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upper plumage is dull green, each feather more or less black at 

 the extreme tip; v\ings, tail, and upper tail-coverts deep black, 

 the primaries and outer secondaries very narrowly edged with 

 greenish on the outer, and more broadly with white on the inner 

 \vebsj lores, cheeks, a ring round the eye, and the whole lower 

 plumage bright yellow. 



The male at other times (July to January) has the upper plu- 

 mage, wing-coverts, and tertiaries dull green ; the tail greenish 

 yellow ; primaries and secondaries dark brown, edged with greenish 

 yellow ; lores, cheeks, round the eye, and the entire lower plumage 

 bright yellow. 



Female. Eesembles the male in the plumage last described. 



Young males with the tail green and the tertiaries mingled 

 black and greenish yellow are not uncommon. 



Iris dark brown ; bill leaden blue, the culmen dark horny ; legs 

 and feet leaden blue ; claws horny (Hume Coll.}. 



Length about 6-5; tail 2'2 ; wing 275; tarsus -8; bill from 

 gape 1. 



Distribution. Arrakan (Blyili) ; the southern portion of Tenas- 

 serim from Mergui to Bankasun and the Thoungyeen valley. 

 Tickell obtained this bird near Ye in Tenasserim. It extends down 

 the Malay peninsula. 



An allied species from Siam is A. ccanihotis, which has the ear- 

 coverts and the tips of the wing-coverts yellow. 



Habits, $c. Frequents gardens and forests, going about singly 

 or in pairs, searching the leaves of trees for insects and uttering a 

 fine whistling call. 



Genus JEGITHINA, VieilL, 1816. 



The genus <&yithina, allied to the last genus, is equally, in my 

 opinion, removed from the Bulbuls. 



All the species of JEgitliina have two moults in the year. The 

 females in all cases remain unchanged in colour by the moults, but 

 the males in some cases have a very distinct summer and winter 

 plumage. 



In ^Egithina the bill is about two thirds the length of the head, 

 with the culmen nearly straight ; the bill is notched and pointed. 

 The wing is very rounded and the tail short and square. The 

 plumage of the rump is remarkably soft and copious, and the males 

 are in the habit at times of puffing it out. 



All the species are green and yellow, and they have a close re- 

 semblance one to the other. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail black or green throughout. 



a'. Upper plumage either greenish yellow or 



black or a mixture of both JE. tipTiia, p. 230. 



&'. Upper plumage entirely dark green JE. viridissima, p. 231. 



b. Tail tipped with white d. nigrilutea, p. 232. 



