2. AETHORHYXCnUS. 



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black, both median and greater coverts broadly tipped with white ; 

 in many specimens the tortiaries and the latest secondaries are 

 broadly margined at the tips with white, but in some this is less 

 conspicuous, and in some towards the close of the breeding-season it 

 is almost entirely wanting on the tertiaries ; the primaries and 

 secondaries hair-brown, more or less of the outer webs towards 

 their bases blackish, and margined on their outer webs very nar- 

 rowly (in some more, in some less) conspicuously with white. The 

 abdomen is like the breast, but paler ; in some with a greenish 

 tinge towards the sides and on its lower half, and in other cases 

 looking (in skins) nearly white, owing to the intermixture of the 

 long silky white feathers of the flank-tufts ; wing-lining and axil- 

 laries, and more or less of the inner margins of the quills, satiny 

 white ; a slight primrose tinge at the bend of the wing. {Hume, 

 Str. Feaih. 1877, p. 443.) 



Female. The females and males in non-breeding plumage have 

 the entire undorparts a pale mealy yellow, slightly shaded with 

 olive-green ; the head is similar, but not quite so light ; the nape 

 and entire back similar, but much more strongly overlaid with olive- 

 green. The wings and tail are as in the breeding-season, except 

 that the wings have the margins, especially of the tertiaries, very- 

 conspicuous and much tinged with pale yellow, that the greater 

 coverts often have pale yellow margins besides the white tips, and 

 that the central tail-feathers are almost entirely greyish white, 

 tipped pure white, and with the outer webs in many specimens 

 more or less shaded with ashy, or occasionally olivaceous ashy. 

 (Hume, I. c.) 



The range of Marshall's Dwarf Bulbul is given by Mr. Hume as 

 follows — Western India (Kutch, Deesa, Anadra at the foot of 

 Mount Aboo, Sambbur, Koochawun, Agra, Muttra, Delhi, Etawah, 

 Jhangi, Sambulpoor, Allygur, Meerut, Saharunpoor)-. 



2. AETHORHYNCHUS. 



Type. 



Aethorhynchus, SimdcvaU, Ai\ Mefh. Tent. p. 8 (1872) . A. lafresnayii. 

 rhojuicomanes, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 427 A. lafresnayii. 



Wiug o^ Acthorhjnchus xanthotis, to show proportions of primaries aud 

 secondaries. 



Similar in form and colour to JEgWiina, but with the bill longer, 



about equal to the head in length; third quill equal to the secondaries. 



lianye. From the Burmese countries into the Malayan peninsula. 



