44 TIMELIID^E. 



465. OtOCOmpsa JOCOSa (Linn), Jerd. B. Ind, ii. p. 92 ; 

 Aust., J. A. S- B. 1870, p. 1 06; Sharpe, Cat. JB. Br. Mus.v'i. p. 159; Oates, 

 B. Br. Burnt., i. p. 198. Lanius jocosus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 138. Ixos 

 Jocosus, Pears. J . A. S. B . x. p. 640. Pycnonotus jocosus, Blyth, J. A. 

 S. B. xiv., p. 566. Otocompsa monticola, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 8; Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1873, p. 309; BL B. Burm. p. 135; Hum*, Sir. F. 1879, p. 98. 

 Otocompsa emeria, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 309; 1874, pp. 225, 447 ; id. Nesls 

 and Eggs, Ind. .p. 287; Ball, Sir. F. 1874, p. 410; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, 

 p. 126 ; Armstrong, Str. F. 1876, p. 325: Hume, Sir, F. 1-877 P- 35 > Oates, 

 t. c. p. 157;. Hume and Davis&n, Six. F. 1879, PP- 63., 98. j Scully t. c, 

 p. 296. The RED-WHISKERED BULBUL. 



Head crested, black ; cheeks and ear coverts white, with a tuft of glossy 

 hair-like crimson feathers springing from under the eye and reaching to the 

 ends of the ear coverts crimson ; a narrow black line separates the cheeks anti 

 ear coverts ; sides of the neck and a patch on either side of the breast brown- 

 ish black ; chin and under surface of body white; under tail coverts crimson- j 

 edge of wing pinkish ; under wing coverts dull white ; plumage above light 

 hair brown^ the quills darker and edged with light hair brown ;. tail the same, 

 except the four central feathers tipped with white. Bill and legs black ; irides 

 brown. The, young have no crimson under the eye; the head ia dark brown 

 and the plumage fulvous. 



Length. 6-5 ta 7-8 inches; wing 3. to 3-15 ; ; tail 3-2 to- 3-3,,*- culmen 07 ? 

 tarsus 0*75. 



Hab.rThQ Central Himalayas to Assam an<I throughout the Burmese- 

 countries and Southern China down the Malayan Peninsula and also 

 to the Andamans. Common in the Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, 

 Bengal, Assam, Sikkim, and Nepaul, affecting well-wooded districts. Ac- 

 cording to Jerdon, it is rare in the Carnatic, It periodically visits Madras ; 

 is generally spread on the Western- Coast ; and abundant on the Neil- 

 gherries. It is rare in the Central tableland, common in the Northern 

 Circars and Lower Bengal. Gates says it is one of the best known 

 birds of Burmah. Abounds in the whole of Pegu except in the portion 

 lying between Prome and Thayetmyo, where it is either rare or absent. 

 Common throughout Tenasserim, and diffused over Cochin-China, the 

 Indo-Burmese countries, and almost the whole peninsula of India. It is 

 a pretty bird, and is generally seen in gardens. It lives on fruit and seeds, 

 and is like P. hcEmorrhou-s, caged or trained by hand. It breeds from March 

 to the end of May. The nest is placed in a bush or on creepers. The 

 nest is saucer-s-haped, and like that of other species of Pycnono-tus. Eggs 3 to 

 4, three being the normal number ; colour pinkish white, thickly mottled and 

 blotched with purplish red. 



486. OtOCOmpsa emeria (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. 

 p. 159. Muscicapa emeria, Linn. Syst. Nat. Hist. i. p. 326 (ex. 



