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The extent of the blue moustache of the male varies greatly, being in some large and broad and in 
others absent altogether ; it is sometimes quite light blue. 
A young male is very like the old female, but is paler green, and with the emerald-green collar 
round the black throat less distinct. The lores and a patch near the base of the cheeks are black, but the 
malar line and the rest of the cheeks are emerald-green, like the sides of the face. This bird w r as shot 
on the 10th of May. Another immature male, procured on the 24tli of February, has the face black, like 
the old male, a good deal of yellow on the forehead, and the emerald-green collar has a good many yellow 
feathers intermixed, showing an approach to the mature plumage of the male. 
The young female is like the old female, but has the black on the throat more restricted, and has no 
bright shoulder-patch. The black is confined to the lores and feathers below the eye, and does not extend 
across the fore part of the cheeks, which are green, like the ear-coverts. 
[Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet scaly green. Met with on my first expedition, frequenting the 
higher branches of the jungle-trees at altitudes of from 3000 to 4000 feet. My efforts to find this bird in 
1888 were for months unsuccessful, and I began to fear that I should have to descend the mountain with- 
out procuring any more specimens. I was most anxious to obtain some, as I wished to prove conclusively 
that the birds to which Dr. Sharpe had given separate names were but sexes of one and the same species. 
I therefore organized a special excursion for the purpose of obtaining a series of specimens, and at about 
1800 feet I found the species fairly plentiful, and procured the young birds which Dr. Sharpe admits to 
have convinced him of the correctness of my original determinations.] 
94. Hemixus connectens, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. General colour above earthy brown, slightly washed with olive on the lower hack and 
rump, which are very full-feathered ; lesser wing-coverts brown, like the back ; median and greater 
coverts olive-yellow ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts darker brown, slightly washed with olive ; 
quills dark brown, externally washed with olive-vellow, more broadly on the secondaries, the inner ones 
being entirely of the latter colour ; upper tail-coverts olive-yellow ; tail-feathers olive-yellow, browner on 
the inner web ; crown of head crested, brown like the back, the feathers lanceolate and with ashy tips ; 
lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks brown ; throat white ; lower throat and fore neck ashy brown, 
extending over the upper breast ; lower breast and abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks ashy brown, 
the latter slightly' washed with olive-yellow ; thighs ashy brown ; under tail-coverts clear yellow ; under 
wing-coverts and axillaries white, with a tinge of yellow ; quills below dusky blackish, ashy white along the 
inner edge, with a tinge of yellow. Total length 7 - 5 inches, culmen 085, wing 3'75, tail 3*1, tarsus (V65. 
A very distinct species, recalling the general appearance of H. cinereus, but having the olive-yellow 
tail and wings of the IT. flavala section of the genus. It is in fact intermediate between the two 
sections noticed in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds ’ (vol. vi. pp. 48, 49). 
The female is like the male. Total length 7 inches, culmen 08, wing 3'5, tail 2*85, tarsus 06. 
The plumage of the upper surface gets worn to a very pale brown, and some of the specimens procured 
in February are changing to a dark ashy brown. 
[Iris brown ; feet and bill black. Found during the first expedition from 3000 to 5000 feet. In 1888 
it was met with again at the same level as the CJdoropsis. These birds were in small companies, apparently 
family parties, after the nesting-season, and many of them seemed to be in immature plumage. Like 
Criniger rujierissits, this Bulbul has a peculiar appearance at a distance. It sits with its fluffy throat- 
feathers puffed out, so much so that my men often thought the bird had a piece of wool in its bill for 
nesting-purposes, and spared the bird in the hopes of finding its nest.] 
95. HeMIXUS MALACCENSIS (Blyth). 
[Legs and bill dark brown ; iris dark reddish brown.] 
96. Micropus melanoleucus (Eyton). 
[Iris, bill, and feet black.] 
