12 TIMELIIBiE. 



f. S )iiv. sk. Sautubong Bay. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



q. cj ad. sk. Jaitibusan. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.j. 



/»,«. S ad.; h. 2 ad.sk. Labiian. Iluoh Low, Esq. [C.]. 



I, m. d, n, o. $ ad.sk. Labuan (H. Low). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



p. c? ad. sk. Puerto Princesa, Prof. J. B. Steere [C.]. 



Palawan. 



Subsp. /3. .ffigithina scapularis. 



lora scapularis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 152 ; id. Zool. Re- 

 search, in Java, pi. 45 ; Ilartl. Mag. de Zool. 1845, Ois. texte to 

 pi. 00 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 199 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 396; Cab. Mus. 

 Hein. Tli. i". p. 70 ; Jlorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. 

 p. 265 (pt.) ; Bernst. J.f. O. 185!), p. 277 ; Je.rd. B. Ind. ii. p. 104. 



iE"-ithina scapularis, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 31G, no. 4727 ; Nichols. 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 167, 1881," p. 148. 



Adult male. Differs from J^. ti];>lua in never having the head or 

 back black, and the tail always being greenish, like the female of 

 xE. tiplda. Total length 5 inches, culmeu 0-65, wing 2-5, tail 1-9, 

 tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, bnt the wing not so black. Total 

 length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-4, tail 2, tarsus 0-75. 



The Javan Dwarf Bulbul appears to be confined to the island of 

 Java, where it is not an uncommon species. 



a. Ad. sk. Java {Horsjield). India Museum, (Tj^e 



of species.) 



6, e, d. Ad. sk. Java {Horsjield). India JSIuseum. 



e. 2 ad. sk. East Java. A.R.Wallace,Esq.[C.]. 



f-o. Ad. sk. West Java (E. C. Buxton). F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



P V- 6 2 ^^- s^' Java {Let/den Museum). F. Godman and 0. Sal- 

 via, Esqrs. [P.]. 



3. .ffigithina nigrolutea. 



lora nioTolutea, G. F. L. 3Iarshall, Sir. F. 1876, p. 410; Hume, Sir. 

 F. 1877, pp. 134, 441, vii. 1878, p. 454, 1879, p. 99. 



Adult male. In breeding-plumage the male has the forehead, 

 crown, occiput, and nape glossy black, the black terminating in a 

 Avell-defincd curved line ; the chin, throat, cheeks, ear-coverts, 

 breast, sides of neck, and a broad half-collar occupying the base of 

 the back of the neck and the upper back intense gamboge-j-cllow, 

 exactly the colour of the breast in Ceylon ^E. tiphia ( J ) in breeding- 

 plumage, llarely this collar is entirely uniform ; generally a few 

 of the central feathers are narrowly fringed at the tips with black, 

 occasionally most of the feathers arc so fringed. Mid back glossy 

 black, rarely imbroken, generally with a little of the yellow (or, 

 towards the rump, greenish) bases of the feathers showing through, 

 in one specimen with a good deal of this ; rump pale greenish, the 

 white bases to the feathers often showing through a good deal ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail black, the former with a bluish gloss, 

 the latter with all the feathers broadly tipped with white, the white 

 not unfrcquently running some distance up the margin of the inner, 

 and in a few cases of the outer webs also. Coverts and tcrtiaries 



