292 CRATEROPODIDJE. 



bill browii, paler at base of lower mandible and gape; mouth 

 flesh-colour; legs plumbeous ; claws horn-colour. 



Length nearly 8 ; tail 3*2 ; wing 3'2 ; tarsus -85 ; bill from 

 gape *85. 



Distribution. Pegu, from near Rangoon northwards, extending 

 through Upper Burma along the valley of the Irrawaddy to Bhamo. 

 The lateral limits are undefined at present. This is a bird of the 

 plains and lower hills only. 



Habits, $c. Breeds from April to June or July, constructing a neat 

 cup-like nest of herbaceous stalks and grass with a few dead leaves 

 in a bush or low tree. The eggs, three in number, are pink marked 

 with purplish red, and measure '82 by *6. 



This Bulbul has a very harsh note when disturbed, at which 

 time it erects the short feathers of its head. 



307. Pycnonotus plumosus. The Large Olive Bulbul. 



Pycnonotus plurnosus. Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 567 (1845) ; id. Cat. 



p. 210; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 152 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 196; id. 



in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 191, note. 

 Brachypus plumosus (Blyth}, Tweetld. Ibis, 1877, p. 306. 

 Ixus plumosus (Blyth), 'Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 309 ; Hume, Cat. 



no. 452 sept. 



Coloration. Forehead and crown dark greyish brown, each 

 feather margined with olive-green ; upper plumage olive-green ; 

 wings and tail dark brown, the outer webs washed with bright 

 olive-green ; lores dark brown ; cheeks and chin dull whity brown ; 

 ear-coverts dark brown with white shafts ; lower plumage ashy 

 brown, slightly mottled and streaked with dull ochraceous ; under 

 wing- and tail-coverts and edge of wing brighter ochraceous. 



Legs and feet reddish brown, darker in some, paler in others ; 

 bill almost black ; iris varying from burnt sienna-brown to dark 

 cinnabar-red (Hume $ Davison). 



Length nearly 8 ; tail 3-3 ; wing 3'5 ; tarsus '85 ; bill from 

 gape *85. 



Distribution. The southern portion of Tenasserim as far north 

 as Mergui. The Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Cochin 

 China, 



Habits, Sfc. A nest found by Davison at Kossoom in the Malay 

 peninsula was of the ordinary Bulbul type, and placed in a dense 

 clump of cane near the ground. The eggs are pink marked with 

 red and purple, and measure about -9 by -66. 



308. Pycnonotus simplex. Moore's Olive Bulbul. 



Pycnonotus simplex, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167; Sharpe, Cat. B. 



M. vi, p. 153, pi. ix ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 196 ; id. in Hume's N. ty E. 



2nd ed. i, p. 192, note. 

 Pycnonotus brunneus, Blyth, J. A. S. B, xiv, p. 5fc'8 (1845) ; id. Cat. 



p. 210. 



