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iininecliiite vicinity of tlie nest, tliough there maybe nestts of otlier 

 genera within a \ery few feet of it. Tli;-y get extraordinarily 

 tame and I have frequently had pairs of wild birds, with nests in 

 iny garden, who would take white ants from within a feAV inches 

 of my fingers and who never thought of leaving their nests when 

 I took tit-bits of food to them or llieir chicks. 



(404) Molpastes haemorrhous intermedius. 



The PuNJ.iB Eed-tenteb Bulbul. 



Pycnunotus infennedius Jerdon, B. of I., ii, p. 95 (18(37) (Miirree). 

 Molpasteii intcimedius. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 212. 



Vernacular names. Kala indnja (Chamba). 



Description. Only difiers from the last race in having the black 

 of the head not extending to the back or upper breast. The ear- 

 coverts are chocolate-brown as in the Bengal bird but the general 

 appearance is decidedly paler. 



Measurements. AVing 92 to 105 mm. It is a decidedly smaller 

 bird than hemjalensh, very few birds having the wing as much as 

 loo mm. 



Distribution. The lower ranges of the Himalayas from the 

 extreme North- West to about Murree, the Simla Hills, Kashmir 

 and the North of the Pniijab. Birds from \yesteru Oudh and West 

 Bengal are intermediate between this and the last race. 



Nidification. Similar to that of the last race but it lays three eggs 

 more otten than four and the eggs themselves do not seem to go 

 through nearly as wide a variaticm. The birds breed from May to 

 July at all heights up to about 5,000 feet or higher. Forty eggs 

 average 22-2 x 1G*3 mm. 



Habits similar to those of M. h. hengcdensls. 



(405) Molpastes leucog-enys leucogenys. 



The White-cueeked Bulbul. 



Br achy pus leucoyeni/s Wi'av, Hardw. 111. Ind, Zool., ii, p. 35 (1830) 



(Uaiijiling). 

 Molpastes leucayenys. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 272. 



Vernacular names. MangUo-lcur or ManlcUph-lio' (Lepcha) ; 

 JCandghara (Beng.) ; Painjii (Chamba). 



Description. Forehead and crest hair-brown, each feather 

 narrowly edged with greyish white; lores black, with a white line 

 above them ; cheeks, round the eye, chin and throat black ; ear- 

 coverts white, with a black patch behind them and another patch 

 below rliem striped white and brown ; upper plumage olive-brown, 

 the hinder part and sides of the neck barred with blackish, and 

 the centres of the feathers brown ; wings brown, the feathers 

 edged with olive-brown ; tail brown on the basal halt, black on the 

 terminal half and all the feathers except the two middle ones tipped 



