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the sweetest music. It is a lively active bird^ and Mr. Jer- 
don mentions it as being abundant on the summit of the 
Neilgherries^ where its warbling, chirruping notes must 
prove pleasing to many an invalid. 
Mr. Vigne^ says that the Bulbul of Kashmir {Txos leuco- 
genys) is but a sorry substitute for the European nightin- 
gale : His note resembles that of the English blackbird, but 
is by no means so full and musical. He is about seven inches 
and a half in length ; bill, head, and legs black ; general 
colour of plumage olive greenish-brown, with a white spot 
behind the eye, and white tips to the tail-feathers ; on the 
head is a black pointed crest, beautifully curved forward like 
the plume of a helmet; his manners are those of a tomtit, 
quarrelsome and noisy, but amusing and very bold, as they 
will sometimes come into a room where a person is sitting. 
He differs from the bulbul of the plains in having a yellow 
patch under the tail, whereas that of the latter is red ; and 
in the hills between Kashmir the spot is of a transition 
colour, between red and yellow.^^ 
The family of the Ely-catchers, MusciCAPiDiE, is an ex- 
tensive one, with horizontally-depressed beak, furnished with 
bristles at its base. The Tyrant Ely-catchers [TyramiincB) 
* Travels in Kashmir, etc., by G. T. Vigne, Esq., vol: ii. p. 20. 
