28 GARDEN AND AVIARY BIRDS. 
Bulbul has a wide range in the dry north-western and 
central parts of India, and extends into Persia to the 
westward. Persian birds are noted to be finer songsters 
than Indian, and make very nice cage pets. This is, 
indeed, the nicest cage or aviary bird of all the Bulbuls, 
being of an unusually tame and friendly disposition even 
when caught old. It is also unusually intelligent; I 
remember a bird which I had only had a day or so 
escaping from its cage and coming back to it the next 
day. I should say, that a hand-reared bird of this 
species would be a charming pet, and in any case its 
tameness and vocal powers strongly recommend it to the 
fancier. I have never seen it wild, but it may not un- 
frequently be bought in Calcutta. In confinement, at any 
rate, it likes to roost at night in a hole instead of per- 
ching like most Bulbuls. 
Tur GREEN Butputs, or Harewas, as they are called 
by the natives, are classed in the Fauna of British India 
volumes among the Babblers, but Mr. HE. C. 8. Baker 
has given good reasons for keeping them among the 
Bulbuls still. In this I thoroughly agree; these birds 
have the characteristic short legs of Bulbuls, and they do 
not use their feet in feeding as Babblers do. However, 
they are certainly very different in some respects from 
the typical Bulbuls, though they do not thereby approach 
the Babblers at all. They have no trace of a crest, their 
bills are long and curved, and they have a long tongue, 
which they protrude to suck up liquid food. They are 
much more active on their feet among the twigs than other _ 
Bulbuls, and have a stronger and more vigorous flight. 
