PYCNON 7 OTUS. 39 



Length. 7-8 to 8 inches; wing 3-3 to 3'6 ; tail 3-2 to 3-5; tarsus 0-9; 

 culmen 0*75 to 0*8. 



Hab. The southern part of Tenasserim, through the Malay Peninsula 

 to the Islands of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. According to Dr. Tirand, it is 

 one of the commonest birds in Cochin-China. Mr. Davison, who collected 

 specimens, is quoted by Gates (B. Br. Burm) to the effect that it is abundant 

 in the Island of Mergui in the secondary scrub and in gardens. It feeds 

 largely on insects and also on berries and fruit. It is usually found singly or in 

 pairs, though often half-a-dozen or more may be seen seated about the bushes, 

 near each other, looking as if they all belonged to one flock or party. 



456. Pycnonotus flavescens, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 568; 



Anders. Yunnan, Exp. p. 659 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 192; Oates, 

 B. Br. Burm. i. p. 192. Ixus flavescens, Bl. and Wald., B. Burm. p. 134 ; 

 Hume and Dav. Sir. F. vi. p. 306; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 98. BLYTH'S 

 BULBUL. 



Forehead and crown brown, the feathers edged with olive yellow ; upper 

 surface of body and wing coverts olive brown, tinged with olive yellow ; lores 

 dark brown with a whitish line above them ; sides of the head greenish brown; 

 under surface of body washed with yellow, the feathers of the breast with 

 darker streaks ; vent and under tail coverts deep yellow ; legs, feet, and claws 

 variable, deep reddish to plumbeous or black ; bill black. 



Length. 8-5 to S'8 inches; wing 3-5; tail 4'2 ; tarsus 0*85; bill from 

 gape 0'8. 



//<23. The hill portions of Tenasserim, as far south, according to 

 Mr. Davison, as a point between Mooleyit and Paraduba. Capt. Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay procured it in the Tonghoo hills and in Karennee, and he states, that 

 it is common in the Karen hills. It is recorded by Blyth from Arrakan ; by 

 Col. Godwin-Austen from the Khasia hills, and Dr. Anderson procured it 

 near Bhamo. (Gates.) Its habits are not unlike other species of the genus, 

 but it avoids dense forests and keeps generally to the outskirts. 



457- PycnonotUS luteolUS (Less), Gray, Gen. B. I. p. 237. 

 Haematornis luteolus, Less, Rev. Zool. p. 354. Pycnonotus flavirictes, 

 Strickl. Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 413. Ixus luteolus, Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 84, 

 No. 452 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 283 ; Ball, Sir. F., 1874, p. 410 ; 



1876, p. 235 ; Fairbanlt, t. c. p. 258 ; Hume, t. c. p. 415 ; Fairbank Str. F. 



1877, p. 405 ; Ball, t. c. p. 417 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 98. The WHITE 

 EYE-BROWED BUSH BULBUL. 



Above olive brown, more olivaceous on the lower back and rump, where 

 there is a perceptible tinge of greenish yellow ; lores, eyelids, supercilium, also 

 a streak under the eye dull white ; ear coverts light brown, washed with olive 

 and with narrow whitish shaft streaks ; forepart of cheeks yellow, forming a 

 short moustachial streak ; forcncck, forepart of cheeks, breast, and flanks pale 



