MOLPASTES. 387 



(402) Molpastes haemorrhous chrysorrhoides. * 



The Chixese Eed-vented Bulbul. 



H(Pmatorm.< chr;fxorrh(nde< Lafr., Eev. Zool., p. 367 (1845) (China). 

 Molpastes atricapiUus. Blanf. & Oates, i. p. '270. 



Vernacular names. Kator-tor-manf] (Kachin) ; Ko-hai-Jcwun 

 (Chinese). 



Description. This form is distinguished from all others by its 

 almost white ear-coverts ; the gt^neral plumage is paler and the 

 black of the lower ])arts confined to the chin. The black of the 

 crown is sharplv defined from the rather pale brown hind neck and 

 back. 



Colours of sofc parts as usual. 



Measurements. Wing about So to 111 mm. Chinese birds vary 

 between 90 and 111 mm. and two Aery doubtful birds from 

 Tenasseriui have wings of only 87 mm. 



Distribution. From the Xorth of Karenni through the Kachin 

 Hills. Shan States and Yunnan to South-AVest China. Birds from 

 Xorth and Central Siam are also of this race. Birds from South- 

 West Siara and East Tenasserim are doubtfully referable to this 

 race. 



Nidification. The nest and eggs are described as similar to those 

 of the Bengal binl and a series of the latter obtained bv StalF- 

 Surgeon Jones at Hongkong might stand almost equally well for 

 any of the other races. They average 2rS x 16-7 mm. ; the longest 

 and shortest are 22-9xl7'3and 206 x 16-4 mm. ; the longest is 

 also the broadest, and the most narrow is 21-5 x 161 mm. 



Staff-Surgeon Jones says that the eggs number from two to six 

 in a clutch and that the nest is often placed in a fir-tree at a con- 

 siderable height from the ground. 



Habits. The Chinese Eed-vented Bulbul is the same familar bird 

 in China and th^- Burmo-Chinese countries that the Indian Eed- 

 vented Bulbul is in India but over a great part of its range it is a 

 bird of the semi-jungle and forest land as well as of villages and 

 towns. Otherwise in all its habits it differs in no way from the 

 other geographical races. 



(403) Molpastes haemorrhous bengalensis. 



The Bexgal Eeb-textei) BcLBrx. 



MolpasUs benqalemis Blvth, J. A. S.B.. xiv, p. .566 (1845) (Bengal) ; 

 Blauf. & Oates, i, p. i'71. 



Vernacular names. Bulbul, BulbulU (Hind.) ; KaJa Bulbul 

 (Beng.) ; Bulbul-sorai (Assam); Dao-buUip (Cachari) ; Inrut 

 bullip (Saga.); /'«/t7oHi(Bhut.) ; Mancle j^h-pho (LeT^cha). 



* Musckapa atricopilla of Vieill., Nout. Diet. d'Hist. Xat., ixi, p. 489 (1818) 

 13 preoccupied bv Linnc, 1768, and cannot be used. 



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