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daries externally olive yellow, forming a longitudinal band down the wing; 

 the primaries only slightly edged with dull yellow on the outer web ; tail dark 

 brown, edged with olive yellow near the base of the outer web ; head crested 

 with pointed hair-like feathers ; lores dusky ; ear coverts bronze brown ; below 

 the eye and cheeks black ; chin, throat, centre of abdomen and vent white ; 

 breast, sides of neck and flanks light grey ; under wing coverts and axillaries 

 white, the latter washed with yellow ; bill black ; feet dusky ; irides dark 

 reddish brown. 



Length. 7-2 to 8 inches; wing 3*85; tail 3*55; tarsus 07 to 07$; 

 culmen 075. 



Hal. The Himalayas from between Simla and Mussoorie eastward to 

 Bhootan and apparently to the head of the Assam Valley. Found also in the 

 Khasia Hills and British Burmah. It has been recorded from Arrakan by 

 Blyth, and Gates procured specimens from the hills in that Division. Dr. 

 Anderson got it in Ponsee on the Kakhyen Hills. It extends through the 

 Indo-Burmese countries into Assam. Jerdon records it from Darjeeling, and 

 Sharpe from Nepaul. Jerdon says it associates in small parties, feeds on 

 berries and insects, and has a loud warbling note. 



430. Hemixus hildebrandti, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p, 508; 



Wald. in Blyth, B. Burm. p. 133 ; Hume, Str. F. v. p. iii ; Hume and Dav., 

 Sfr. F. vi, p. 299; id., viii. p. 98; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 50; 

 Oates, B. Burm. i. p. 176. HILDEBRANDT'S BROWN-EARED BULBUL. 



" Adult Female (type of H brunneiceps, Wald ; Karin Hills, 2,ooO feet, 

 January loth, 1875, R- G. Wardlaw-Ramsay). General colour above dark 

 ashy grey, washed with brown on the back ; upper tail coverts and tail brown, 

 the feathers edged with dull olive yellow ; the tail feathers white along the 

 inner web ; wing coverts blackish brown, the median series slightly, and the 

 greater coverts and quills broadly margined with yellow, imparting a yellow 

 aspect to the wing ; primaries hoary grey towards the ends of the outer webs ; 

 crown of head and nape blackish brown ; lores, feathers below the eye and 

 the fore part of the cheeks black, the hinder part of the cheeks grey like the 

 sides of the neck ; ear coverts light earthy brown, with an ashy brown lustre 

 contrasting with the adjacent parts ; throat white, as also are the abdomen, 

 thighs and under tail coverts ; foreneck, breast and sides of the body ashy 

 grey ; under wing coverts and axillaries white, faintly washed with yellow ; bill 

 black ; legs light brown or pinkish brown; irides lake or lake brown. "(R. G. 

 Wardlaw-Ramsay; MS.) 



Length. 7-5 inches; wing 3-9; tail 3*65; tarsus o'6; culmen 075. 

 (Sharpe.) 



The adult male is like the female in colour, and larger. 

 Length. 8'5 inches, with a wing of 4*0 and tail 37. 



