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say was fully large for the average, which I make to be about 185 for males 

 and 174 for females, with wings about 85 and 81 and tails 82 and 78 

 respectively. The largest male leucotis (wing 88 tail 85) just overlaps the 

 smallest female of Mesopotamia. The bill in the latter species sex for sex 

 is noticeably larger on comparison, slightly higher, stouter and longer, and 

 measures from the edge of the feathers 14-15-omm. as against 13-14-5 in 

 leucotis, the smaller measurements being those of females. 



The habits and notes of the Mesopotamian bird did not .strike me as 

 being different from those of our Indian bird. 



* Molpastes was a ^enus instituted by Hume in 1873 (S.F. i. 378) for the Red- 

 vented Bulbuls without jyivingr the distinctive g'eneric characters. Hume himself 

 put leucotis in the g-enus Otocovtpsa (Cabanis 1851). Gates in the "Fauna" places 

 leucotis in the grenus molpastes, but it seems to me that the disting-uishinp: charac- 

 ters of this genus are too trivial to separate it from the genus Pycnonotus of Boie 

 tex Kuhl M. S.) 1826 which is the oldest name. 



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