270 CKATEROPODID^E. 



blackish (not brown), margined more broadly with grey (not 

 whitish). 



Bill and legs black ; iris dark brown. 



Length about 8 ; tail 3-8 ; wing 3'8 ; tarsus -9 : bill from 

 gape -9. 



Distribution. The limits of this species on the north are difficult 

 to define owing to want of specimens. Hume found it abun- 

 dant, and the only species of this class of Bulbul, in Manipur. I 

 have examined a specimen that was procured at Kamrup in Assam 

 and another at Shillong. Sharpe records it from Cachar, whence, 

 however, 1 have not myself seen a specimen. Both Anderson and 

 Eea procured it at Bhamo or in the immediate vicinity. Thence 

 it appears to be spread throughout Burma down to the Gulf of 

 Martaban on the south, and the Bay of Bengal on the west. On 

 the east I cannot discover that it occurs beyond the Sittoung river. 

 Habits, $c. This species breeds from May to September through- 

 out Pegu : its mode of nidificatiou and the colour of its eggs do not 

 differ in any respect from those of M. hcemorrhous. 



280. Molpastes nigripileus. The Tenasserim Red-vented Bulbul. 



Pycnonotus nig-ropileus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 472 (1847) ; id. 



Cat. p. 209 ; Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 549 ; Blyth, Birds Burm. 



p. 135; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 126; Gates, B. B. i, p. 191 ; 



Salvador /, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 597. 

 Molpastes nigropileus (Blyth), Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 321 ; Hume. 



Cat. no. 462 bis. 



Coloration. Resembles M. hcemorrhous, and has the black of the 

 head as sharply defined posteriorly. Differs in having the ear- 

 coverts glossy hair-brown, the lores, cheeks, and chin black, and the 

 throat and breast brown, the feathers edged with whitish. 



Bill, legs, feet, and claws black ; iris deep brown (Hume cf* 

 Davison). 



Length about 8-5 ; tail 3'7 ; wing 3'7 ; tarsus '9 ; bill from gape 

 8 to -9. 



Distribution. Confined to the east of the Sittoung river, and 

 ranging from Toungngoo and the Karen hills down to Amhersl . 



281. Molpastes atricapillus. The Chinese Red-vented Bulbul. 



Muscicapa atricapilla, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi, p. 489 



(1818). > 



Haematornis chrysorrhoides, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 367. 

 Molpastes chrysorrhoides (Lafr,), Hume, S.F. ii, p. 477. 

 Pycnonotus atricapillus ( VieiU,\ Wald. in Blyth' s Birds Burm. p. 136 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 127 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 190 ; Salvadori. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 598. 

 Molpastes atricapillus (Vieill.}, Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 322; 



Hume Cat. no. 462 ter ; Oates in Hume's N. # E. 2nd ed. i, p. 173. 



Coloration. Resembles M. hcemorrhous, and has the black of the 

 head as sharply defined posteriorly. Differs in having the ear- 



