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brown, the inner secondaries and the outer webs of the others 

 rufescent ; tail rufescent, the outer webs tinged with greenish 

 and the outer feathers tipped with whitish ; lores and sides of the 

 head yellow, the latter feathers tipped with dusky ; chin and throat 

 whitish ; lower plumage yellow, the breast and sides of the body 

 tinged with ashy ; under tail- and wing-coverts yellow. 



Colours of soft parts. "Legs and feet pale bluish or pinkish 

 brown or salmon-fleshy ; claws pale plumbeous blue ; lower 

 mandible and edge of the upper pale plumbeous; ridge of culmen 

 and tip of upper mandible black ; rest of the upper mandible dark 

 plumbeous, sometimes horny brown; iris pale umber or snuffy- 

 brown to dark brown " (Hume fy Davison). 



Measurements. Total length about 180 mm. ; wing 70 to 

 77mm.; tail about 70 to 75 mm.; tarsus 15 mm. ; culmen about 

 15 mm. 



Distribution. The extreme South of Tenasserim and S.E. Siam 

 to the South of the Malay Peninsula. The Sumatran and Boruean 

 form has been separated as Tricholestes c. viridis. 



Nidification. Two eggs of the form viridis in the collection of 

 Mr. J. Davidson and taken by a correspondent of Herr M. Kuschel 

 in W. Java are very like the eggs of lole icterica. The ground- 

 colour is a pronounced pink, thickly mottled all over with a 

 darker brownish pink, the mottling only a little darker than the 

 ground-colour, so that at a short distance they look uniform. In 

 shape they are long ovals and they measure about 23*2 x 16*0 mm. 



Habits. Davison records that "This little Bulbul goes about in 

 small parties of five or six, keeping to the brushwood and follow- 

 ing each other about from bush to bush, uttering all the while 

 a soft twittering note. In its habits it approaches much nearer 

 the Timaliine birds than the Bulbuls, like them hunting system- 

 atically the foliage and branches of the brushwood and smaller 

 trees. . . . One specimen I shot was quite alone and was perched 

 on a dead twig, where it kept expanding and closing its tail 

 spasmodically and bobbing about exactly like a Flycatcher. Their 

 food consists almost exclusively of insects, though they do 

 occasionally eat a few small berries. They are very tame birds 

 mild their plumage apparently never in good condition", so that it 

 is impossible ever to make up a really good specimen." 



Genus ALOPHOIXUS Gates, 1889. 



This genus was created by Gates for a species previously placed 

 in the genus Crinic/er. It differs from that genus in having no 

 crest and from Tricholestes in not having such long back-hairs. 

 Bill, wings and tail are very similar to those of Criniger. 



There is but one species at present referred to this genus. 



