MICROTARSUS. 495 
insects and I have shot specimens feeding on the cotton-trees 
over-full of such obtained from their great red flowers. 
In most flocks of this birds one or more specimens will be 
found of the Grey-bellied Bulbul. 
(440) Microtarsus melanocephalus fusciflavescens. 
Tur ANDAMAN BLACK-HEADED BULBUL. 
Brachypodius fusciflavescens Hume, §.F.,i, p. 297 (1875)( Andamans). 
Micropus fusciflavescens. Blant. & Oates, 1, p. 295. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from the preceding bird in having the 
whole head dusky olive-green; the black on chin and throat is 
confined to the centre of the latter; the black bars are narrower 
and the abdomen and under tail-coverts are a still brighter yellow. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris bluish-white to pale blue; bill bluish- 
slate to slaty-black ; legs and feet plumbeous. 
Measurements as in the preceding bird. 
Nidification unknown. 
Habits. Davison found it singly or in pairs on the outskirts of 
forest, edges of jungle-tracts and natural openings. 
(441) Microtarsus poiocephalus. 
THE GREY-HEADED BULBUL. 
Brachypus povocephalus Jerdon, Madr. J.L.8., x, p. 246 (1880) 
(Travancore). 
Micropus pheocephalus. Blanf, & Oates, i, p. 296. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Forehead olive-yellow; chin blackish; cheeks 
greyish yellow; remainder of head clear bluish grey; upper side 
of neck, back and scapulars olive-green ; rump-feathers black 
with broad yellow tips; upper tail-coverts and four middle tail- 
feathers bluish grey with dark shafts, the others black, broadly 
edged on both webs and tipped with bluish grey, the basal two- 
thirds of all suffused with olive-green; wings black, all the 
feathers edged with olive-green, the outer webs of the innermost 
secondaries being wholly of this colour; breast, abdomen and 
flanks oil-yellow; under tail-coverts bluish grey. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris almost white to blue; Dill paie slate, 
“pale green” (Davison); legs and feet fleshy tinged with orange 
(Davison). 
Measurements. Rather smaller than IM. melanocephalus ; wing 
about 73 to 78 mm. 
Distribution. Malabar coast ; from Belgaum to South Travan- 
core; Coonoor and Wynaad Hills. 
Nidification. The Grey-headed Bulbul makes a small, compact 
cup-shaped nest, which it places in low bushes in fairly dense 
jungle. The eggs are like those of J. m. melanocephalus and ten 
