404 PTCNONOTIDjE. 



is made these hairs will be found, though they are short and not 

 numerous. Although, therefore, somewhat aberrant, I retain it 

 in the genus lole. Sharpe retained the name Lrocincla for the 

 other species of lole and placed Lvocincla virescens of Blytli in the 

 genus Hypsipetes (Microscelis) but in making both these changes 

 he was, of course, quite incorrect. 



Key to Species. 



A. Lower plumage streaked lole malaccensis, p. 404. 



B. Lower plumage not streaked. 



o. Crown and upper plumage uniform in 



colour. 

 a'. Entire lower plumage bright yellow . lole icterica, p. 405. 



b'. Lower plumage dull yellow lole olivacea, p. 406. 



b. Crown distinctly darker and browner 



than the back lole nicobarimsis, p. 408. 



(418) lole malaccensis malaccensis. 



THE STREAKED BULBUL. 



Hypsipetes malaccensis Blyth, J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 574 (1845) 



(Malacca). 

 lole malaccensis. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 283. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Upper plumage, with lesser \ving-coverts, brownish 

 green ; greater coverts, wings and tail dark brown, the feathers 

 edged with the colour of the back ; ear-coverts brownish green 

 with pale shafts ; lores ashy-grey ; cheeks, chin, throat, breast 

 and sides of the body ashy with broad greyish-white shaft-streaks, 

 fainter on the last-named; abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow. 



Colours of soft parts. Legs and feet pinkish brown to reddish 

 brown; bill hornv-brownor very dark horny-brown ; iris mahogany- 

 brown to litharge-red (Hume $ Davisori). 



Measurements. Length about 230mm.; wing 109 to 115mm.; 

 tail about 90 to 95 mm.; tarsus about 18mm.; culmen about 

 18 to 20mm. 



Distribution. Peninsular Burma and Siam and Malay Peninsula. 

 Birds from Cochin China seem identical, whilst those from the 

 Southern Islands are perhaps separable. 



Nidification. Eggs and nest obtained by Mr. W. A. T. follow- 

 on the 17th June were like those of the next bird. The nest is a 

 small cradle of twigs, leaves and grasses bound by cobwebs to, 

 and interlaced around the twigs of a small forked branch of a bush. 

 The two eggs are white with innumerable freckles of light yellowish- 

 and ninkish-red and measure 23- 1 x ltf'9 and 22-1 x 16-5 mm. 



Habits. Beyond Davison's remarks to the effect that this 

 Bulbul's habits are similar to those of Hemixus m. tickelli, nothing 

 has been recorded. 



