. 16 (1917) (Tenasserim). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. This race differs from the last in being darker and 
more ruddy and less green above; it is also duller and less yellow 
below, the throat and fore-neck being grey, only faintly tinged with 
yellow ; the under tail-coverts are cinnamon, this colour often 
extending on to the belly. 
Colours of soft parts. ‘Iris dark; maxilla blackish, mandible 
grey; feet fleshy-brown” (ZH. G. Herbert). ‘‘Ivides clear grey, 
‘dark slaty, salmon-pink or golden-brown” (Davison). 
Measurements. About the same as in the last; wing 73 to 
80 mm., in one 82 mm. 
Distribution. Peninsular Burma and Siam extending as far 
North as Karenni and Central West Siam. Robinson and Kloss 
identify birds from Cochin China and Annam as belonging to this 
subspecies. One of their specimens, a male from Annam, is as 
much as 84 mm. in wing measurement. 
Nidification unknown. 
Habits. According to Davison “This is a forest bird but oceur- 
ring also in thin tree-jungle and even entering well-wooded 
cardens. It is met with singly or in pairs, foraging about the 
trees and living chiefly on berries, and never, I believe, descending 
to the ground. They are mither lively birds, moving about a 
reat deal and having a pleasant soft whistling note, something 
like that of Ja os finlaysoni, but distinguishable at once.” 
