PYCXONOTUS. 293 



Microtarsus olivaceus, Moore in Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 240 (1854). 

 Ixus bruniieiis (/#..), Hume $ Uav. 8. F. vi, p. 312; Jlumr, Cat. 

 no. 45:2 oct. 



Coloration. Upper plumage brown with a greenish tinge, and 

 slightly fulvous on the rump and upper tail-coverts; wings and 

 tail brown, the outer webs washed with the colour of the back ; 

 the whole lower plumage buffy brown, slightly streaked darker in 

 places with ochraceous ; under tail-coverts dark ochraceous with 

 paler edges ; under wing-coverts and edge of wing ochraceous 

 yellow. 



Legs and feet fleshy or reddish brown, in some lighter, in some 

 darker ; the upper mandible dark horny brown ; lower mandible 

 somewhat paler ; the iris varies orange-red, pale red, whity pink 

 (Hume Davison). 



Length about 7 ; tail 3-2 ; wing 3'2 ; tarsus -7 ; bill from 

 gape -8. 



Distribution. Southern Tenasserim up to about Mergui. The 

 Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



Habits, fyc. A nest found by Davison at Klang, in the Malay 

 peninsula, was placed in a sapling about six feet from the ground, 

 and contained two eggs, which measured -89 by '62. 



309. Pycnonotns pusillus. The Small Olive Bulbul. 



Pycnonotus pusillus, Salvadori, Ucc. Born. p. 200 (1874) ; Sharpe, 



'Cat. B. M. vi, p. 155, pi. x (nee Blyth}. 

 Ixus pusillus (Sahad.), Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 312; Hume, Cat. 



no. 452 nov. 

 Pycnonotus salvadorii, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, App. p. 401 (1881) j 



Oates, B. B. i, p. 197. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage and wing-coverts olive- 

 brown, tinged with rufescent on the rump and upper tail-coverts; 

 tail rufescent ; wings brown, the outer webs washed with the 

 colour of the back ; lores and sides of the head ashy brown ; chin 

 and throat ashy white; breast and sides of the body ashy brown 

 washed with fulvous ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts dusky 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ochraceous yellow. 



In life this bird has a vivid orange ring round the eye, but no trace 

 of this is discernible in dried skins. 



Legs, feet, and cla\\ s pale reddish horny ; iris crimson ; bill 

 black ; gape and base of lower mandible, shelf above nostrils, and 

 ophthalmic ring vivid orange-yellow (Hume $ Davison). 



Length about 6-5 ; tail 3 ; wing 2*9 ; tarsus -6 ; bill from 

 gape *75. 



Distribution. The extreme southern point of Tenasserim; the 

 Malay peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



