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Colours of soft parts. Iris dark brown, dark plumbeous slate 

 and grey-brown ; bill black ; legs and feet very dark plumbeous, 

 claws horny-brown, sometimes almost black. 



Measurements. Total length about 165 mm. ; wing 68 to 

 78 mm.; tail about 66mm.; tarsus about 15mm.; culraen 12 

 to 13 mm. 



Distribution. Peninsular Burma and Siam to Sumatra. 



Nidification. Nest and eggs collected by Mr. W. A. T. Kellow 

 near Taiping in the Federated Malay States are just like small 

 ones of Otocompsa. The nests were all in low bushes and con- 

 tained two or three eggs which measured about 20-4 x 15*4 ram. 



They seem to breed in April, May and June. 



Habits. Davison found them either singly or in pairs on the 

 outskirts of forest or in deserted clearings. He remarks : " They 

 live, so far as have been observed, entirely upon small berries of 

 various sorts. They are rather shy, and on being alarmed beat a 

 hasty retreat to the forest arid other dense cover. Their note is 

 a sharp, lively chirrup." Mr. Kellow found them very common 

 about Taiping and apparently took many nests there. 



(433) Pycnonotus luteolus. 

 THE WHITE-BROWED BULBUL. 



Hcewatornis luteolus Less., Eev. Zoo}., 1840, p. 354 (India, Bombay). 

 Pycnonotus luteolus. Blanf . & Gates, i, p. 290. 



Vernacular names. Poda-pigli (Tel.) ; Guluguluwa (Ceylon). 



Description. Upper plumage dull olive-green, tinged with ashy 

 on the head and with fulvous on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 wings and tail brown, washed with green on the outer webs of the 

 feathers ; front of forehead, a broad streak from the nostril over 

 the eye and partly over the ear-coverts and an indistinct ring 

 round the eye, white ; lores mingled black and white ; a stripe 

 from the base of the lower mandible and the point of the chin 

 yellow ; lower plumage ashy, tinged and faintly striped with 

 pale yellow, the breast washed with brown ; vent and under tail- 

 coverts pale yellow; under wing-coverts and edge of wing yellow. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris blood-red ; bill blackish or horny- 

 black ; legs dark plumbeous. 



Measurements. Length about 200 mm.; wing 72 to 89 mm.; 

 tail about 80 to 85mm.; tarsus about 22mm.; culmen 15 to 

 17 mm. 



Ceylon birds are certainly smaller than those from India; the 

 wings run from 72 to 83, rarely to 85 mm., those from Travan- 

 core northwards measure from 85 to 89 mm. I can see no 

 corresponding variation in colour and as they overlap in measure- 

 ments, these alone seem hardly well-defined enough to constitute 

 a separate subspecies. 



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