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breast, are faintly streaked with black. 

 Breast and abdomen yellowish gray, 

 flanks and under tail coverts light 

 yellowish brown. Wings and tail 

 rufous brown, the tail being long and 

 graduated. 



In summer the whole plumage is 

 darker. 



Distribution. — South and central 

 China, resident in the Yangtse Valley. 



Nest and Eggs. — The nest is a deep 

 cup of grass, lined with grass down. It 

 is usually placed near the ground in a 

 shrub. The eggs are white, speckled 

 with red, and there are sometimes as 

 many as seven in a clutch. 



Notes. — This is shy bird, and not at 

 all common. It is a poor flier and 

 mostly keeps to the rocky hill sides 

 covered with scrub pines and under- 

 growth. It feeds on insects. Occasion- 

 ally the male perches on a twig and 

 utters a harsh song, which has been 

 compared to the screech of the cicada. 



The remaining member of this family 

 recorded from the Yangtse Valley is the 

 Bed-headed Babbler (Stachyrhidopsis 

 ruficeps). It is not at all commofl but 

 Styan found it in the hills near Hang- 

 chow. It ranges south to India. It is 

 olive green above, olive yellow below, 

 with a chestnut forehead, crown, and 

 nape. It is about the size of the Brown 

 Streaked Hill Warbler (Suya crinigera), 

 but the tail is not nearly so long. 



Family, Pycnonotidae, Tbe Bulbuls or 

 Fralt Thrushes. 



Bulbuls have rather short tarsi, and, 

 as arule, numerous rictal bristles. There 

 are always some " hairs " springing 

 from the neck, sometimes very in- 



