418 JOURNAL. BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



These birds vary niucli iu plumage, according to whetlier it is 

 new or not. Birds jtist before moulting are mucb. browner and tbe 

 breast and back right up to the nape seem far more brown than 

 black. If a bird in a moulting state is obtained it will be found 

 that the new feathers, which are already fully developed, are much 

 darker, besides having better defined grey edges, than the old 

 feathers. 



There is practically nothing to add to what I have already noted 

 under the heading of the last species. I may, however, mention that 

 I saw a nest this April (1892) in the garden of a friend in Silchar, 

 which was evidently an old one just sufficiently repaired to make it 

 serviceable. It was built in some trellis work, covered with 

 creepers, and not more than two yards from the front door of the 

 bungalow. Naturally, the nest was very frequently visited, shown to 

 visitors, &c., and more than once I myself took the eggs from the 

 nest to show people. The birds, however, did not at all object, and 

 the young were hatched and reared in safety. 



Neither this nor the last Bulbul are common above 4,000 feet, 

 and this bird may be said hardly ever to ascend above that elevation, 

 though M. hurmanicus is found in small numbers xvp to nearly 

 6,000 feet. 



loLE VIRESCENS. 



The Olive Bulbul. 

 Gates' "Fauna of B. I.," Yol.L,p. 284; id., "B. ofB.B.," Vol. I., 

 p. 177 ; Hume's Catalogue No. 452, dec ; Murray's <' Avifauna,'' 



Vol. II., p. 23. 



Description. — Lores and short eyebrow olive-yellow ; ear-coverts 

 dark olive ; remainder of head and upper plumage to the rump olive 

 o-reen ; tipper tail-coverts and the tail rather bright rufous-brown ; 

 sides of the neck olive-brown ; whole under surface from chin to vent 

 yellow, more or less suffused with olive-brown ; under tail-coverts 

 pale tan-colour ; wings dark brown ; the coverts and inner secondaries 

 broadly, and the remaining feathers narrowly, edged with rufespent 

 olive-brown. 



Length 7-4'' ; tail 3-3" ; wing 3- 3" ; tarsus '7' ; bill at front -e" ; 

 from gape '88", 



