. Birds. Birds. 274 CEATEROPODTD*. Length 7-5; tail 3 4; wing 3-5 ; tarsus '75 ; bill from gape -75. Distribution. Sind ; Cutch ; Guzerat; Eajputana; the Punjab ; the Provinces down to Btawah ; Central India as far east as Jhdnsi, Saugor, and Hoshangabad. This bird extends westward into Persia. Habits, SfC. Breeds from May to August, constructing a neat cup of vegetable fibres in bushes, and laying three or four eggs, which are similar to those of M. leueogenys, and measure "83 by •64. 286. Molpastes liiiinil. Hume's White-eared Bulbul. Coloration. Eesembles M. leueotis. Differs in h
. Birds. Birds. 274 CEATEROPODTD*. Length 7-5; tail 3 4; wing 3-5 ; tarsus '75 ; bill from gape -75. Distribution. Sind ; Cutch ; Guzerat; Eajputana; the Punjab ; the Provinces down to Btawah ; Central India as far east as Jhdnsi, Saugor, and Hoshangabad. This bird extends westward into Persia. Habits, SfC. Breeds from May to August, constructing a neat cup of vegetable fibres in bushes, and laying three or four eggs, which are similar to those of M. leueogenys, and measure "83 by •64. 286. Molpastes liiiinil. Hume's White-eared Bulbul. Coloration. Eesembles M. leueotis. Differs in having the crest much longer and the under tail-coverts sulphur-yellow. Bill, legs, and feet black; iris brown (Hume). Length 8; tail 3'4; wing 3-7; tarsus -75; biU from gape Kg. 87.—Head of M. humii. Amongst a large series of M. leueotis in the British Museum, I detected one specimen which differed remarkably from all the others in the colour of its under taU-coverts, and on further examining it I found that it had a much longer crest than the others. M. leM- cotis is remarkably constant in having saffron-yellow coverts and a short bushy crest. I have therefore no hesitation in separating M. humii, and naming it after Hume, who procured the only spe- cimen I have been able to examine at Jalalpoor near Jhelura, in the Punjab, in 1871. From M. leueogenys it differs, among other things, in having the crest much shorter and of a different shape and colour. Genus XANTHIXUS, n. gen. 1 institute this genus for the reception of X. Jlavescens, a Bulbul which differs from all its near aUies in the very decided graduation of its tail, the outer feather of which falls short of the tail bv a distance equal in length to the tarsus. The crest resembles" in many respects that of Hemixus, The wing is blunt, as in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of the
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