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Lanius emeria, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 332. Hasmatornis jocosus, Jerd., 

 Madr. Journ. x. p. 250. Otocompsa fuscicaudata, Gould, B. Z. S. 1865, 

 p. 664 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 309 ; id., Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 288 ; 

 Butler, Sir. F. 1875, p. 473 ; Fairbank, Sir. F. 1876, p. 258 ; Hume, t. c. 

 p. 458; Fairbank, Sir. F. 1877, P- 4S ; *# Slr - & l8 79> P- 9 s - The 

 MADRAS RED-WHISKERED BULBUL. 



Above earthy brown, the wings and tail brown like the back, the outer 

 coverts and the quills and tail feathers rather darker, all the shafts of the 

 feathers reddish brown ; head and nape blackish brown with a very long crest, 

 the forehead, lores, and feathers under the forepart of the eye also blackish ; 

 under the hinder part of the eye a tuft of bright crimson feathers ; ear coverts 

 pure white ; cheeks the same, and separated from the ear coverts by a 

 narrow line of black running from below the forepart of the eye to the sides 

 of the neck ; throat and foreneck pure white, also the centre of the body ; 

 sides of body and thighs brown, sides of the upper breast deep brown, 

 extending in a half crescent on each side of the breast ; tail feathers 

 uniform, not tipped with white ; under tail coverts scarlet ; under wing coverts 

 isabelline brown. (Sharpe.) Bill black ; feet greyish plumbeous ; irides brown. 



Length % to 8-2 inches ; wing 3-2 to 3-5 ; tail 3-5 ; culmen 07 ; tarsus o'8. 



Hab. Southern India, Guzerat and Khandeish, also the Deccan. It has 

 been recorded from Mount Aboo, the Eastern Ghauts above Nellore, the 

 Satpooras, Madras, Neilgherries, Coorg, Deccan, Malabar, Trevandrum (Tra- 

 vancore), and Khandeish. 



In its habits the Southern Red-whiskered Bulbul is not unlike others of the 

 Pycnonotine group. It is, like Jocosa, caught, caged, and trained to do 

 various feats. 



It breeds from February to May. The nests are usually placed at no great 

 height from the ground in some thick bush, and are usually composed of 

 grass, roots, and twigs, or fine grass with roots and dry fern or other dead 

 leaves intermixed. Eggs, 3 to 4 in number, pale pink, with thickly freckled, 

 mottled, and streaked spots of purple and brick red, more dense at the larger 

 end. Size 0-82 to 0-97 x O'62 to 071. Hume gives the average of*36 eggs 

 as 0-9 x o'66. 



467- OtOCOmpsa leUCOgenyS (Gray and Hardwick), Jerd. B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 91, No. 458 ; Hume, Nests and JEggs, Ind. B . p. 285 ; id. Str. F. 

 1879, p. 98; Scully, /. c. p. 296. Brachypus leucogenys, Gr. and Hardw., 

 111. Ind. Zool., i. p. 35, fig. 3. Pycnonotus leucogenys, Blyth, J . A. S. B. 

 xiv, p 567. Ixos leucogenys, Bp. Consp. i. p. 265. The WHITE-CHEEKED 

 CRESTED BULBUL. 



Top of head and nape hair brown ; the feathers long and forming an 

 erectile crest, the feathers of which are slightly recurved and margined with 

 dull whity brown ; lores and feathers round the eye black ; a streak of white 



