28 TIMELIID^E. 



Length. 67 to 6*9 inches ; wing 3*15 to 3*4 ; tail 2*8 to 2-9 ; culmen 0'6. 



Had. British Burmah and Tipperah. Gates (B. Er. Burm.) says it occurs 

 sparingly in Pegu, and has been found near Rangoon and at Tounghoo. Mr. 

 Hume records it from Tonka in the Malay Peninsula, and it has also been 

 found in Dacca. 



440- MicrOpUS phaeOCephalUS (Jerdori), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vi. p. 68. Brachypus poiocephalus, Jerd., Madr. Journ. x. p. 246. Brachy- 

 podiuspoiocephalus, Elyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 576 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 89; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 98. The SOUTH INDIAN or GREY-HEADED BULBUL. 



Lores and forehead olive yellow or siskin green ; crown of head and nape 

 bluish grey ; round the eye and ear coverts olive greenish, the latter washed 

 with grey ; fore part of cheeks olive yellow, the hinder part grey like the 

 throat, which has a black chin spot ; under surface of body yellowish green ; 

 under tail coverts grey ; under wing coverts and axillaries pale yellow; upper 

 surface of body yellowish green ; wing coverts like the back ; greater coverts 

 and quills blackish, externally edged with yellowish ; primaries and their 

 coverts narrowly edged with yellowish ; rump barred black, the feathers black 

 with paler olive yellow tips ; upper tail coverts bluish grey, washed with 

 yellow ; centre tail feathers bluish grey with olive yellow margins, the remainder 

 blackish, tipped with ashy grey and slightly edged with olive yellow. 



Bill greenish horn ; legs reddish yellow ; irides bluish white. 



Length. 6-4 to 7 inches ; wing 2-8 ; tail 2-6 ; tarsus 0-65 ; culmen O'6. 



Hab. South India. Confined, according to Jerdon, to the forests of the 

 Malabar Coast, extending from Travancore to Honore. It is found from near 

 the sea level to 2,000 feet or so of elevation, living in small families and 

 feeding chiefly on small stony fruit. 



Gen. Criniger. Tern. 



Head more or less crested. Bill moderately long, strong and deep ; 

 culmen curved ; rictal bristles long ; nostrils exposed, not hidden by bristles, 

 oval. Membrane of nostril large posteriorly; several long hairs springing 

 from the nape, but not from the centre of the back, tarsus longer than mid 

 toe and claw. 



Head of Criniger barbatus. 



