MICROPUS. 295 



whole plumage is olive-yellow, brighter and more yellow on the 

 lower part of the abdomen, the tail-coverts (both upper and lower), 

 and the tips of the rump-feathers, which latter are also barred 

 \vith black ; these bars are only visible when the feathers are dis- 

 arranged, merely a few black patches being evident at other 

 times ; primaries and their coverts entirely black ; secondaries 

 black, edged externally with olive-yellow ; tertiaries black on their 

 inner and olive-green on their outer webs ; tail olive-green for 

 about two thirds of its length, then broadly black and finally broadly 

 tipped with bright yellow. 



Bill black ; mouth pale blue ; iris blue ; legs plumbeous. 



Length about 7 ; tail 3-3 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus -5 ; bill from 

 gape -8. 



Distribution. Dacca ; Tipperah ; Arrakan ; the southern portion 

 of Pegu ; Karennee ; the whole of Tenasserim except the highest 

 hills. 



This bird extends down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra, .lava, 

 Borneo, and Palawan. 



311. Micropus cinereiventris. The Grey-bellied Bulbul. 



Brachypodius cinereoventris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 576 (1845) ; 



Wald. in BlyiKs Birds Burm. p. 136; Hume Dav. S. F. vi, 



p. 319; Hume, Cat. no. 457 quat.; Gates, 8. F. x, p. 210 ; Hume, 



S. F. xi, p. 180. 

 Micropus cinereiventris (BL~), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 67 ; Oates, 



B. B. i, p. 182. 



Coloration. Resembles M. melanocephalus. Differs in having the 

 breast, upper part of abdomen, hind neck, and sometimes the 

 upper part of the back bluish grey, and in having the primaries 

 narrowly edged with olive-green on the outer webs. 



Iris blue ; eyelids grey ; bill black ; mouth dusky fleshy ; legs 

 and claws brownish black. 



Length about 7; tail 2-9; wing 3'15; tarsus -6; bill from 

 gape '85. 



Distribution. Cachar ; Tipperah ; Dacca ; Toungngoo ; southern 

 Pegu about Rangoon and the valley of the Pegu river. This 

 Bulbul has also been observed at Tonka, Salang, and Malacca 

 in the Malay peninsula. 



31 2. Micropus fusciflavescens. The Andaman Black-headed 



Bulbul. 



Brachypodius melanocephalus (Gm.), apud Ball, J. A. S. B. xli, 



pt ii, p. 284 ; id. S. F. i, p. 71. 

 Brachypodius fuscoflavescens, Hume, S. F. i, p. 297 (1873) ; Wald. 



Ibis] 1873, p. 306 ; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 224 ; id. Cat. no. 457 ter. 

 Micropus fusciflavescens (Hume), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 66. 



Coloration. Resembles M. melanocephalus. Differs in having the 

 whole head dusky olive-green, the chin and central portion of the 



