L2 MALAYAN OiiNlXHOLOUY. 



Though rather plentiful in Malacca collections. J only once 

 myself shot this handsome bird, viz., during August, 1877. in 

 Johor territory, at Bukit Kopong, about forty miles up the Moar 

 vivcr. While in the jungle, on the look-out for specimens, I saw 

 a party of six or seven little green birds fluttering about the ends 

 of the brandies of a wild fruit-tree, and pecking at the blossoms. 

 On shooting one it proved to be a most beautiful male Green 

 Bulbul, in plumage exceedingly like P. icterocephala, except that 

 its maxillary streak of purple was considerably longer; and it "was 

 also a larger bird, being 8 inclies in length. Throat and face 

 black ; inner webs of wing-quills dusky ; rest of plumage bright 

 green, with a golden gloss, pale beneath. 



The female is of duller plumage, is without the maxillary streak, 

 and has the throat pale green instead of black. 



Toha typhia (Linn.). 

 . 1 shot a great number of those birds in Perak, and occa- 

 sionally came across one in Singapore. At first I took them for 

 immature specimens of lora zeylomca (Gim.), as they were all 

 marked with black on the back and head, some very much so on 

 the nape: but they varied a great deal in plumage ; one I shot 

 during June, at Kuala Kangsa, a male, had scarcely any black 

 on the head or back, irides white, legs and beak plumbeous, tail 

 greenish yellow, with dusky tinge ; but I cannot help thinking 

 that this bird was a female, and that I made some mistake in 

 registering it as of the other sex. 



Another, a male, shot at Sayong, Perak, on 23rd February, 

 had the nape almost entirely black, irides dark brown, and the 

 tail jet-black slightly tinged at its tip with yellowish green. 

 This bird was 5? inches in length ; outer edges of wing-feathers, 

 and also the underparts, yellow, becoming orange on the throat 

 and breast ; wings black, barred with white, ends of the coverts 

 white ; flanks covered with silky-white feathers. 



Perhaps both I. typhia and T. zcylouica are found in the penin- 



ula. 



lOE.V YIEIDISS1MA. 



One I got at Malacca was about 5 inches in length ; plumage 

 dull green, yellowish on the abdomen; patch on eyes and the 



