BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 2-97 



Confined to the hill forests of the northern and central 

 portions of the province from 2,500 feet and upwards. 



[This species is usually found on the outskirts of the forest 

 along forest paths, and in fact wherever the forest is not too 

 dense. Occasionally it is found in small parties, most commonly 

 I think in pairs, and it is not nearly so noisy as the black 

 and grey Bulbuls, H. concolor, &c. Its notes and habits 

 are otherwise quite similar, and like these it feeds chiefly 

 on small berries, with an occasional insect or nectarine 

 debauch.— W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, of this species recorded 

 in the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 9*0 to 9'5 ; expanse, 12'0 to 12*62 ; tail from 

 vent, 3-82 to 4*2; wing, 3*75 to 4'12; tarsus, 0' 65 to 0'7 ; 

 bill from gape, 1*2 to 1*25 ; weight, 1*25 to 1*5 oz. 



Females.— Length, 8'75 to 9*0; expanse, 12-0 to 12*25 ; tail 

 from vent, 3*9 to 4'12 ; wing, 39 to 4*0 ; tarsus, 0*65 to 07 ; 

 bill from gape, 1*15 to 1'18; weight, 1*25 oz. 



The colors of the soft parts varied a good deal in different 

 specimens ; legs and feet fleshy pink, dark fleshy pink, light 

 purplish brown, pale pinkish brown, or pale reddish brown ; 

 bill black, horny black, or dark horny brown ; irides wood brown, 

 deep red brown, light red or crimson. 



The entire forehead, crown, occiput and occipital crest are a 

 warm slightly rufescent brown, each feather paler shafted ; the 

 whole of the rest of the upper parts is a tolerably bright golden 

 olive yellow, brightest on the tail and wings, duller and 

 greyer on the interscapulary region and upper back; the 

 chin and throat are blue grey ; the feathers with conspicuous 

 white shaft stripes ; the lores are mouse brown ; the ear-coverts 

 pale rusty brown, generally pale-shafted ; the upper breast 

 and sides of the breast and sides of the neck behind the 

 ear-coverts are streaked white and greyish brown, more or 

 less distinctly tinged very pale rusty ; the middle of the 

 abdomen and vent are nearly pure white; sides of the 

 abdomen striated with grey or pale brown; flanks 

 and lower tail-coverts yellow, with, in some specimens, a 

 faint ochraceous tinge ; axillaries white at their bases, but 

 the greater portion of these and the wing-lining pale yellow, 

 with a more or less appreciable ochraceous tinge; inner 

 margins of quills, except towards the tips of the longer 

 primaries, pale, somewhat ochraceous or creamy yellow ; inner 

 webs of the quills rather dark hair brown ; lower surface 

 of tail olive yellow ; shafts bright yellow. 



There are several nearly allied species belonging to this 

 sub-group, four at any rate occurring within our limits, and 



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