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Measurements. This is the largest race of the three, having a 

 wing between 100 and 105 mm. 



Distribution. Sahveen and Karen Hills. 



Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. Three eggs sent 

 me with the bird from Karen Hills measure 22*1 x 17'0 mm. The 

 nest is in appearance just like that of II. fl.flavala and was said 

 to have been placed in a thick bush in scrub-jungle. 



(394) Hemixus macclellandi macclellandi. 



THE KUFOUS-BELLIED BULBUL. 



Ht/psipetes macclellandi Hovsf., P. Z. S., 1839, p. 59 (Assam). 

 Hemixus macclellandi. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 265. 



Vernacular names. Chinchiok-plio (Lepcha); (?/MV'am (Lepcha); 

 Dao-lndip-gadeba (Cachari). 



Description. Forehead, crown and nape bright van dyke-brown, 

 the shafts pale reddish white, giving a streaky appearance; 

 remainder of upper plumage, wing-coverts and inner secondaries 

 olive-green, brightest and sometimes more yellow on the upper 

 tail-coverts; tail bright olive-green; quills brown edged with 

 olive-green ; lores and cheeks grey or grey and white ; ear-coverts, 

 sides of neck, breast and flanks chestnut ; abdomen white, more 

 or less suffused with rufous ; under tail-coverts yellowish rufous. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris hazel, red-brown to red ; bill, upper 

 mandible dark blue-grey, culmen, tip and base of lower mandible 

 dusky, remainder fleshy-white ; legs dull yellowish- to purplish- 

 brown. 



Measurements. Total length about 240 mm. ; wing 106 to 

 110 mm.; tail about 110 mm.; tarsus about 19 mm.; culmen 

 20 mm. 



Distribution. Himalayas from Mussoorie to E. Assam both 

 North and South of the Brahmaputra Eiver, Chin Hills, 

 Manipur, Lushai and Arrakan. 



Nidification. The Eufous-bellied Bulbul breeds between 3,000 

 and 7,000 feet, from the end of May to the beginning of August. 

 The nest is a large, rather shallow cup of grass, bamboo leaves, 

 shreds of bark and long roots which are wound round the 

 branches of the horizontal fork from which it is always suspended. 

 It is generally an untidy, loosely-built nest but very strong. 

 The lining is of fine grasses only, very rarely a few roots being 

 added. The site selected is the outer branch of a tree at some 

 height between 20 and 40 feet from the ground, the chosen tree 

 standing either on the outskirts of forest, in scattered tree and 

 bamboo jungle or sometimes in dense forest when this is broken 

 by a stream or some natural clear space. 



The eggs are generally two only in number and are very like 

 those of the genus Microscelis but on the whole are duller, less 



