46 TIITELIID^. 



2. Ixocincla borbonica. 



Le Merle de 1 isle de Bourbon, Bn'ss. Oni. ii. p. 293, pi. xxiv. fig. 3. 



Bourbon Thrush, Zafh. Gen. Si/n. ii. part 1, p. 73. 



Turdus borbonicus, G?n. Syst. Nat. i. p. 821. 



Hypsipetes borbonica, fUch'l. lSJ- Poll. Faun. Madar/. p. 97 ; A. Newton, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 284 ; Gray, Hancl-l. B. i. p. 273, no. 3994 ; Hartl. 



Vog. Madag. pp. 140,409; A. Newton, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. 



p. 50, pi. xlii. iig. 2 (head). 



Adult. General colour above uniform dark olivo-greeu, somewhat 

 washed with grey on the hinder neck ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back; median and greater coverts and quills dark brown, slightly 

 washed with olive-green, more conspicuous on the secondaries ; 

 rump somewhat washed with pale reddish brown ; upper tail- 

 coverts dark olive-grccn, like the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 slightly washed with olive on the outer webs, and with an appear- 

 ance of bands, the shafts whitish; on the lores a scarcely per- 

 ceptible shade of grey ; sides of face and ear-coverts, as well as tho 

 sides of the neck, throat, and breast, dark iron-grey, inclining to 

 black at the base of the chin and lower mandible, and here and 

 there faintly tinged with olive ; lower breast and flanks dusky 

 olive, the latter browner, as also the thighs ; centre of abdomen 

 yellowish white; under tail-coverts brown, edged with yellowish 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light brown ; quills ashy 

 brown below, greyish ash "along the edge of the inner web ; " bill 

 orange ; feet brownish yellow, the claws dusky ; iris whitish " 

 (Hartlai(b). Total length 9 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4'0, tail 4-1, 

 tarsus 0-95. 



The Bourbon Bulbul is confined to the island of Bourbon or 

 Keunion. 

 a. Ad. sk. R(5union. Purchased. 



3. Ixocincla olivacea. 



Hypsipetes ganeesa?, Jai-d. ^- Selhy, III. Orn. iii. pi. cxlviii. [nee 



'Sykes). 

 Hypsipetes olivacea, iid. oj). cit. iv. (new series), text to pi. ii. ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 208 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 20(5 ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 261 ; Hartl. Faun. Madag. p. 44 ; E. Neivt. Ibis, 



1861, p. 271 : Schl. 4 Poll. Faim. Madag. p. 98 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



1. p. 273, no. .3995 ; Hartl. Vog. Madag. pp. 138, 409 ; A. Newton, 



in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 51, pi. xlii. fig. 3 (head). 

 Ixocincla olivacea, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 575, 

 Turdus atricilla, Cuv. MS. in Mus. Paris ; Puc/ier. Arch. Mus. vii. 



p. 340. 



Adult. General colour above ashy grey with a grecuish gloss, 

 tho rump and upper tail-coverts somewhat washed with olive- 

 brown ; crown of head glossy black, base of forehead hoary grey ; 

 lores black ; sides of face and throat hoary grey ; sides of neck 

 and hinder neck ashy grey ; remainder of under surface of body 

 dull ashy, the flanks earthy brown ; lower abdomen and under 



