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tail-coverts yellowish white, the latter slightly mottled with brown 

 bases to the feathers ; under wing-coverts light fawn-colour, 

 many of the feathers edged with white ; quills below ashy, whitish 

 along the inner web ; upper wing-coverts ashy grey like the back, 

 4;he greater coverts brown, externally edged with ashy grey, the 

 innermost entirely ashy grey ; primary-coverts rather darker brown, 

 washed with ashy ; quills dari brown, slightly edged with ashy, 

 the secondaries more broadly washed with the same colour as the 

 back on their outer webs ; tail-feathers brown, narrowly edged with 

 the same colour as the back, the quills dark brown above, white 

 below ; " bill j-ellow, orange at the tips ; feet pale ; iris shining 

 reddish yellow.'' Total length 10"5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing oo, 

 tail 4-5, tarsus 1. 



The Mauritian Bulbul is confined to the island of Mauritius. 



a. Ad. St. Mauritius. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Mauritius. John Gould, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. [Mauritius.] Zoological Society. 



4. Ixocincla crassirostris. 



Hvpsipetes crassirostris, U. Xcict. P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 334; id. Ihis, 

 "18U7, p. 344 ; Grai/, Hand-I. B. i. p. 273, no. 3990 ; A. Neiot. in 

 Rowh'ifs Orn. Misc. ii. p. 52, pi. xlii. figs, id, 45; Ousted. Bull. 

 Soc. Philom. (7) i. p. 101 ; Hartl. Voff. Madag. pp. 137, 409 ; Ousted. 

 Bull. Soc. Philom. 1878, p. 172. 



Adult female (Praslin, Lantz). General colour above dark olive- 

 green, the upper surface somewhat mottled with the darker brown 

 bases to the feathers ; outer upper tail- coverts with pale yellowish 

 margins ; lenst wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater 

 series brown, more or less distinctly washed with dull olive on the 

 outer web ; tail-feathers brown, edged along the inner web with duU 

 white, which also extends a little way up the tip of the outer web ; 

 crown of head glossy black, forming a distinct cap ; lores indistinctly 

 washed with dull olive ; sides of face and sides of neck diUl olive, 

 extending on to the sides of the neck ; the cheeks and chin rather 

 darker, and mottled with dusky bases to the feathers ; throat and 

 breast olive, shading off a little browner on the flanks ; many of the 

 feathers on the throat and breast tipped with a spot of olive-yellow; 

 centre of the body yellowish white, as also the under tail-covcrts, the 

 latter with concealed brown bases ; thighs dingy brown, edged with 

 pale yellow ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries jellowish white, 

 slightly mottled with ashy-brown bases ; quills ashy brown below, 

 lighter ashy along the edge of the miicr web ; " bill dull orange ; 

 feet dusky yellow, the claws black ; iridcs dusky red" {E. Newton). 

 Total length 9-3 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 4*95, tail 4, tarsus 1. 

 {Mus. ir. E. ^hdlcy.) 



Intmaturc. Has the quills externally pale reddish brown, and a 

 good many of the feathers of the back of a dull reddish-brown colour. 

 {Mus. G.E. Shelly.) 



