304 BIRDS OF TBNASSERIM. 



sides, abdomen, vent, and lower tail-coverts with pale creamy, 

 becoming, in some specimens, almost pale yellow ; wing-lining 

 and axillaries pale creamy, becoming yellower towards the 

 edge of the wing ; the lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts are 

 usually a pale grey brown, as are the sides of the neck behind 

 the ear-coverts, though these are generally, slightly more oli- 

 vaceous ; the whole feathers of the cap are dark hair brown, 

 but all broadly margined in adults with a paler grey brown or 

 olivaceous grey, giving a squamated appearance to these parts, 

 which however is wanting in young birds, and only very 

 distinct in fine specimens ; the whole back, scapulars and 

 rump are a dull ochraceous olive, but specially on the back 

 and rump this color is confined to the tips of the feathers, and 

 here the bases of the feathers being very dark, almost blackish 

 brown, the least displacement of the feathers, even in the live 

 bird, produces the appearance of dusky mottliogs. In some 

 birds besides this the olive tipping is itself brighter towards 

 the margins, producing a faintly mottled appearance, even where 

 the blackish bases of the feathers do not show through. The 

 upper tail-coverts are similar to the back, but more decidedly 

 rufescent or ferruginous ; the tail feathers are a dull ferruginous 

 brown or dingy brownish chestnut ; usually the three exterior 

 pairs on either side with a larger or smaller white spot, almost 

 confined to the inner web, and preceded especially on the outer- 

 most feather by an ill-defined dark brown patch, gradually 

 shading into the color of the rest of the feather ; the wings 

 have both webs of the tertiaries, and the outer webs of the rest 

 of the feathers, overlaid with much the same color as the back, 

 though perhaps slightly more rufescent on the margins of the 

 quills. 



451 sept.— Tricholestes criniger, Bay. (6). 



Choungthanoung; Palaw-ton-ton j Bankasoon; Malewoon. 



Confined to the southernmost portions of the province. 



[This little Bulbul goes about in small parties of five or six, 

 keeping to the brushwood, and following each other about from 

 bush to bush, uttering all the while a soft twittering note. 

 In its habits it approaches much nearer the Timaline birds than 

 the Bulbuls, like them hunting systematically the foliage and 

 branches of the brushwood and smaller trees. At Johore ''the 

 southernmost extremity of the Peninsula) where I also noticed 

 and shot this bird, I found that its habits were the same as already 

 described, but one specimen I there shot was quite alone, and 

 was perched on a dead twig, where it kept expanding and 

 closing its tail spasmodically, and bobbing about exactly like a 

 Flycatcher. Their food consists almost exclusively of insects, 



