416 PYCNONOTIDiE. 



Description. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of head and extreme 

 point of cliin hlack ; throat ruby-red, tlie feathers long and rather 

 bristly; upper phimage yellowish green; wings brown, tlie outer 

 webs of the feathers yellowish green ; tail the same ; lower 

 plumage bright yellow ; under wing-coverts and edge of wing 

 yellow. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris ])ale cream to bright yellow ; bill 

 black ; legs and feet dark plumbeous to almost black, claws black. 



Measurements. Length about 180 mm. ; wing 71 to 78 mm. ; 

 tail about 66 mm.; tarsus about 15 mm. ; culmen about 11"5 to 

 120 mm. 



Distribution. Western India from Kauara to South Travancore. 



Nidification. Nests taken by Mr. J. Davidson are described 

 as " small cups, outwardly composed of a mass of large, red 

 dead leaves, slightly bound with one or two roots and spiders' 

 web, and lined inside with a few roots and grass steins of 

 a coarse description.'" The nests were taken from low bushes, 

 only a foot or two above the ground, higlier bushes and small 

 saplings as high as 10 feet up. The nests are all placed in 

 forest, generally dense, sometimes thinner but never in open 

 country. 



"The eggs are two in number, very small for the size of the 

 bird ; they are quite devoid of gloss and of a pink colour, mottled 

 thickly all over with the smallest possible dark reddish-brown and 

 purple spots.'*' Eggs sent me by Messrs. J. Davidson and T. R. 

 Bell measure about 20'9 x 15*2 mm. They are very like those of 

 the last bird. 



Habits. This is said to be a shy Bulbul, keeping to forested 

 areas in the plains, sometimes going about in small flocks and 

 sometimes in pairs or singly. Davidson sa_\ s that it is common 

 in Siddapur and in the wooded parts of Honwar and Kumta 

 and to a less extent in the denser forests of Karawar, Aukola and 

 Tellapur. 



(432) Pycnonotus cyaniventris cyaniventris. 



The Blue-bellied Bulbul. 



Pycnonotns cyaniventris Blyth, J. A. S. B., xi, ji. 792 (1841) (Malay 

 Peninsula) ; Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 290. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. The whole head and lower plumage deep slaty- 

 blue ; lores black ; forehead and a streak over the lores paler 

 blue; upper plumage and wing-coverts bright greenish yellow; 

 tail dark brown, the outer webs greenish yellow nearly up to the 

 tips ; wing-quills dark brown, all but the first two primaries 

 edged with greenish yellow ; under wing-coverts and edge of 

 wing pale yellow ; under tail-coverts bright yellow. 



