190 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
The Burmese Red-vented Bulbul occurs in every portion of Pegu^ and 
is a very common bird. Dr. Armstrong appears^ however^ to have noticed 
it only at Elephant Point and nowhere else in the Irrawaddy Delta. 
Round about Rangoon it is particularly abundant. Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay observed it at Tonghoo ; and probably the Sittang river is about 
the eastern boundary of the species. Mr. Blyth states that it occurs 
in Arrakan ; and I have no doubt that it is as abundant in that Division 
as in Pegu. 
It extends through the Indo-Burmese countries up to Cachar. Dr. 
Anderson^s specimens, procured east of Bhamo, are identical with Burmese 
examples. 
The Bulbuls of this genus are all more or less familiar birds, which 
frequent gardens, the neighbourhood of houses and villages and the sides 
of roads. The present species especially is very well known, as it visits 
every garden in the province and is confiding in its habits. It commences 
to nest in April, or perhaps earlier, and makes a rather bulky cup-shaped 
nest of leaves and roots, which it places in a shrub, or in a creeper, or on 
the low branch of a tree, in no case at any very great height from the 
ground. It usually lays three eggs, which are very beautifully marked 
with purple and red. The note of these Bulbuls is particularly cheerful 
and pleasant ; but they cannot be said to have any thing approaching a 
song. 
184. PYCNONOTUS ATRICAPILLUS. 
THE CHINESE RED-VENTED BULBUL. 
Muscicapa atricapilla, VieilL Nouv. Diet. d'Hist, Nat. xxi. p. 489. Haematornis 
chrysorrhoides, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 367. Molpastes chrysorrhoides, 
Hume, S. F. ii. p. 477. Pycnonotus atricapillus, Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. 
p. 136 ; ^harpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. p. 127. Ixus chrysorrhoides, David 
et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 142, pi. xlvi. Molpastes atricapillus, Hume 8r Dav. 
S. F. vi. p. 322 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 99. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and crown of head, lores, chin 
and cheeks black; throat, ear-coverts, sides of neck and whole lower 
plumage whity brown ; under tail-coverts crimson ; the ear-coverts 
generally tinged with pale fulvous ; tail brown, paler at the base, all the 
feathers tipped with white ; back and scapulars brown, each feather edged 
paler ; rump plain brown ; upper tail-coverts whity brown, the longer ones 
tipped with darker brown ; wings and coverts all brown, edged on the 
exterior with a paler shade of the same. 
Iris brown ; legs and bill black. 
