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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Finlayson^s Bulbul is abundant over the whole of Tenasserim and that 
portion of Pegu which lies to the east of the Sittang river. This stream 
appears to be its western limit. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in 
the Tonghoo and Karin hills. I found it abundant in the well- wooded 
tracts o£ country south of Shwaygheen. 
Mr. Blyth states that it occurs in Arrakan. I think that this is 
improbable. If any Bulbul of this type inhabits Arrakan it is probably 
P. davisoni. 
The present species ranges down the Malay peninsula as far as Malacca, 
and it extends into Siam and Cochin China. 
The habits of this Bulbul, as far as I had an opportunity of observing 
them, were the same as those of the next species. 
189. PYCNONOTUS DAVISONI. 
DAVISON^S BULBUL. 
Ixus davisoni, Hume, S. F. iii. p. 301, iv. p. 498; Armstrong, S. F. \y. p. 324; Oates, 
S. F. Yii. p. 47 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 98 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 209. Ixus annec- 
tens, Wald. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xv. p, 401 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 404 ; Wald. 
in Bl. B. Burm. p. 134 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 406. Pycnonotus 
davisoni, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. p. 145. 
Description. — Male and female. Like P. finlaysoni, but diflPering in the 
following respects : — The whole head from the forehead to the nape is 
cinereous, each feather edged with greenish yellow ; the yellow streaks on 
the cheeks and throat are paler and do not extend so low down on the 
breast ; the lores are brown ; the irides are pale yellow. 
Iris pale yellow ; bare ophthalmic skin and eyelids dark purplish ; mouth 
flesh-colour ; bill dark brown ; legs dark plumbeous ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 7'7 inches, tail 3'2, wing 3"3, tarsus '8, bill from gape '85. The 
female is of about the same size. 
Davison^s Bulbul is confined to the southern portion of Pegu. I have 
found it very abundant at Rangoon and on the road leading from that 
town to Pegu ; also at Kyeikpadein and near the Sittang river, which 
appears to be its eastern limit. Dr. Armstrong met with it at Elephant 
Point and Mr. Blanford at Bassein. 
This Bulbul is a bird of the cultivated parts of the country, being usually 
found in gardens, clearings and the neighbouring scrub-jungle. I was 
with Mr. Davison when he procured his first specimen of this bird. It was 
shot in the low jungle which surrounds the Sanjewah bungalow on the 
Prome road about 14 miles out of Rangoon. It is just this sort of jungle 
