MOLPASTES. 391 
This bird is a black-headed crestless form of the last bird; the 
general colour above is also decidedly paler. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris brown; bill and legs black. 
Measurements. Just about the same size as the White-cheeked 
Bulbul, the wing running from 86 to 93 mm.; the bill, however, is 
much smaller than in either the preceding or the following bird, 
measuring only about 12 to 13mm. In shape it is rather stout 
and blunt instead of slender as in leucoyenys or very stout and 
heavy as in humo. 
Distribution. Sind; Cuteh; Guvzerat; Rajputana; Punjab; 
the N.W. Provinces South to Etawa and Central India as far 
East as Jhansi, Saugor and Hoshangabad. 
Nidification. This differs in no way from that of the White- 
cheeked Bulbul but the eggs average about 21:0 x 15°9 mm. 
Habits. This bird is merely a plains form of M, 1. lewcogenys, 
which is a hill Bulbul. It is also more exclusively a bird of 
civilization, breeding round about villages, gardens and orchards 
and frequenting liehtly- wooded and cultivated country rather 
than those parts w here the woods are at all extensive. 
(407) Molpastes leucogenys humii. 
Humer’s WHIrE-EARED BULBUL. 
Moipastes humit Oates, Fauna B.1., Birds, i, p. 274 (Jalalpur,Jhelum), 
Vernacular names. Not distinguished from the last. 
Description. Differs from the White-eared Bulbul in having a 
short, full crest and in having both forehead and crest practically 
black, with only very faint ‘pale edgings. There is no white 
eyebrow ; the upper ‘plumage is a grey-brown, with no trace of 
the olive tinge so often present in MW, J. leucogenys. 
Colours of soft parts as in leucogenys but the bill is always 
deep black. 
Measurements as in the other races but the culmen measures 
about 15 mm. and is blunt and very stout and heavy. The wing 
varies from 82 to 93 mm. 
Distribution. Oates named this bird from a specimen in the 
British Museum series which he said differed from all the rest, 
but a more careful examination shows that in this series there are 
about twenty other specimens in every respect identical with the 
type. These birds are all from a small area in the country round 
Jhelum, Attock, Bannu and Kohat, on the extreme N.W. Frontier. 
Nidification. Similar to that of the other subspecies. 
Habits. ‘his appears to be a bird of the lower hills of the 
N.W. Frontier intermediate between the range of VW. l. lewcogenys 
on the higher hills and J, U. lvwcotis in the better-wooded plains. 
It is a resident bird, of course, frequenting and. breeding in 
the gardens and in the scanty vegetation and hedges round about 
cultivated areas. 
