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faintly ochraceous, yellow; the whole cap is a moderately dark 

 brown ; all the feathers margined with pale grey brown, or 

 olive green or sometimes both, the grey always predominating 

 towards the forehead, and the olive, if present towards the 

 occiput. 



The back, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts are a 

 dull rather pale brown, suffused and overlaid with dull yellow- 

 ish olive green, much greener in some specimens, yellower in 

 others, and the upper tail-coverts are sometimes fringed decided- 

 ly yellower ; the tail is a dull color, much like the back, but 

 with all the feathers margined on their outer webs, except near 

 the tips, brighter and yellower, and the exterior feather on 

 either side generally with a very distinct though narrow pale 

 margin round the tip ; the wings are hair brown ; the tertiaries 

 overlaid more or less entirely, and the coverts on their outer 

 webs with much the same tint as the back, and the primaries 

 above the emarginations and secondaries margined on their 

 outer webs with a brighter and yellower tint, much the same as 

 that on the margins of the basal portions of the tail feathers. 



452 ter.— Ixus finlaysoni, Strickl. (57). 



(Toaghoo Hills, Karen Hills, Rams.) Tliatone ; Wimpong; Topee; Moulmein ; 

 Pabyouk ; Amherst ; Yea ; Tavoy ; Shymotee ; Pabyin ; Mergui ; Tenasseriin 

 Town ; Bopyin ; Pakcban ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Common in the plains country throughout the province. In 

 the extreme north appears to affect the lower hills. 



[Throughout the plains portion of Tenasserim to the extreme 

 south this is the most generally diffused, and perhaps the 

 commonest, Bulbul. It does not affect forests, but is found 

 on the outskirts of it, in scrub jungle, in cleared land, and in 

 gardens, giving perhaps the preference to the latter. They 

 do not go in flocks, but there are generally so many about that 

 it is difficult to say whether they are in pairs or single. Ap- 

 parently each acts independently. The note is a rather 

 pleasant, feeble whistling chirrup, continually uttered whether 

 the bird is sitting or flying, which latter by the way it more 

 commonly is, for it is a very lively bird, always on the move. 

 It feeds much on berries, but also a good deal on insects, and 

 I have continually seen it on the ground. It is most especially 

 common in all the gardens of Moulmein ; a dozen may be seen 

 at times in each you enter. — W. D.] 



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

 the flesh :— 



Males.— Length, 7-2 to 7*75 ; expanse, 10-0 to 1025; tail 

 from vent, 3'0 to 3-5 ; wing, 3-1 to 3-2 ; tarsus, 0*62 to 075 ; 

 bill from gape, 076 to 0-8 ; weight, 0-87 to 1*25 oz. 



