336 BULLETIN 18 6, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Phu Kha and others in postjuvenal molt at various localities between 

 July 14 and August 29. Birds in postnuptial molt were collected 

 December 3 and 23 and January 30. 



A breeding male had the irides brown ; the bill black ; the feet, toes, 

 and claws blackish brown. 



The adult has a short, yellowish-white streak at the sides of the 

 forehead (from nostril to eye) ; the feathers of the center of the fore- 

 head and the crown dark brown, fringed with olive-green and ashy 

 gray to give a scaled appearance ; the remaining upperparts dull olive- 

 green, the remiges and rectrices edged with golden-olive along the 

 outer web ; the lores blackish ; a narrow, interrupted eye ring of white 

 feathers ; the chin and throat sullied ashy gray and not clearly defined 

 from the breast; the breast and upper abdomen olivaceous-yellow, 

 sullied by the indistinct, brownish-ashy central portions of the 

 feathers, which give a faintly streaked appearance; the flanks and 

 thighs olivaceous-brown, more or less strongly suffused with yellow; 

 the center of the lower abdomen clear, pale yellow ; the bend of the 

 wing and the under tail coverts bright yellow. The juvenile differs 

 from the adult chiefly in having the entire forehead and crown uni- 

 form olivaceous-brown. 



The yellow of the underparts loses much of its brightness with wear 

 and P. f. berliozi (Laos) is probably nothing but vividus in fine, fresh 

 feather. P. f. sordidus of South Annam is likewise doubtfully 

 distinct from flavescens, and good topotypes should be critically 

 compared. 



PYCNONOTUS BLANFORDI CONRADI (Finsch) 



Indo-Chinese Streaked-eared Bulbul 



Criniger Conradi Finsch, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 23, 1873, pp. 349-350 



(Bangkok, Thailand). 

 Pycnonotus blanfordi, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1913, p. 



26 (Den Chai, Phrae) ; 1916, p. 69 (Khun Tan) ; Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 



1915, p. 166 (listed). 

 Pycnonotus blanfordi blanfordi, Gyedenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 493 ("Throughout 



Siam proper").— Deign an, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 141 



(Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 110 (Chiang Mai). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acacl. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 206 (Chiang Mai, "Tung Sio"). 

 Pycnonotus blanfordi robinsoni, Rilet, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 393 



(Nan, Ban Nam Khian). 



This species is common or abundant at suitable places throughout 

 the northern provinces, with the exceptions of Chiang Rai and Mae 

 Hong Son, from neither of which it has yet been recorded, and from 

 the former of which it is not to be expected. It is a characteristic 

 inhabitant of lowland areas overgrown with brush and bamboo, 

 especially where such country is found in the neighborhood of human 

 habitation. At Chiang Mai it was common in town and village 



