THE BIRDS OF BANGKOK. fil) 
notes. One of these is a soft and rather long drawn-out trill, and 
another isa quick whistling call of whee-o whee-o. Its most remark- 
able note, however, which it not unfrequently utters, is a long, slow 
whistle of two syllables, corresponding to the musical notes e and g 
sharp. 
This bird may be looked for in every Bangkok garden, but 
it is more often heard than seen, owing to its small size, its strictly 
arboreal habits, and the manner in which its colouration blends with 
that of the foliage among which it is always found. 
Distribution. Also recorded from Northern Siam (Gyldenstolpe), 
and Trang (Robinson and Kloss). ° 
6 (288). Otocompsa emeria. The Bengal Red-whiskered 
Bulbul. 
Siamese, ynareanva low (Nok parod hua khonf). 
Description. Length, 190 mm (7.5 in.). Forehead and crown, 
black—the feathers of the Jatter being elongated into a conspicuous 
crest 19 mm. (.75 in.) long; a small crimson patch below and 
behind the eye; upper neck, back and wings, brown; tail, dark 
brown—the outer four or five feathers on each side, tipped with white, 
Lower plumage, white, except the under tail-coverts, which are 
crunson. 
Distribution. Trang ( Robinson and Kloss ); Phrae ( Gyldens- 
tolpe). Mr. KH. G. Herbert informs me that it is common at Paknampo, 
1 obtained one specimen of this handsome bird in my garden in 
October 1913, and there is another in the Museum here marked 
“ Bangkok” in, I am told, Flower’s handwriting. 
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7 (298). Pycnonotus analis. The Yellow-vented Bulbul. 
Siamese, wynaran wut unu (Nok parod na nuanf). 
Description. Length, 203 mm. (8in.). The whole upper 
plumage, brown, darker on the head; a broad supercilium, white ; 
+ The ad of parod, in the names of this and the next two birds, is 
pronounced more like a t. The words hua khon mean “ mask-headed.”’ 
t The words na naan mean “ powdered-faced”. 
