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immediate vicinity of the nest, though there may be nests of other 

 genera within a very few feet of it. Thwy get extraordinarily 

 tame and I have frequently had pairs of wild birds, with nests in 

 my garden, who would take white ants from within a few inches 

 of my fingers and who never thought of leaving their nests when 

 I took tit-bits of food to them or their chicks. 



(404) Molpastes hsemorrhous intermedius. 

 THE PTJNJA.B BED-VENTED BULBUL. 



Pycnonotus intermedius Jerdon, B. of I., ii, p. 95 (1867) (Murree). 

 Molpastes intermedius. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 272. 



Vernacular names. Kola painja (Chamba). 



Description. Only differs from the last race in having the black 

 of the head not extending to the back or upper breast. The ear- 

 coverts are chocolate-brown as in the Bengal bird but the general 

 appearance is decidedly paler. 



Measurements. Wing 92 to 105 mm. It is a decidedly smaller 

 bird than lenyalensis, very few birds having the wing as much as 

 100 mm. 



Distribution. The lower ranges of the Himalayas from the 

 extreme North-West to about Murree, the Simla Hills, Kashmir 

 and the North of the Punjab. Birds from Western Oudh and West 

 Bengal are intermediate between this and the last race. 



Nidification. Similar to that of the last race but it lays three eggs 

 more often than four and the eggs themselves do not seem to go 

 through nearly as wide a variation. The birds breed from May to 

 July at all heights up to about 5,000 feet or higher. Forty egs 

 average 22-2 x 16'3 mm. 



Habits similar to those of M. h. lengahnsis. 



(405) Molpastes leucogenys leucogenys. 

 THE WHITE-CHEEKED BULBUL. 



Brachypus leucogenys Gray, Hardw. 111. Ind. Zool., ii, p. 35 (1830) 



(Darjiling). 

 Molpastef leucogenys. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 272. 



Vernacular names. Manglw-Teur or Mankliph-l-ur (Lepcha) ; 

 jLuudghara (Beng.) ; Painju (Chamba). 



Description. Forehead and crest hair-brown, each feather 

 narrowly edged with greyish white ; lores black, with a white line 

 above them ; cheeks, round the eye, chin and throat black ; ear- 

 coverts white, with a black patch behind them and another patch 

 below rhem striped white and brown ; upper plumage olive-brown, 

 the hinder part and sides of the neck barred with blackish, and 

 the centres of the feathers brown ; wings brown, the feathers 

 edged with olive-brown ; tail brown on the basal half, black on the 

 terminal half and all the feathers except the two middle ones tipped 



