42 TIMELIID-E. 



Tuvdus melaleucus, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 1. 



Microscelis juelanoleucus, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 23o ; Kor^f. 8( 



Moore, Cat. B. Mies. E.L Co. i. p. 249 ; Gray, Ha7id-l. B. i. 



p. 268, no. 3918. 

 Hvpsipetes niveiceps. Sioinh. Ibis, 1864, p. 424 ; Gray, Hand-l B. i. 



■p. 272, no. 3991. 

 Hypsipetes leucocephaliis, Swinh. T. Z. S. 1871, p. 3G9 ; Gray, Fasc. 



B. China, pi. 2 ; David ^y Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 136, pi. 44. 



Adult [foncJe]. General colour above slaty blackish, with a faint 

 greenish gloss ; wing-coverts like the back, as also the qnills ; tail- 

 feathers blackish brown ; crown of head, feathers round the eye, 

 fore part of cheeks, and chin snow-white ; ear-coverts slaty grey, 

 tin^-ed with brown ; throat and under surface of body slaty grey, 

 lighter than the up])er surface, the flanks somewhat washed with 

 brown ; abdomen slightly mottled with white, with which some of 

 the feathers are rather broadly edged ; under tail-coverts ashy 

 brown, with broad white margins ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries ashy brown ; quills ashy brown below, whitish along the 

 inner webs ; " biU coral-red ; feet reddish orange " {R. Swinhoe) ; 

 " iris blackish " (David). Total length 9-3 inches, culmen 0-95, 

 wing 4-4, tail 3-6, tarsus 0-75. 



A female in Lieut. ^Yardlaw Eamsay's collection from Ningpo 

 (Swi7ihoe) measures as follows — Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 

 0-9, wing 4-5, tail 3-8, tarsus 0-75. There seems to be a difference 

 in the specimens, the latter female being much more grey than a 

 8watow specimen (Svinhoe), also in "Wardlaw Eamsay's collection, 

 which is blacker underneath. 



The adidt male does not appear to be represented in English col- 

 lections, but in the Paris Museum are several examples of this 

 sex. The plumage is a fine glossy black, and the entire head, neck, 

 throat, and breast are snow-white. 



The AVhite-headed Black Bulbul occm-s only in the hiU-ranges of 

 China, 

 a. Ad. sk. Fokien, China. John Gould; Esq. 



7. Hypsipetes amaurotis. 



Turdus amaurotis, Tetnm. PL Col. ii. pi. 497 ; Less. Traite, p. 410. 

 Oriolus gquamiceps, Kittl. Mem. Acad. St.Petersh.des SavansEtrany. 



i. p. 241, pi. xvi. (1831). 

 Microscelis amaurotis, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 28 ; id. Gen. B. 



i. p. 235 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 263 ; Sorsf. 4'- Moore, Cat. B. Mns. 



E.L Co. i. p. 249; Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 199; Gray, Hand-I. B. 



i. p. 268, no. 3916 ; Swinh. Ibis, 1872, p. 207. 

 Galgulus amaurotis, Kittl. Knpf. Vny. Heft 1, p. 8, pi. xii. fig. 1. _ 

 Orpheus amaurotis, Temm.S,- Schl. Faun. Jap.,Aves, p. 68, pi. xxxi. B. 

 Hj-p.'^ipetes amaurotis, Swinh. Lbis, 1864, p. 158 ; Bhkist. S,- Pryer, 



Lbis, 1878, p. 240; David ^ Oustalei, Ois. Chine, p. 135. 



Adtdt male. General colour above slaty grey, washed with olive 

 on the lower back and rump ; the head clearer and more silvery 

 grey, especially at the tips, giving a distinctly streaked ai)pcarance, 



