40 TIMELllD^E. 



ashy brown, washed with olive ; chin yellow ; throat dingy white ; wing coverts 

 and quills brown, externally olive yellow ; tail light brown, the feathers margined 

 with olive ; under tail coverts yellow, under surface of body pale yellowish 

 white, rather deeper yellow on the axillaries and under wing coverts; bill 

 blackish; legs dark plumbeous; iris blood red. 



Length. 6 $ to 7 inches ; wing 3*35 ; tail 3 ; tarsus 0-85 ; culmen 07. 



Hab. Central and South India, also Ceylon. It is recorded from Madras, 

 Malabar and Trevandrum. Jerdon says it is a tolerably common bird in many 

 parts of the south -of India ; rare in others. Common in the low jungles of 

 Malabar and in the bushy jungle and gardens in the Carnatic, also throughout 

 the Northern Circars to Goomsoor. Common in Midnapore. (Hume.) It 

 is usually seen alone and avoids observation. It flies from bush to bush 

 with a fine, loud, clear, thrush-like warble, and feeds entirely on fruit. 

 It breeds about Bombay. According to Mr. Hume it builds in a bush a 

 rather loose structure of twigs lined with fine grass roots, &c,, cobwebs 

 and wool being used to tie it firmly to its support. Eggs 2 4 in number, 

 reddish white, with darker lake red spots. They are elongated ovals and 

 measure 0^92 x o - 62. 



458. PycnonotUS finlaySOni, Strickl, Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 4 1 1 ; 



Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 568; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 144; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm. p. 193. Ixus finlaysoni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 266 ; Blyth 

 end Wald., B. Burm. v. p. 134 ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 301 ; Hume and JDav. 

 vi. p. 307; Hume, Sir. F. viii., p. 98. FINLAYSON'S BULBUL. 



Crown of the head and nape deep grey with pale centres ; forehead and 

 head as far back as the eyes bright yellow ; lores black ; above the lores a 

 small streak of orange ; cheeks, ear coverts, throat, chin, and upper neck grey 

 with bright golden mesial streaks ; upper surface of body and wing coverts 

 olive green, the back washed with ashy; quills brown, externally yellowish 

 olive ; tail olive green, brighter on the outer webs ; breast, flanks, and upper 

 abdomen dark ashy with pale shafts ; centre of abdomen yellowish grey ; 

 vent and under tail coverts bright yellow; edge of wing, under, wing coverts, 

 and axillaries also yellow ; bill bluish black ; irides pale brown ; legs dark 

 plumbeous. 



Length. 7'6 inches; wing 3*2 ; tail 3-3 ; tarsus o'8; culmen 07. 



Hab. The whole of Tenasseiim, also Arrakan. It ranges down the 

 Malaya Peninsula as far as Malacca, and extends to Si am and Cochin-China. 



459. PycnonotUS daviSOni (Hume], Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vi. p. 145 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 194. Ixus davisoni, Hume, Str. F. 

 l %7$> P- 301;' Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 324; Oates, Str. F. vii. p. 47 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 98; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 209. Ixus annectens, Wald. 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 4, xv. p. 401 ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 404 ; Wald. in BL B. 

 Burm. p. 134; Wardlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 466. DAVISON'S BULBUL. 



