crateropodinjE. 65 



Orn. 1887, p. 173). Others wander as far as the Corea, where they 

 have been obtained in December, January, and February (Tacza- 

 nowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 603). 



The nest of the Brown-eared Bulbul is built in a bush, and made 

 of twigs, moss, and coarse roots, lined with fine roots (Blakiston and 

 Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1883, p. 163). Eggs in the Pryer 

 collection are pinkish white spotted with reddish brown, and with 

 lilac underlying markings ; they resemble eggs of the European 

 Blackbird in size, but in colour they scarcely differ from eggs of the 

 Chinese and Indian Bulbuls belonging to the genus Pycnonotus. 



30. HYPSIPETES SQUAMICEPS. 

 (BONIN-ISLAND BULBUL.) 



Oriolus squamieeps, Kittlitz, M^m. pr^s. 4 I'Acad. Imp. des Sciences de St. 

 PStersbourg, par divers savans, 1830, p. 241. 



The Bonin-Island Bulbul is larger than its Japanese ally (wing 

 from carpal joint 5"5 to 4'8), and is suffused with chestnut-brown, 

 not only on the ear-coverts and flanks, but also on the throat and 

 belly. 



Figures : Kittlitz, Kupfertafeln zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel, 

 pi. 12. fig. 1, under the name of Galgulus amaurotis. 



This Bulbul is only known from the Bonin and the Loo-Choo 

 Islands ; but inasmuch as examples from the latter locality are on 

 an average smaller than the typical form from the former, they may 

 be regarded as subspecifically distinct. The comparative measure- 

 ments of the two races are as follows : — 



The measurements are in English inches ; the wing is measured 

 from the carpal joint, and the bill from the frontal feathers. The 

 two races do not differ in colour. 



The typical form was discovered by Kittlitz in 1828, and was de- 

 seabed by him in 1830 as an Oriolus. When he figured it in 1832, 



