384 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED ON THE NILGHIRIS 
parties, feeds on fruit, has a soft, rather mellow whistle, and 
keeps much to the undergrowth of the evergreen forests, ventur- 
ing occasionally, however, into gardens, 
A specimen I shot in the Peria forests differed so con- 
spicuously in the colours of the soft parts, from what is recorded 
by Jerdon, that I give it. Male, shot 1st May.—Irides wood 
brown; legs and feet pale blue; claws bluish horny ; upper 
mandible black ; lower mandible pale brown, darkest along 
edges and at tip. 
[452.—Ixos luteolus, Less. The White-browed 
Bush-Bulbul. 
Occurs in the Wynaad, whence I once received a specimen, 
but is, I believe, rare there—A. O.H.] I met with this 
species at Rampore in Mysore.- W. D. 
452.—Rubigula gularis, Gould. The Ruby-throated 
Bulbul. 
This little Bulbul is a bird of the evergreen forests, with the 
usual habits of the genus, and a note very similar to that of 
R. flaviventris. It is by no means common; and even in the dis- 
trict in which it occurs is very local; it usually associates in 
small flocks. I met with it first near Devalain Wynaad. It 
does not ascend the hills that Iam aware of—at least I have 
never met with it on the Ghats. 
- Lonly procured a few specimens. The following are the di- 
mensions and colours of soft parts of four specimens, two males 
and two females :— 
Length, 6:7 to 68; expanse, 9°4 to 9:5; tail, 2-8to 3:0; 
tarsus, 0°5 to 0°55; bill from gape, 0°7 to 0°78; weight, 
0:7 ozs. Irides vary from white to pale yellow; bill and 
claws black; legs and feet plumbeous, sometimes tinged with 
brown. 
457.—Brachypodius poiocephalus, Jerd. The Grey- 
headed Bulbul. 
The species is not uncommon in some parts of the Wynaad, 
as at Manantoddy and its neighbourhood, the Peria forests, &c. 
Lhave also found it in other parts of Wynaad, but in much 
reduced numbers, and in May last I met with one specimen 
abouta mile from Coonoor. 
The bird is only found ia well-wooded places-—I mean by 
that on the outskirts of the evergreen forests, and similar 
places; for although a place may be well-wooded with deci- 
duous trees, bamboos, &c., the bird would not frequent it, so that 
