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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Length 5 inches^ tail I'S^ wing 2"4_, tarsus '7, bill from gape '75. The 
female is of the same size. 
From the large series of these birds I have been able to examine in the 
British Museum, it appears that there is no seasonal change of plumage. 
u^. scapularis from Java has the plumage a light yellow without the 
black head. The sexes are alike_, and the male has the tail green at all 
seasons. 
JE. viridis has the forehead brilliant yellow, the upper plumage rather 
dark greenish yellow, and the tail black ; it never has any black on the 
head or back. It occurs in Sumatra and Borneo. The female is very like 
the female of jE. tiphia. 
The Green Dwarf Bulbul has occurred as a rare straggler in the 
southern portion of Tenasserim . Mr. Davison procured one specimen at 
Mergui in June. 
It occurs throughout the Malay peninsula and in Borneo and Sumatra. 
It is found in brushwood and eats insects. According to Mr. Davison 
the note is similar to that of tiphia. 
198. ^GITHINA TIPHIA. 
THE COMMON DWARF BULBUL. 
Motacilla tiphia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 331. Motacilla zeylonica, Gm. Syst. Nat. 
i. p. 964. lora zeylonica, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 101. lora typhia, Jerd. B. Ind. 
ii. p. 103 ; Bl. 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 137 ; Hume, S. F. v. p. 428 ; Anders. 
Yunnan JExjjed. p. 660 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 490 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 99. 
■ " ^gitliina tiphia, Hume, Nests and Fggs, p. 295 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 157 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. p. 7. 
Description. — Male in summer. Lores^ forehead, crown and back black, 
the bases of the feathers on the back yellow and showing through the 
black ; rump greenish yellow ; upper tail-coverts and tail black ; lesser 
wing-coverts black ; median ones white ; greater ones black, tipped with 
white ; quills black, narrowly edged with pale yellow ; sides of the head 
and neck, chin, throat and breast deep intense yellow ; abdomen, sides, vent 
and under tail-coverts dull greenish yellow. The back is sometimes yellow 
merely fringed with black, and the head is sometimes not quite black but 
yellow much mixed with black. 
Female. Upper plumage green ; the tail greener and duskier, the edges 
yellowish ; lesser wing-coverts green ; median coverts dusky green, broadly 
tipped with white; greater coverts dusky green, the outer ones broadly 
tipped with white, the inner one broadly edged with white on the outer 
