black bases, flanks with a silky white tuft ; axillaries white ; the under wing 

 coverts the same, but washed with yellowish ; edge of the wing yellow. 



Legs and feet plumbeous blue ; claws black ; lower mandible, gape and a 

 line on each side of upper mandible dark plumbeous blue ; rest of upper 

 mandible black or blackish brown ; irides dark to reddish brown. (Hume.) 



Length. 5'O to 5-2 inches; wing 2-35 to 2*4; tail rS to 1-9 ; tarsus 07; 

 bill from gape 075 ; culmen 0*65. 



The female has the upper plumage dark grass green ; the tail green, 

 narrowly edged with yellow ; lores and sides of the head greenish yellow ; 

 wing coverts brown, broadly edged and tipped with pale yellow ; quills blackish 

 brown, edged with greenish yellow ; ear coverts streaked with yellow ; a large 

 tuft of silky white feathers on the flanks ; under wing coverts white, washed 

 with yellow ; axillaries white. 



Length. 5'O to 5*1 inches ; wing 2*25 ; tail r6 ; tarsus 07. 



Hah, Throughout the Malay Peninsula, and in Borneo and Sumatra. Occurs 

 as a rare straggler in the southern portion of Tenasserim. Mr. Davison 

 procured one specimen in Mergui. It is found chiefly in low brushwood and 

 in mangrove swamps, where it feeds on insects. 



416. ^Sgithina tiphia (Linn.), Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 295 ; 

 Gates, Sir. F. v. p. 157 ; Sharpy Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 7 ; Gales, B. Br. 

 Burm. i. p. 202. Motacilla tiphia, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 331. Motacilla 

 zeylonica, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 964. lora zeylonica, Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 101, 

 No. 467. lora typhia, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 103, No. 468 ; Blyth and Wald., 

 B. Burm. p. 137; Hume, Sir. F. v. p. 428; Anders., Yunnan Exped. 

 p. 660 ; Legge, B. Ceyl. p. 490 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 99. The COMMON 

 DWARF BULBUL. 



Adult Male in summer plumage. Lores, forehead, crown and back black, 

 the feathers of the mantle yellowish white at base and showing through; 

 rump greenish yellow ; upper tail coverts and tail black, also the lesser wing 

 coverts ; the greater coverts black, tipped with white ; the median coverts white, 

 the white tippings forming a double bar across the wing ; quills black ; the 

 primaries narrowly edged with yellow, and the secondaries fringed with whitish 

 at the tips ; sides of the head and neck, lores and eyelids glossy black ; lower 

 edge of eyelids, cheeks, ear coverts, chin, throat, breast and under surface of 

 body deep intense, or bright yellow, fading off into paler or greenish yellow 

 on the lower abdomen, vent, under tail coverts and sides : a large tuft of silky 

 white plumes on either flank; thighs yellowish green, with dark brown 

 bases ; under wing coverts white, washed with yellowish ; axillaries white. 



The female is yellowish green above, with rather more yellow on the head ; 

 mantle long and silky ; tail green, with a narrow yellowish edge ; wings with 

 two bars across ; median coverts dusky green, with broad white tips ; greater 

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