This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... westward into Persia. Habits, dec. 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 III. Zeaeogenys, and measure '83 by '64. 286. Molpastes humii. Hume's White-ear-eel Bulbul. Colo: -ation. Resembles M. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... westward into Persia. Habits, dec. 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 III. Zeaeogenys, and measure '83 by '64. 286. Molpastes humii. Hume's White-ear-eel Bulbul. Colo: -ation. Resembles M. Zeaeotis. Differs in having the crest much longer and the under tail-coverts sulphur-yellow. Bill, legs, and feet black; ii'is brovn (Hume). Length 8; tail 3'4; wing 3'7; tarsus '75; bill from gape '75. Amongst a large series of M. Zeuootis in the British Museum, I detected one specimen which difiered remarkably from all the others in the colour of its under tail-coverts, and on further examining it I found that it had a much longer crest than the others. IVI. Zeaeotis is remarkably constant in having saffron-yellow coverts and a short bushy crest. I have therefore no hesitation in separating M. hamii, and naming it after Hume, who procured the only specimen I have been able to examine at Jalalpoor near Jhelum, in the Punjab, in 1871. From M. Zeacogenys it differs, among other things, in having the crest much shorter and of a diflerent shape and colour. Genus XANTHIXUS, n. gen. I institute this genus for the reception of X. flavese/ms, a Bulbul which differs from all its near allies 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 ii in many respects that of Hemi'a'as. The wing is blunt, as in Molpastes. Coloration. Forehead and crown dark brown, the feathers of the front half of the crown edged with grey, those of the hinder half with olive-green; upper plumage olive-green, the feathers of the backwith darker centres; wings and...
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