372 PYCNONOTIDA. 
(388) Microscelis psaroides concolor. 
THE Burmese Brack BuLBut. 
Hypsipetes concolor Blyth, J. A. S.B., xviii, p. 816 (1849) (Tenas- 
serim); Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 261. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from 1. p. psaroides in having the grey 
very dark, darker even than in nigrescens and in having the black 
of the head merge into the slightly paler back without any defi- 
nition between the two. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the Himalayan 
form. 
Distribution. Eastern Burma, Shan States, Yunnan, Siam and 
South Burma to Muleyit Mountain. Anderson’s yunnanensis 
cannot be separated from this form. 
Nidification. Similar to that of the other birds of this genus. 
Twelve eggs average 27°219:-4 mm., these few varying very 
little either in size or shape. 
Habits. This is a forest bird, according to Davison keeping 
more to the outskirts of jungle, clearings and more open forest 
than the other races do. It is found from the level of the plains 
in winter to at least 7,000 feet in the Kachin Hills in summer. 
(389) Microscelis psaroides ganeesa. 
THe SourHern Inpian Buack Buwect. 
Hypsipetes ganeesa Sykes, P.Z.S., 1832, p. 86 (Deccan); Blanf. 
& Oates, i, p. 262. 
Vernacular names. Aele Kondiya (Ceylon). 
Description. Differs from all the other races in having no black 
line round the ear-coverts; the grey is darker than in the 
Himalayan form but the head is sharply defined from the back. 
There is little or no white on the abdomen. 
Colours of soft parts. “Iris hazel dyed with lake-red; bill 
orange-vermilion ; feet erange-yellow” (Fairbank). 
Measurements. This is the smallest of all the races except for 
some specimens from theextreme South of Burma. Wing 112 to 
120 mm., tail about 100 to 105 mm. 
Distribution. India South from Matheran and Ceylon, 
McMaster obtained it at Chikaldar on the Garwilgurgh Hills in 
Berar. . 
Nidification. The Southern Black Bulbul seems normally to 
frequent higher elevations for breeding purposes than do the other 
races and will not often be found breeding below 4,000 feet. It 
builds a nest similar to those of its relations elsewhere but makes 
a greater use of dead leaves in its construction. It is often placed 
at very great heights and seldom on saplings or bushes. The eggs 
are almost invariably two only and differ from those of the 
