512 Lieut. H. R. Kelham on 



- RACHYPODius MELANOCEPHALus (Gm.) . The Fan-tailed 

 Bulbul. 



I have specimens of this Bulbul from Malacca, and also 

 shot several in Perak. 



In my note-book is : — 



" Kwala Kangsar, 5th May, 1877 While stopping 



to get a cocoa-nut at a Malay^s hut, some three or four miles 

 from camp, I shot a small Bulbul which was flitting about 

 near the top of a high tree. 



Otocompsa emeria (Linn.). 



I heard of one of these Bulbuls being shot in the Straits, 

 but myself never even saw it there. In South China it is 

 exceedingly plentiful : — 



"Hong Kong, 16th May, 1878. This morning I caught 

 three young Bulbuls on the grass plot behind my quarters. 

 They could scarcely fly, evidently but lately having left their 

 nest. Putting them in a cage outside my window, the old 

 birds soon found them out and brought them food, but made 

 a great fuss if I went near. All day long they kept close to 

 their young, and often settled within a few feet of me ; so I 

 took down an exact description of them. Irides deep crimson ; 

 bill black ; head, crest, moustache-streak, and band down side 

 of neck jet-black ; cheeks white; upper parts brown ; throat 

 and underparts dull Avhite ; under tail-coverts bright crimson. 

 They are common about the gardens in Hong Kong. 



" The young appear to be about a fortnight old, and are 

 able to fly twenty or thirty yards. Their irides are dark 

 brown, upper parts brown, underparts dull white, under tail- 

 coverts chestnut; length 4 inches. They have the white 

 cheeks and dark crest of the mature bird." 



Phyllornis icterocephala. The Malayan Green Bulbul. 



By no means rare in the south of the peninsula — in fact, 

 rather common in the country round Malacca ; but I seldom 

 saw it in Perak. It is very like, but smaller than, Blyth's 

 Phyllornis jerdoni. 



Length 6| inches. Irides brown ; legs plumbeous ; upper 

 parts grass-green, tinged on the nape with yellow ; under- 



