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 MICROTARSUS. 425 insects and I have shot specimens feeding on the cotton-trees over-full of such obtained from their great red flowers. In most flocks of this birds one or more specimens will be found of the Grey-belHed Bulbul.

{{c|{{larger|(440) Micro tarsus melanocephalus fusciflavescens. The Andaman Black-he a ued Buj.bul. £rac/n/padii!s fusciflavescens Hume, S.F.,i, p. 297(1873)(Audauians). Micropus fuscijiavescens. Blanf. & Uates, i, p. 29o.

Vernacular names. None recorded.

Description. Differs froui the preceding bird in having the whole bead dusky olive-green; the black on chin and throat is confined to the centre of the latter; the black bars are narrower and the abdomen and under tail-coverts are a still brighter yellow. Colours of sofc parts. Iris bluish-white to pale blue; bill bluish- slate to slaty -black; legs and feet plumbeous. Measurements as in the preceding bird. Nidification unknown.

Habits. Davison found it singly or in pairs on the outskirts of forest, edges of jungle-tracts and natural openings.

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 * Brachypus poiucepJtahis Jerdon, J^ladr. J. L. S., x, p. 246 (1830) (Travancore).
 * Micropns phaocephalus. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 296.

Vernacular names. None recorded.

Description. Forehead olive-yellow; chin blackish; cheeks greyish yellow; remainder of head clear bluish grey; upper side of neck, back and scapulars olive-green; rump-feathers black with broad yellow tips; upper tail-coverts and four middle tail- feathers bluish grey with dark shafts, the others black, broadly edged on both webs and tipped with bluish grey, the basal two- thirds of all suffused with olive-green; wings black, all the feathers edged with olive-green, the outer webs of the innermost secondaries being wholly of this colour; breast, abdomen and flanks oil-yellow; under tail-coverts bluish grey.

Colours of soft parts. Iris almost white to blue; bill pale hlate, "pale green" [Davison); legs and feet fleshy tinged with orange (Davison).

Measurements. Bather smaller than 21. melanocej^>halus : wing about 73 to 78 mm.

Distribution. Malabar coast; from Belgaum to South Travan- core; Coonoor and Wynaad Hills.

Nidification. The Grey-headed Bulbul makes a small, compact cup-shaped nest, which it places in low bushes in fairly dense jungle. The eggs are like those of 2£. m. melanocejjhulus and ten