THE BROWN-EARED BULBUL. 
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Genus HEMIXUS, Hodgs. 
167. HEMIXUS FLAVALA. 
THE BROWN-EARED BULBUL. 
Hemixus flavala, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p, 83 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 80; Bl. 
B. Burm. p. 133 ; Hume, 8. F. v. p. Ill ; Anders. Yunnan Eiyed. p. 657 ; 
Hume, S. F. viii. p. 98 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 295 j Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. 
y'l. p. 49. 
Description. — Male and female. Tlie whole upper plumage- with the 
lesser and median wing-coverts dark ashy^ the upper tail-coverts tinged 
with olive-green ; tail brown^ tinged with olive-green on the basal halves 
of the outer webs ; greater wing-coverts brown on the inner and olive- 
yellow on the outer webs ; wings brown ; the fourth to the seventh 
primaries edged with grey below the emarginations j all the other quills 
edged externally with olive-yellow, obsolete on the earlier primaries and 
increasing in extent rapidly^ until on the tertiaries the olive-yellow occupies 
nearly the whole outer web ; lores and cheeks blackish ; ear-coverts 
bronze-grey; chin, throat, centre of abdomen and vent white; breast, sides 
of neck and flanks light grey. 
Bill black ; irides dark reddish brown ; feet dusky. {Scully.) 
Length 8'5 inches, tail 3*5, wing 3*8, tarsus '7, bill from gape "95. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Brown-eared Bulbul has been recorded from Arrakan by Mr. Blyth, 
and my own men procured it in the hills of that Division. It is not yet 
known to occur in any other part of British Burmah. It is probably a 
resident in Arrakan. 
It extends through the Indo-Burmese countries into Assam, and along 
the Himalayas to about Simla. 
Very little has been written about the habits of this Bulbul, and its 
nest has not yet been found. 
Hemixus castanonotus, from Hainan, has most of the plumage chestnut 
and the yellowish margins to the wings are inconspicuous. H. cinereus, 
from the Malay countries, has the margins of the wings grey, in which 
it resembles H. malaccensis ; but there are no white streaks on the lower 
plumage as in this latter. 
