42 SHRIKE. 



tending to the hindhead ; beneath each eye a lively red spot ; 

 plumage on the upper parts of the body brown, on the under dirty 

 white ; vent rose-colour ; on the lower part of the neck and breast a 

 brownish band; quills brown; tail greatly cuneiform, the four outer 

 feathers tipped with white; legs black. 



Inhabits China, and various parts of India ; said to have a most 

 harsh note,* though Le Bran compares it to that of a Nightingale ; 

 be this as it may, it has gained the name of Bulbul, which signifies 

 that name. Is called the Fighting Nightingale, being often trained 

 to combat, for the amusement of the natives. f 



Captain Dixon had two of them, male and female, bought at 

 Canton, but was not able to bring them farther than the neighbour- 

 hood of the Cape of Good Hope, where they perished from neglect 

 in hard weather ; their food was rice, but they were most fond of 

 cock-roaches, on which they were principally fed. 



Among the drawings of the late Dr. Fothergill, one of these 

 birds had the throat black, and the breast and belly pale brown. 



Sonnerat's bird is rather small, the crest much elongated, and 

 pointed at the top, and the black streak at the corners of the mouth 

 not distinguishable. He observes, that it frequents the Coasts of 

 Malabar, Bengal, and Coromandel, at the last called Boulboul ; is 

 the Canera Boolbool of Hindustan, and Cauda Boulbool of Sylhet; 

 b}~ some called Kaundurau. The nest appears to be composed of 

 fibres, attached to two parts of a forked twig, in the shape of a long 

 purse, with a large hole on one side. Both sexes seem much alike. J 

 By the Chinese it is called Kowki-koon, or Cow-kee-Quan, which 

 means High-Hair-Hat, the people comparing the crested part to a 

 Chinese woman's head dress, or hat, which in that country is 

 composed of horse-hair, added to their own. The crest is not always 

 carried erect, but is only so at the will of the bird. 



* Mr. Pennant. f Said to be enamoured of the rose. — See Gent. Mag. 1799. p. 946. 



J Sir J. Anstruther's drawings, the crest of the female smaller. 



