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THE PERCHING BIRDS 



the mountains. A social species, and rarely found without companions of its own 

 kind, it principally lives in flocks of ten or a dozen individuals, which seek their 

 food in company. The flight is labored, the bird generally rising but little above 

 the ground in passing from one bush to another. It is a lively, noisy species like all 

 its congeners, and readily announces its whereabouts by its busy chattering. The 

 adult is dark umber brown above; the sides of the head and chin and tail coverts 

 are white; the lower parts are dark umber brown. 



Assigned b}^ many ornithologists to a distinct family, Pycnonotida ', 

 the true bulbuls, together with the green bulbuls {Chloropsis) , are 

 regarded by Mr. Gates as not entitled to be separated from the babblers; the green 

 bulbuls belonging to one subfamily of this great assemblage, and the true bulbuls 



Green Bulbuls 



GOLD-FRONTED GREEN BULBUL AND RED-BILLED UOTHRIX. 



to another. The subfamily (Liotrichince'} containing the green bulbuls presents the 

 following characteristics: The sexes are unlike, the birds being either solitary or 

 associating only in small parties; while their habits are entirely arboreal, their plum- 

 age brilliant, and their eggs generally spotted. The green bulbuls are characterized 

 by the possession of a slender curved bill equaling the head in length, the tip being 

 notched, and the nostrils oval; the wing is rounded, the tail is short and square, and 

 the feet are short and weak. The birds of this group are only found in Southern 



