44 timeltim:. 



olive ; fore part of cheeks and throat white, slightly washed with 

 yellow ; remainder of under surface of body pale yellowish, the 

 feathers being edged with this colour ; sides of the upper breast 

 dusky ash-colour, washed with olive-green ; the flanks washed with 

 olive ; thighs light yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 washed with pale yellow ; quills dusky brown below, whitish along 

 the edge of the inner web ; " bill deep horny brown ; lower man- 

 dible and edge of upper mandible duU yellow ; legs and feet dark 

 horny, greenish brown, or greenish plumbeous ; irides brown " 

 (Hume). Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-9, tail '3--i, 

 tarsus 0-75. 



The sexes are alike, but specimens vary a good deal in tint. No 

 perceptible ditference in size of sexes (Hitmc). 



The Nicobar Bulbul inhabits the central islands of the Nicobar 

 group. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Nicobar Islands. India Museum. 



d. S ad. sk. Nicobar Islands, Jan. 18, 1874 R. B. Sliarpe, Esq. [P.]. 



(Cajjt. Wimherley). 



e. S fid. sk. Camorta Island, Dec. 1873 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



( Capt. Wimherky). 



5. IXOCINCLA. Type. 



Ixocincla, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 575 (1845) I. oUvacea. 



Anepsia, Reichenh. Syst. Av. pi. liv. tig. 3. 



Cf. A. Neidon, in Dmoson Roioley^s Orn. Misc. ii. pp. 41-52. 



Foot of Ixocincla madagascariensis, to show scutellations on tarsus. 



Range. Madagascar and the Comoro Islands ; Mauritius, Bourbon, 

 and the Seychelles. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat and sides of neck grey ; tail not 



tipped with white. 



«'. Back bluish grey: wing4'l inches madagascariensis, p. 45. 



h'. Back dark olive. 



a". Under tail-coverts brown, with didl 



whitish edgings: wing 4-6 inches. . . . horbonica, p. 46. 

 b". Under tail-coverts yellowish white : 



wing 5'5 inches , olivacea, p. 46. 



b. Throat and sides of neck olive yellowish ; 



tail-feathers edged and tipped with white : 



wing 4'95 inches crassirostris, p. 47. 



