g22 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



Females.— Length, 7'6 to 8*0; expanse, 105 to 11-25; tail 

 from vent, 34 to 3-55 ; tarsus, 0-8 to 0-85 ; bill from gape, 0'85 

 to 9-0 ; weight, 1*0 to 1-25 oz. 



Bill, legs, feet and claws black ; lrides deep brown. 



462 ter.— Molpastes atricapillus, Vieill. (20). 



(Karennee, from 1,000 to 2,000 feet, Earns.) Pine forests, Salween; Kollidoo; 

 Kyouk-nyat'; Pahpoon ; Younzaleen Creek ; Myawadee ; Paraduba j Meeta Myo ; 

 Tavoy ; Shymotee. 



Common throughout the more hilly and richly wooded portions 

 ©f the province north of the 13° N. L. 



[Undistinguishable, so far as voice and habits are concerned, 

 from the last species. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh : — 

 Males.— Length, 8*3 to 8'62 ; expanse, 11*75 to 11-82; tail 

 from vent, 3'5 to 3*75 ; wing, 36 to 3*75 ; tarsus, 082 to 

 0-9 ; bill from gape, 0'82 to 09 ; weight, 125 oz. 



Females. — Length, 7'8 to 812 ; expanse, 11 '0 to 11*5 ; tail 

 from vent, 3*45 to 3*7 ; wing, 35 ; tarsus, 08 to 0'85 ; bill 

 from gape, 0'8 to 09 ; weight, 125 to 1-3 oz. 



Leo-s, feet, claws and bill black ; irides brown to dark brown. 

 Generally it may be said that this species is like M. nigropi- 

 leus, Blyth, but with the entire throat, ear-coverts, breast and 

 abdomen uniform very pale greyish whitey brown. 



It constitutes the last of the Indian series of true Bulbuls, 

 applying this term in its properly restricted sense ; through this 

 series, M. pygceus, M. intermedins, M.hcemorrhous, M. nigropileus 

 M. atricapillus a regular gradation may be traced. 



The lores, feathers at the base of the lower mandible, and the 

 chin, with the entire cap glossy black, a little duller on the 

 chin ; middle of the throat usually nearly pure white ; ear-coverts 

 silvery white, with occasionally a faint fawny tinge ; rest of the 

 sides of the neck, throat, breast, sides of abdomen extremely 

 pale whitey brown ; middle of abdomen and vent feathers nearly 

 pure white ; lower tail-coverts crimson ; nape and entire 

 mantle pale brown, the feathers margined pale whitey brown, 

 giving a more or less striated appearance to these parts; rump 

 uniform pale brown ; upper tail-coverts white, brownish towards 

 the tips of the longest ; wings pale brown, the feathers more or 

 less margined on their outer webs and tips paler ; tail deep 

 brown, almost blackish ; the feathers more or less suffused with 

 pale brown towards their bases ; central tail feathers tipped paler, 

 all the lateral ones tipped with white, the extent of which is very 

 variable in different specimens, generally broadest on the outer- 

 most feather, and when broadest not exceeding 0'5 in width. 

 Wing-lining and axillaries white, or slightly brownish white. 



