KELAARTIA. 427 
Description. Forehead and crown dark brown or blackish, each 
feather very narrowly edged with ashy ; a narrow white line from 
the nostril to the upper part of the eye and a broad yellow streak 
from that point to the nape; chin and upper part of cheeks white ; 
lores, ear-coverts and lower part of cheeks black, the ear-coverts 
with a streak of yellow down the middle; a large slaty-blue spot 
on the neck next the ear-coverts; upper plumage olive-green ; 
wings and tail dark brown, the outer webs of the feathers washed 
w ith olive-green ; the whole lower plumage, except the chin, deep 
yellow, washed with olive on the breast and flanks ; under wing- 
coverts and edge of wing yellow. 
Fig. 82.—Head of K. penicillata. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris bright red, reddish brown or carmine; 
bill black ; legs and feet dark plumbeous or dark bluish plumbeous. 
Measurements. Length about 190 mm.; wing 80 to 85 mm.; 
tail about the same; tarsus about 20 mm.; culmen about 15 mm. 
Distribution. Ceylon only. 
Nidification. This bird breeds in March and April, perhaps 
also in other months, between the foot-hills and about 4,000 feet. 
It makes a cup-shaped nest, rather shallow and flimsy, of dead 
leaves, twigs and grass, which it suspends between a vertical fork 
of an outer branch of some small sapling or hign bush in the forest. 
The eggs, which are always two in number, are like richly-coloured 
eggs of Jole icterica, that is to say the ground-colour is pale pink 
and they are profusely covered all over with tiny longitudinal 
specks of pale pinkish red with a few underlying ones of pale 
lavender. Six eggs measure 22°3x16°8; 21°8x17:0; 24:-2x 
Ges 3223-6 5G)16°3 - 24-0 x 161; 23-2 16-0 mm. 
Habits. The Yellow-eared Bulbul is found principally in forests, 
ascending as high as 7,000 feet but being most numerous between 
2,000 and 4,000 feet. According to Legge it keeps to low jungle 
and underwood rather than to the higher trees, is restless and 
shy, yet inquisitive and has a note which he describes as ‘ whee 
whee, whee,” quickly repeated. It is more a fruit- and seed-eater 
than insectivorous but indulges sometimes in the latter diet. 
