Siighe is O10 ky. Bs 
Lanius jocofus, Jzd. Orn. i. p. 73. 22. 
Chinefe Nuthatch, Gen, Syz. ii. p. 655. Var. 
Fighting Shrike or Bulbul, Penz. View of Hindofian, 2. p. 261.—Ovient, Colle. 
for Fan.—Fun. 1797; plate in ditto. 
Bolbol, Le Brun, Trav. (Engl. ed.) t. 95. f. 1.” 
THE Chinefe Nuthatch feems to be the fame bird as this, as both 
have a fimilar name; called in Mr, Pigou’s drawings, Cow Kee 
Quan, or High-hair Hat, the people comparing it to a Chinefe woman’s 
head drefs or hat, which is compofed of horfe hair added to their 
own. 
Pennant obferves, that it has probably a moft harfh note, notwith- 
ftanding. which it has gained the name of Bulbul, or Nightingale. 
This is called Fighting Bulbul, being trained to combat for the amufe- 
ment of the natives. 
The Fighting Bulbul,.is faid to be enamoured of the rofe. Captain 
Dixon had two of thefe, male and female, bought at Canton, which 
were alive off the Cape of Good Hope, but perifhed by neglect in hard 
weather. They would eat vice, but were fondeft of Cock Roaches, 
which they were principally fed with. 
I faw one of them in the Britifh Mu/eum, full nine inches lone: 
four or five briftles at the bafe of the bill; bill and legs brown: the 
colour of the plumage brown above, beneath very pale; a pointed 
Jong creft on the head: rump white: vent and under tail coverts 
crimfon: tail long, all the feathers tipped with white. This came 
from Guzurat, in India. With the laft, | alfo faw another of only feven 
inches in length: head black at top, and crefted: plumage above 
of a darker brown than the laft, all beneath white: under the eye, 
the vent, and under tail coverts crimfon: ‘rump as the back; tail 
feathers fhorter than the laft, and not tipped with white; the bill was 
alfo fmaller, with a flight notch at the tip. 
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