JOURNAL 



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JiatopI Ifetoim ^o(xt% 



m 3.] BOMBAY, 1892. [Vol. vil. 



THE BULBULS OF NORTH CACHAR. 

 By E. C. Stuart-Baker. 

 Part III. 



f With 1 Plate. ) 



(Read before the Bombay Natural Hiatory Society on 

 29th November, 1892). 



Otocempsa bmeria. 



The Bengal Red-whiskered Bulbul. 



Jerdon's "B. of I.," Vol. II., p. 92; Oates' '* Avifauna of B. I./' 

 Vol. I., p. 228; ?c/., Hume's " Nests and Eggs," Vol. I., p. 178; 

 id., "B. B. B.,'' Vol.1,, p. 198; Murray's " Avifauna of B. I.,' 

 Vol. II., p. 44. 



Description. — Forehead, crown and lores black ; hinder part of 

 cheeks and ear-coverts white surrounded with black ; a tuft of 

 crimson-scarlet feathers under the eye and extending over the lower 

 ear-coverts. Lower plumage white, pure on the chin and throat, and 

 suffused with fulvous-brown on the flanks and thighs, under tail-coverts 

 crimson ; a broad band across the breast, more or less broken in the 

 centre, dark brown ; whole upper plumage, wings, and tail brown, 

 the feathers of the wing margined paler, and the tail having all 



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