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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
this bird varies in colour very mucli; freshly moulted birds are mucb 
tinged with ochraceous below,, whereas birds with the plumage worn, lose 
this tinge and become dull olive-brown or olive-yellow. 
Iris brown ; bill bluish horn-colour ; inside of mouth flesh-colour ; eye- 
lids grey; legs and claws pinkish brown. 
Length 7' I inches^ tail 3, wing 3*05, tarsus '72, bill from gape '93. The 
female is of about the same size. 
lole olivacea from the Malay peninsula is close to /. viridescens. It 
differs in having the head the same shade as the back^ and in having the 
wings margined with brown. lole cinerea is another closely allied species, 
which Mr. Sharpe places in the genus Hemixus. It is of large size (wing 
nearly 4 inches) and the throat is white. 
The Small Olive Bulbul, according to Mr. Blyth, occurs in Arrakan. I 
have found it plentiful in Pegu on the spurs of the Pegu hills and in the 
forests of the adjacent plains, except in the dry portion near Thayetmyo 
and Prome, where it appears to be absent. It extends up the Sittang 
valley to Tonghoo, and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay found it further east in 
the Tsankoo hills. According to Mr. Davison it is found in every portion 
of Tenasserim, not, however, ascending the higher hills. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula as far at least as Tonka, and to 
the north it appears to have a considerable range, for it has been procured 
in the Khasia hills and in Cachar. 
This Bulbul is found in forests and their outskirts, the edges of clearings 
and orchards. There are generally several birds together. The food con- 
sists almost entirely of small berries, and it never seems to descend to the 
ground. Common as the bird is in some parts of Pegu, I have never been 
able to find its nest. 
172. lOLE MACCLELLANDI. 
THE RUFOUS-BELLIED BULBUL. 
Hypsipetes macclellandi, Horsf. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 159 ; Je?'d. B. Ind, ii. p. 79 ; 
Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 281 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 133 ; Hume 8r Dav. S. F. vi. 
p. 298 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 98 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 294. lole macclellandi, 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. p. 59. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead to nape with crest rich brown, 
the shafts of the feathers buffy white ; whole upper plumage, wing-coverts, 
tertiaries and tail olive-green, brightest on the tail, the shafts of which are 
black above and yellow below ; lores and cheeks mixed grey and white ; 
chin and throat white, the feathers lanceolate and with grey bases ; ear- 
coverts and sides of the neck chestnut ; breast the same colour, the feathers 
