BLANFORD'S BULBUL. 
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that this Bulbul likes. It has a pleasant^ cheerful note^ and where one bird 
is seen others will generally be founds but each acts independently. 
I found two nests of this Bulbul near Kyeikpadein at the commencement 
of June. One was placed in a bush and the other in a creeper about four 
feet from the ground. The nests were flimsy^ shallow cups made of dry 
weeds and lined with grass and contained two eggs each. The eggs are 
pinkish white marked with red and purple. 
190. PYCNONOTUS BLANFORDI. 
BLANFOED^S BULBUL. 
Pycnonotus blanfordi, Jerd. Ihis, 1862, p. 20 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 659 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. vi. p. 151. Pycnonotus familiaris, Bl. J. A. 8. B. 
xxxi. p. 343. Microtarsus blanfordi, Hume, S. F. iii. p. 125. Ixus blan- 
fordi, Bl. B. Burm. p. 134 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 156 ; Hmne, S. F. viii. p. 98 ; Oates, 
S. F. X. p. 210. 
Description. — Male and female. Cheeks and throat dull white ; ear- 
coverts silvery white ; lores greyish^ tinged with fulvous ; the whole upper 
plumage and tail olive-brow^n_, the forehead paler and the feathers of the 
forehead and crown dark-centred ; wing of the same colour as the upper 
parts^ the outer webs narrowly margined with dull fulvous-yellow ; neck 
and breast brownish grey mingled with a good deal of fulvous ; abdomen, 
sides of the body_, under wdng- and tail-coverts nearly pure fulvous, brighter 
on the coverts. 
The plumage varies very much according to the time of the year. The 
above description is drawn up from a freshly moulted bird. 
The iris varies from yellowish brow^n to red ; eyelids plumbeous ; bill 
brown, paler at the base of the lower mandible and gape ; mouth flesh- 
colour ; legs plumbeous ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 7*7 inches, tail 3*2, wing 3'2, tarsus '85,^11 from gape "85. The 
female is of much the same size. 
Blanford^s Bulbul is found all over Pegu except on the higher hills and 
in the deep forests of the plains. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay states that it is 
common in the Karin hills in small flocks. It has not yet been found in 
Arrakan or Tenasserim. 
It is a very common and familiar bird, frequenting gardens and the out- 
skirts of cultivation. It has an excessively harsh note. I have very frequently 
found its nest in the neighbourhood of Pegu. It begins to breed at the 
commencement of April and builds a shallow, loosely constructed, cup- 
shaped nest of small twigs lined with grass, and lays three eggs. The nest 
is placed in bushes at no great height from the ground. The eggs are pink 
marked with purplish red. 
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