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463. PycnonotUS Simplex, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 153, pi. ix ; Oates, B. Br. Burmah i. p. 196. 

 Pycnonotus brunneus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 568 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. 

 Soc,p.2io. Ixus brunneus, Bp. Consp. \. p. 266. Microtarsus olivaceus, 

 Moore, in Horsf. and Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. /. Coy. i. p. 249. Ixus 

 brunneus, Hunie and Dav., Sir. F. 1878, p. 312; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, 

 pp. 62, 98. MOORE'S OLIVE BULBUL. 



Whole upper plumage, including the entire head dull brown washed with 

 olive ; tail rufescent olive brown ; quills and wing coverts brown with olive 

 margins to the feathers; throat dusky yellowish white, also the chin; fore- 

 neck, breast and sides of body earthy brown washed with olive; centre of 

 body, abdomen, and under tail coverts yellowish white, also the under wing 

 coverts and axillaries ; bill dark horny brown, the lower mandible paler ; 

 iricles variable orange red, pale red or whity pink, or crimson and Indian red. 



Length. 6'8 to 7-5 inches ; wing 2'8 to 3-4 ; tail 278 to 3-27 ; tarsus 0*65 

 to 075. 



Hab. Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, extending up the Malayan Peninsula as 

 high as Tenasserim, where it is sparingly distributed throughout the province 

 south of Tavoy. 



Mr. Sharpe remarks that great variation exists in the shade of colour in this 

 species, some specimens being much lighter and others darker. He attributes 

 this "to the fading of the plumage after death, somewhat in the same way as 

 the skins of the different Hypsipetes, which lose their colour when preserved. 

 See Sir. F. 1878, pp. 309-312 for remarks on the differences between this 

 species and P. plumosus. 



464. PycnonotUS salvadorii, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. 

 p. 401 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 197. Pycnonotus pusillus, Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born.> p. 220 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 401, pi. X. Ixus pusillus, 

 Hume, Sir. F. vi. p. 312 ; viii. p. 98. The SMALL OLIVE BULBUL. 



PLATE. 



Above olive brown, slightly rufescent on lower back, rump, upper tail 

 coverts, and tail ; the wing coverts olive brown ; quills dark brown with olive 

 margins ; lores, ear coverts, and sides of the face ashy brown ; throat and chin 

 ashy white ; breast and sides of the body ashy brown washed with yellow ; abdo- 

 men, vent, and under tail coverts dusky yellow ; under wing coverts olive 

 brown, rather more yellowish on the edge of the wing ; axillaries dull yellow. 

 Bill black ; legs and feet pale reddish horny ; irides crimson. 



Length. 6-5 inches; wing 2-85 to 2-9; tail 2-9 ; culmen 0-55 ; tarsus 0*6. 



Hab. The same as the last, but sparingly distributed. 

 Gen. OtoCOmpSa, Cab. 



Bill moderately long and thin, the gonys upcurved ; head conspicuously 

 crested ; crest erectile, longer than the tarsus. 



