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and axillaries pale yellow ; legs and feet pinkish brown to reddish brown ; bill 

 horny brown ; irides mahogany brown or litharge red. (Hume and Davison.) 



Length. 9 inches; wing 4*4 ; tail 3-7; tarsus 07; oilmen 0-95. 



The female is smaller, and alike in colour. 



Hab. Hills south of Mergui in Tenasserim ; southwards to the Malayan 

 Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, and, according to Dr. Tiraud, Cochin-China. 

 Davison states that the habits of this bird is not unlike those of lole tickelli. 



Gen. lole. Blyth. 



General characters same as those of Hemixus. Bill long and rather broad, 

 broader than high at the nostrils; wings as in Hemixus; tail- rounded; 

 feathers of the head pointed, and forming a more or less distinct crest. There 

 is no banded tuft of feathers on the lower back as in Pinarocichla. (Sharpe.) 



Head of lole viridescens, 



433. lole viridescens, Blyth., Ibis, 1867, p. 7; id., Blyth and 



Wald., B. Burm. p. 133; Hume andJlav., Str. F. 1878, pp. 315, 516; Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1879, p. 98 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi.p. 56 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. 

 I. p. 177, lole virescens, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 573. The SMALL 

 OLIVE BULBUL. 



Above dull olive or olive brown, the head darker and with the feathers 

 pointed ; wings dark brown, edged on the outer iveb with the colour of the back or 

 a little brighter ; upper tail coverts and tail the same but with a rufescent tinge ; 

 lores and an indistinct eyebrow, also the chin, throat, breast and flanks, olive - 

 yellow ; ear coverts a little darker; abdomen brighter yellow ; under tail coverts 

 and thighs fawn-brown ; under wing coverts and axillaries pale yellow ; iris 

 brown ; eyelids grey ; legs and claws pinkish brown ; bill bluish horn colour. 



Length. 6'8 to 7-25 inches; wing 3 to 3*25; tail 2-82 to 3*25; tarsus 

 0-62 to 0'68 ; culmen 0-7 to O'8. 



The female is alike in size and colour. 



Hab. Arrakan and the Khasia and Tipperah Hills to the Tenasserim Pro- 

 vinces. (Sharpe.) Oates says the Olive Bulbul is plentiful in Pegu on the 

 spurs of the Pegu Hills and in the forests of the adjacent plains, except in the 

 dry portion near Thayetmyo and Prome, where it appears to be absent. It 

 extends up the Sittang Valley to Tounghoo, and further east in the Tsankoo 



