JOUENAL 



OF THE 



B^tupl gfetoitg ^o(ut^. 



No. 4.] BOMBAY, 1892. [Vol. vii 



THE BULBULS OF NOETH CACHAE. 



By E. C. Stuart-Baker. 



Part IV. 



f With 1 Plate. J 



( Bead before the Bombay Natural History Society on 

 nst Becember, 1892.) 

 molpastes burmanicus. 

 The Burmese Eeu-vented Bulbul. 

 Gates' " Fauna of B. I./' Vol. I., p. 269 ; id., Hume's " Nests and 

 Eggs," Vol. I., p. 173. 



Description. — Forehead to back of crown, chin and throat 

 extending to the top of the breast, lores, cheeks and round the eye 

 black ; ear-coverts hair-brown. Nape, neck, back, wing-coverts and 

 breast brown; each feather margined with pale grey; rump light 

 brown ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail dark brown, deepening to black 

 towards the tip, the central feathers tipped obsoletely, the others 

 distinctly, with white ; quill feathers of wing brown, margined grey ; 

 flanks and sides of abdomen greyish-brown ; centre of abdomen 

 almost white ; under tail-coverts crimson- scarlet ; thighs dark brown. 

 Bill and legs blackj irides brown, reddish -brown, or light brown. 



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