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these parts is the berries of the Ber (Zisyphus vulgaris) and Boquain (Melia 

 azedaracK) trees. Numbers of this species are caught in Bannu in winter and 1 

 hawked about the bazaars, perched on pieces of stick, to which they are 

 attached by a long string tied round the body. Although I have examined 

 several of these captives and bought many in order to release them, in no case- 

 have I seen among them a bird of the next species, which is also so common 

 at Bannu. I attribute the ease with which the present species is caught to its 

 greater fearlessness and to its partiality for the grubs of the white ant, with 

 which the traps are usually baited : this attraction the birds are simply 

 unable to resist." 



This Bulbul is resident in Kohat, and breeds freely in the Station and in 

 the orchards round about. 



{285.] Molpastes leucotis. The White eared Bulbul. 

 Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 338 (common in February and March, a few" 

 pairs staying to breed) ; Marshall, op. cit. xiv. p. G02 (a few occur in March 

 and April) ; Gumming, op. cit. xvi. p. 686 (Seistan : saw several which appeared 

 to be of this species, but failed to secure any). 



In July 19'»5 Major Magrath found a pair of Bulbuls nesting in his garden 

 which he took to be of the present species. At that time he concluded that 

 this bird in summer replaced the last as the breeding species in Kohat and was- 

 unaware, as we subsequently discovered (vide note on the last species), that 

 31. leucogenys bred commonly in and around Kohat Unfortunately we did not 

 critically study the Bulbuls at that time, and not having since spent a "hot- 

 weather" in Kohat we have not had an opportunity of collecting any examples 

 of the present species. According to Major Magrath, the note of this bird is 

 well represented by the following words repeated rapidly : " Quick— a drink 

 with you ?" 



Molpastes mageathi. Magrath 's Bulbul.. 

 Whitehead, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 48 (1908). 



In February 1907 Major Magrath sent a skin of a Bulbul obtained in the 

 Bannu District to Dr. Bowdler Sharpe. The latter and other eminent 

 ornithologists who examined it, finding that there was nothing exactly like it 

 in the National Collection, were of opinion that it belonged to a new species. 

 This opinion was further strengthened by the arrival of three more specimens 

 collected by Major Magrath in the same locality. These all agreed more or 

 less with the first example sent, except that the black of the breast in one 

 was clearly defined from the whitish lower parts, instead of graduating into 

 them as in the other specimens. At a meeting of the British Ornithologists' 

 Club held on the 15th of January, 1908, I exhibited these specimens and 

 described the bird as a new species, naming it as above in honour of its dis- 

 coverer. 



Major Magrath's specimens differ from the hybrid forms already described 

 in being closely allied to M. leucotis and not to M. leucngenys. It is difficult 

 to ascribe them to a hybrid form, as in the case of the Kohat birds, because 



