MALAYAN ORMTTHOLOGT. 11 



"Kuala Kaugsa, 5th May, 1877 While stopping to 



get a cocoa-nut at a Malay's hut, some three or four mile3 from 

 camp, I shot a small Bulbul which was flitting about near the top 

 of a high tree. 



Otocompsa emeeia (Linn.). 



I heard of one of these Bulbuls being shot in the Straits, but 

 myself never even saw it there. In South China it is exceedingly 

 plentiful : — 



" Hongkong, 16th May, 1878. This morning I caught three 

 young Bulbuls on the grass plot behind my quarters. They 

 could scarcely fly, evidently having but lately left their nest- 

 Putting them in a cage outside my window, the old birds soon 

 found them out and brought them food, but made a great fuss 

 if I went near. All day long they kept close to their young, 

 and often settled within a few feet of me ; so I took down an 

 exact description of them. Irides deep crimson; bill black; head, 

 crest, moustache-streak, and band down side of neck jet-black ; 

 cheeks white ; upper parts brown ; throat and underparts dull 

 white ; under tail-coverts bright crimson. They are common 

 about the gardens in Hongkong. 



" The young appear to be about a fortnight old, and are able 

 to fly twenty or thirty yards. Their irides are dark brown, upper 

 parts brown, underparts dull white, under tail-coverts chestnut ; 

 length 4 inches. They have the white cheeks and dark crest of 

 the mature bird." 



Phtlloenis icterocephala. The Malayan Green Bulbul. 



By no means rare in the south of the peninsula — in fact, rather 

 common in the country round Malacca ; but I seldom saw it in 

 Perak. It is very like, but smaller than Blyth's Phyllornis 

 jerdoni. 



Length 6f inches. Irides brown ; legs plumbeous ; upper parts 

 grass-green, tinged on the nape with yellow; under-parts pale 

 green ; chin and throat black ; maxillary streak (or rather spot) 

 purple ; forehead and cheeks glossy yellow, fading into green on 

 the back of the head ; inner webs of quills dusky ; shoulder-spot 

 glossy azure blue ; tail bluish green. 



Phyllornis javehsis (Blyfch.;. Thy Grreen. Bulbul. 



