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tops of even such. Now and then, tempted by some unusually luxuriant 
growth of fruit or berries, it may descend to the higher bushes ; but, generally, 
they seem to withstand temptation, and I have seldom seen them lower down 
than the tops of small saplings. ‘The very few birds I have come across 
during the breeding season alter their habits greatly, and I have most often 
seen them in thick bushes or undergrowth, sometimes in the interior of dense 
forest, more seldom just on the outskirts of it. At this period, too, they 
become very silent, though at other times their loud and musical chirp is con- 
stantly being uttered. The ‘‘ melancholy double whistle,” mentioned by Davi- 
son as being one of their notes, I do not think I have heard, but I once, during 
a rainy afternoon in March, 1892, heard some bird giving vent to his sadness 
in a leng, soft whistle, suddenly terminating in a lower key, and this note may 
have been that of either 2. melanocephalus or IL. cinereiventris. It was more 
like the rainy weather call of ygithina typlia than that of any other bird 
I know, but it was far deeper and softer. 
The bird appears to be almost entirely a fruit-eater, but that it is not al- 
together so was proved by my finding two wood-lice in the stomach of one and 
the remains of a small green grasshopper in another. White ants, of course, 
these birds eat, but I know of no fruit or grain-eating bird that will not readily, 
even greedily, eat those insects. 
I have never come across this bird above 2,600 feet (about), but in Burma 
it seems to ascend far higher. 
Two of the birds of this species in my collection, as also two of the next, 
I owe to Mr. H. A. Hole, of Jellalpur, and the notes he has sent me about the 
birds agree with my own experiences. 
MIcCROPUS CINEREIVENTRIS. 
Tur GREY-BREASTED BULBUL. 
Brachypodius cinereiventris, Hume’s Cat. No. 457; quat.; Hume 
and Davison, 8. F., Vol. VII, p. 319; Micropus cinererewtris, Oates’ 
“B. of B. B.,” Vol. L., p. 295 ; ad., “ Fauna of B. I. Birds,” Vol. L., p. 
295, 
DEscRIPTION.—Breast and flanks pure erey, darker nearest the head and. 
paler lower, where it gradually merges into the yellow of the belly and vent. 
In some birds the grey extends over a great part of the abdomen, in others 
only over the upper portion. ‘The interscapulary plumage generally, and the 
hind neck always, the same colour as the upper breast. 
