PYCNONOTUS. 4y} 
Nidification. The Yellow-vented Bulbul apparently breeds 
twice in the year, as a good series of nests and eggs were obtained - 
by Mr. W. A. T. Kellow round about Perak and Taiping in 
February and early March and again in May. The nests are 
exactly like those of Otocompsa and are placed in bushes and small 
trees in scrub-jungle and thin forest. The eggs also are indis- 
tinguishable from those of that genus and are normally only two 
or three in number. They average (20 eggs) 22°4 x 15°9 mm. and 
the extremes are 23°6X 15:1 mm.; 21:0x168mm. The longest 
ege is also the most narrow and the shortest is also the broadest. 
Habits. Davison describes this bird in Mergui, where it is very 
abundant, as being just Jike Otocompsa in habits, food and the 
country it frequents. He says:—‘‘I have repeatedly seen it on 
the ground hopping about. It feeds largely on insects, such as 
grasshoppers ete., but also on berries and fruit, and I have seen 
it clinging to mangoes and pecking away at the fruit. Its note is 
extremely like that of Otocompsa emeria, ‘kick, kick, pettigrew,’ 
repeated several times. It is usually found singly or in pairs, 
though often half-a-dozen or more may be seen seated about the 
bushes near each other, but I do not think they act in concert or 
ever go in flocks; they are not shy.” 
~ (426) Pycnonotus aurigaster xanthorrhous. 
ANDERSON’s YELLOW-VENTED BULBUL. 
Pycnonotus xanthorrhous Anderson, P. A. S. B., 1869, p. 265 (Kalk- 
hyen Hills); Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 286, footnote. 
Vernacular names. Aator-tor-prong (Kachin). 
Description. Forehead, crown, lores, a ring round the eye and 
a narrow cheek-stripe extending to the end of the ear-coverts, 
black; a small spot of deep red at the base of the lower mandible 
near the gape; ear-coverts glossy hair-brown, the feathers with 
obsolete pale margins; wings and tail darker brown, the former 
margined with the colour of the back, the latter narrowly tipped 
with white; sides of the neck brown, meeting in a crescentic band 
across the breast; abdomen and vent whitish; sides of body and 
thighs brown; under tail-coverts deep golden yellow; under side 
of shafts of tail-feathers white. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris brown or brownish red; bill, iegs and 
feet black. 
Measurements. Total length about 200 mm.; wing about 85 
to 93 mm.; tail about 95 mm.; tarsus about 23 mm.; culmen 
about 15 mm. 
Distribution. The hills of Eastern Burma from Karenni to 
the Kachin (Kakhyen) Hills, Shan States, Yunnan to China. 
Nidification. Col. H. H. Harington writes (Journal B.N.H.S., 
xix, p. 121):—“ It always seems to build its nest, which 1s of the 
usual Bulbul type, within 2 or 3 feet of the ground, generally 
placing it in a bramble-bush amongst long grass and weeds, and 
