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and Borneo; East throughout Siam to Cochin China, Annam and 
Yunnan, 
Nidification. This Bulbul breeds in the plains and lower hills 
up to some 1,500 feet, making the usual Bulbul’s cup-shaped nest 
of leaves, grass and fern roots, fine twigs, etc., lined with fine 
grass and fern roots. It is generally strongly but rather slightly 
made and is placed in bushes or saplings at any height from 3 to 
15 feet from the ground. It is built in small jungle or scrub, 
occasionally in denser forest and sometimes quite close to villages 
and human habitations. The eggs are either two or three in 
number and most of them resemble richly-marked eggs of 
Otocompsa, though they vary a good deal znter se. Fifteen eggs 
average 22-4x16-1 mm.; the extremes are 231165 and 
21:4 )5°2 mm. 
The breeding season is from February to June, 
Habits. Davison remarks that this is the most common form 
of Bulbul in the plains’ portion of Tenasserim. “It does not 
affect forests but is found on the outskirts of it, in scrub-jungle, 
in cleared land and in gardens, giving perhaps the preference to 
the latter. They do not go in flocks but there are generally so 
many about that it is difficult to say whether they are in pairs or 
single. The note isa rather pleasant, feeble whistling chirrup, 
continually uttered whether the bird is sitting or flying. It is a 
very lively bird, always on the move.” It feeds both on berries 
and insects, which it takes on the ground as well as on trees and 
bushes. 
(428) Pycnonotus finlaysoni davisoni. 
Davison’s STRIPE-THROATED BuLBUL, 
Ivus davisoni Hume, 8. F., iii, p. 301 (1875) ¢Arrakan)}>) / = 9 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from the preceding bird in having the 
forehead and crown concolorous except for a narrow yellow 
line just above the lores; the yellow on the throat and chin is 
much less in extent ; the whole head and nape is dull olive with 
faint golden centres to the feathers. 
Colours of soft parts as in P. fi. finlayson?, 
Measurements. A slightly bigger bird than Finlayson’s Bulbul, 
the wing running from 76 mm. to 90 mm. 
Distribution. Arrakan, Chin Hills to Tenasserim West of 
Sittaung River. 
Nidification. Oates obtained two nests in Pegu—cups made of 
stems of weeds, lined with grass and placed low down, one in a 
bush, the other in a creeper about 4 feet. from the ground. In 
both cases there were two eggs, typical Bulbul’s eggs, in every.way, 
