THE SMALL OLIVE BULBUL. 
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170. HEMIXUS MALACCENSIS. 
THE STREAKED BULBUL. 
Hypsipetes malaccensis, Bl. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 574 j Salvad. Uce, Bom. p. 202 ; 
Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 298 ; Hume, S. F, viii. p. 98 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, 
p. 256. Hemixus malaccensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. p. 53. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage brownish 
green ; lesser wing-coverts the same ; greater coverts, wings and tail 
dark brown, edged with the colour of the upper plumage ; ear-coverts and 
sides of the head brownish green, the feathers of the former with pale 
shafts ; lores ashy grey ; cheeks^ chin_, throat and breast ashy, with broad 
greyish-white shaft-streaks ; sides of the body the same, but with the 
shaft-streaks less distinct ; abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts white ; 
under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow. 
Legs and feet pinkish brown to reddish brown ; bill horny brown or 
very dark horny brown ; irides mahogany-brown to litharge-red. [Davison.) 
Length 9 inches,, tail 8*7, wing 4*4^ tarsus '7 , bill from gape I'l. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Streaked Bulbul occurs in Tenasserim from Mergui down to the 
extreme southernmost point, but is comparatively rare. It extends down 
the Malay peninsula^ where, according to Mr. Davison^ it is common. 
It also occurs in Sumatra and Borneo, and, according to Dr. Tiraud, in 
Cochin China. 
Mr. Davison states that the habits and notes of this bird are precisely 
similar to those of lole tichelli described below. 
Genus lOLE, Blyth. 
171. lOLE VIRIDESCENS. 
THE SMALL OLIVE BULBUL. 
lole virescens, Bl. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 573. lole viridescens, Bl. Ibis, 1867, p. 7 ; 
Bl. B. Burm. p. 133 ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 315, 515 ; Hume, F. viii. 
p. 98 j Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. p. 56. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage olive-brown, 
the head darker ; the wings dark brown edged externally with the colour 
of the back ; tail like the wings but tinged with rufescent ; lores and above 
the eye olive-yellow; the ear-coverts darker; chin, throat, breast and 
flanks olive-yelJow ; the abdomen brighter yellow ; under tail-coverts fawn- 
brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow. The plumage of 
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