308 BIRDS OF TENASSERiar. 



Females.— Length, 7-0 to 7 -62 ; expanse, 9*25 to 10-25; tail 

 from vent, ,2-82 to 3-5 ; wing, 2*82 to 3*25 ; tarsus, 0'7 to 0*8 ; 

 bill from gape, 0*75 to 0'85 ; weight, 11 to 125 ; oz. 



Legs and feet and claws dark to very dark plumbeous ; bill 

 black or horny black ; iris brown to very dark grey brown. 



Lores and a line round the eye, except immediately below it, 

 black ; forehead, chin, cheeks, ear-coverts, throat, grey brown, 

 all the feathers conspicuously centred with bright yellow ; 

 crown and occiput grey brown ; sides of the neck, breast and 

 sides of abdomen pale grey brown ; the feathers of the breast 

 with greyish white shafts ; middle of upper abdomen, fulvous 

 white ; vent, lower tail-coverts, tibial plumes, fairly clear yellow, 

 but in some specimens with an extremely faint ochraceous 

 tinge ; flanks olive brown, with a faint rusty tinge ; edge of 

 the wing yellow; wing-lining paler yellow ; inner margins of the 

 quills somewhat paler yellow, or in some yellowish white ; 

 back and scapulars dull greyish yellowish olive ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts more rufescent, or perhaps I should say 

 ochraceous ; tail olive yellow, brighter on the margins of the 

 feathers, except quite at the tips ; all the lateral tail feathers 

 very narrowly margined at their tips with fulvous white. 



Wing rather dark hair brown, suffused on portions of it, 

 visible when closed, with the same color as the back ; brighter 

 and yellower, (much the same color as the margins of the tail 

 feathers towards their bases) on the margins of the quills. 



452 quint. — Ixus blanfordi, Jerd. Descr. S. E. III. 

 125. 



Said by Ramsay to be extremely common in the Karen Hills, 

 but not as yet observed in Tenasserim proper, and not, I believe, 

 occurring there. 



452 sext.— Otocompsa analis, Horsf. (.33). Descr. 

 S. F., I., 457 



Mergui ; Pakchan ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Confined to the southernmost district of the province. 



[This Bulbul is very abundant on the island of Mergui, in the 

 secondary scrub, and in gardens, and wherever it occurs it 

 keeps to such situations and entirely avoids the forest. Its 

 favorite haunt is open land with just a few bushes scattered 

 about here and there. I have repeatedly seen it on the ground 

 hopping about. It feeds largely on insects, such as grass- 

 hoppers, &c, but also on berries and fruit, and I have seen 

 it clinging to mangoes and pecking away at the fruit. Its 

 note is extremely like that of Otocompsa eineria, tl Kick, kick 

 petti grew," repeated several times. 



