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I may add that very often the sides of the upper part of the 

 throat just below the base of the lower mandible are blackish 

 as well as the chin. A few specimens are intermediate between 

 this species and nigropileus, and have the ear-coverts decidedly 

 brown, and a certain amount of brown markings on the breast. 



463. — JPhyllornis jerdoni, Blyth. 



In the Ibis for 1876, p. 351, Col. Tickell is said to have 

 figured a male of this species, ex-Moulmein. 



Col. Tickell's descriptions are said to agree best with chloroce- 

 phalus, while the plate agrees best with jerdoni I myself have 

 no doubt that there is some mistake ; most certainly P. jerdoni 

 does not occur in Tenasserim, which is altogether outside its 

 range. 



463 bis.— Phyllornis chlorocephalus, Wald. (69). 

 Descr. S. F., III., 129. 



(Tonghoo, Karennee, at 1,600 feet, Rams.) Kollidoo ; Dargwin; Pahpoon; 

 Wimpong ; Thoungya Sakan ; Myawadee ; Topee ; Paraduba ; Meetan ; Amherst ; 

 Yea ; Zadee ; Meeta Myo ; Tavoy ; Mergui ; Tennasserim Town ; Pakchan ; 

 Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Very common everywhere throughout the province, but not 

 ascending the higher slopes of the highest hills. 



[This is the common green Bulbul of Tenasserim, occurring 

 throughout the province, except in the higher hills. It is usually 

 found in the forest, but also occurs in well- wooded gardens, and 

 even on single isolated trees, if they happen to be in fruit or 

 flower. In the morning and evening numbers congregate on 

 all such, in company with Temenuchus, Otocompsa, Molpastes, 

 &c. ; they feed largely on berries and the nectar of flowers (which 

 is, I think, their favourite food) and also on small insects. Bom- 

 bax trees in flower are very favourite feeding haunts. _ They have 

 a lively whistling note, which they constantly utter while feeding ; 

 they are quarrelsome, and continually chase one another, and any 

 other bird that comes near them when feeding. During the 

 day they retire to the forest, and are then generally found singly 

 or in pairs sitting about inside the trees in the shade 

 and quite silent ; their flight is undulating but rapid. I have 

 noticed that they never peck away at large fruits like mangoes, 

 but only eat those small berries that they can swallow whole. — 

 W. D.] 



This species does not anywhere in Tenasserim show any indica- 

 tion of grading into ieterocephalus : on the contrary specimens 

 from the neighbourhood of Pahpoon are, if any thing, closer to 

 ieterocephalus than those from Malewoon. We have about 70 spe- 

 cimens of this species, and about 30 of ieterocephalus, collected 

 from Malacca (we got none at Penang) to Johore, and after 



