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8. lole holti. 



Hvpsipetes holti, Swinhoe, Ibis, 18G1, pp. 2GG, 409 ; id. P. Z. S. 18G3, 



p. 277. 

 Hvpsipetes holki, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 272, no. 3990 (lapsu). 

 Hvpsipetes maclellandi {nee Horsf.), SwitJi. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 369 ; 



Dadid Sf Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 135. 



Adult male (Pili-ling Hills, near Foocliow, May 29, 1857 ; H. 

 Swinhoe : type of species). Creneral colour above ashy brown, with 

 lighter brown shaft-streaks to the feathers ; scapulars like the back ; 

 wings olive-green, contrasting with the back, the quills dusky brown, 

 externally olive-green, the secondaries entirely of the latter colour; 

 upper tail-coverto and tail-feathers olive-green, the shafts of the 

 latter reddish brown above, yellow beneath ; head chestnut-brown, 

 the feathers lanceolate in shape, with dull whitish shaft-streaks ; 

 ear-coverts light cinnamon-red ; cheeks and lores, as well as the 

 throat, dull white, the feathers lanceolate in shape, and mottled 

 with light ashy bases ; fore neck light rufous, with pale centres to 

 the feathers, fading into buff on the rest of the under surface, the 

 sides being ashy brown slightly tinged with nifous, the thighs more 

 distinctly rufescent ; under tail-coverts olive- yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and asillaries reddish buff ; quills brown below, olive-yellow 

 along the inner webs ; " bill blackish brown ; legs and claws brown" 

 (Swinhoe). Total length 8 inches, culmen 1, wing 4-1, tail 3-95, 

 tarsus 0-65. (2Ins. H. Secholim.) 



Holt's Bulbul replaces the Eufous-bellied Bulbul, with which it 

 has been erroneously united, in the Pih-liug hills, near Foochow. 

 The type specimen still remains the only one known. 



8. PINAROCICHLA *. 



Type. 

 ? Euptilosus, Reichenh. Si/sf. Ar. pi. o4. fig. 13 ("1857) .... ? P. euptilosa. 



Head of Pinarocichla euptilosa, to show peculiar crest. 

 Range. Malacca, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



* There can be little doubt that Ecicbenbach's generic name Ei'p/ilosm is 

 founded on the Bnirhi/pus eiip/ilosiis, and the species might therefore be called 

 Euptilosus trisfis (Blyth). I consider, however, that a protest should be made 

 against the adoption of specific names as genera ; and when, as in the present 

 instance, the bird is well characterized and named by the original describers, 

 the specific name first given should on no account be set aside. If E«ichen- 



