226 HYPSIPETES ORIOLUS 



HYPSIPETES, Vigors, 1831. 



334. BROWN-EARED BULBUL. 

 HYPSIPETES AMAUROTIS. 



Hypsipetes amaurotis (Temm.), PL Col. ii. pi. 497 (1820-39) ; (id. and 

 Schlegel), Faun. Jap. Aves. p. 68, pi. xxxi B ; David and Oust. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 135 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 42. 



Hiyodori, Jap. 



$ ad. (Japan). Upper parts slate-grey, the head silvery grey, the 

 lower back and rump washed with olive ; wings brown margined with 

 fulvous brown, the inner secondaries with grey ; lesser wing-coverts slaty 

 grey ; tail brown, margined with grey ; lores .blackish ; ear-coverts 

 chestnut ; cheeks and throat hoary grey tipped with whitish ; neck and 

 breast ashy brown spotted with white ; sides of breast grey ; flanks 

 reddish brown spotted with white ; lower abdomen dull white ; under 

 tail-coverts brown margined with white ; bill black ; legs purplish brown ; 

 iris dark hazel. Culmen 1'2, wing 5'2, tail 4'9, tarsus 0'9 inch. Sexes 

 similar. 



Hob. Japan, Corea, and Eastern China, breeding in Northern 

 Japan, and in the mountains in Southern Japan, and wintering 

 on the plains. 



It does not differ in habits appreciably from the other 

 Bulbuls. It breeds from early in May to the end of July, and 

 places its nest in a low tree or a bush, constructing it of twigs, 

 moss, and coarse roots, lining it with fine roots. The eggs, 

 usually 4 in number, are said to be in size about equal to those 

 of Turdus merula, but are pinkish white, with purplish grey 

 underlying shell-markings and reddish brown surface-spots. 



ORIOLUS, Linn., 1766. 



335. GOLDEN ORIOLE. 

 ORIOLUS GALBULA. 



Oriolus galbula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 160 (1766) ; Naum. ii. p. 171, 

 Taf. 61 ; Hewitson, i. p. 94. pi. xxvi. fig. 1 ; Gould, B. of E. ii. 

 pi. 71 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. ii. pi. 31 ; Newton, i. p. 233 ; Dresser, 

 iii. p. 365, pi. 144 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iii. p. 191 ; 

 Saunders, p. 145 ; Lilford, iii. p. 98. pi. 49. 



