406 PTCNONOTlDjE. 



It is said to have a soft, mellow whistle and to feed on insects,, 

 seeds and certain fruit. It is found in small flocks in the non- 



lole olivacea. 



lole olivacea olivacea is an inhabitant of Singapore but there are 

 several geographical races found within the limits of the present 

 work, one of which, virescens, has been accorded the status of a 

 species and the other two until recently ignored entirely. 



Key to Subspecies. 



A. Under tail-coverts yellow /. olivacea virescens, p. 406. 



B. Under tail-coverts cinnamon. 



a. Wing under 82 mm I. o. cinnamomeoventris, p. 407.. 



b. Wing- over 82 mm I. o. lonnbergi, p. 408. 



(420) lole olivacea virescens. 

 THE OLIVE BULBUL. 



lole virescens Blyth, J. A. S. B., xiv, p. 573 (1845) (Arrakan) t 

 Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 284. 



Vernacular names. Daobulip-gurrmo (Cachari). 



Description. Lores and short eyebrow olive-yellow ; ear-coverts 

 dark olive ; remainder of upper plumage from forehead to rump 

 olive-green ; upper tail-coverts and tail rather bright rufous- 

 brown ; sides of the neck olive-brown ; whole Odder-surface from 

 chin to rent yellow, more or less suffused with olive-yellow; 

 wings dark brown, the coverts and inner secondaries broadly, the 

 remaining feathers narrowly, edged with rufescent olive-brown. 



Colours of sof c parts. Iris brown or red-brown ; eyelids grey ; 

 bill bluish-horn, the mouth flesh-colour; legs and claws pinkish 

 brown. 



Measurements. Length about 185 to 190 mm. ; wing 76 to 

 82 mm.; tail about 85 mm.; tarsus about 18 mm. ; culmen about 

 15 mm. 



Distribution. Cachar, Sylhet, Tippera and the plains and lower 

 hills of Western Burma us far South as Pegu. 



Nidification. There is apparently nothing recorded about the 

 nesting of this Bulbul beyond my own notes in ' The Ibis ' and 

 Bombay Natural History Society's Journal (1892, p. 6). The nests 

 are compact, well-made cups composed of a few dead leaves and 

 tiny elastic twigs well interwoven with and bound together l>y 

 long strips of what looks like the inner bark of some tree. They 

 were all, with one exception, in horizontal forks, the branches of 

 which were incorporated in the sides of the nest about two-thirds 

 up. The lining was in each case of black fern roots and the long 

 red tendrils of a small yellow ground-convolvulus. All my nests 



