10. MICROPTJS. 69 



least wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater series a 

 Jittle lighter grey, paler on the margins ; bastard- wing, primary- 

 coverts, and primaries blackish brown, with scarcely perceptible grey 

 edgings, the inner secondaries externally margined with hoary 

 white, the innermost secondaries entirely grey on the outer webs • 

 crown of head, sides of head, and throat metallic green, with pur- 

 plish reflections under certain lights ; remainder of under surface of 

 body dark ashy grey, much paler in the centre of tlie body ; under 

 tail-coverts ashy grey, with white tips and margins ; thighs white • 

 under wing-coverts and axiUaries white, the edge of the wing grey' 

 as also the adjoining under wing-coverts ; quills dusky brown below, 

 white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6-6 inches 

 culmen 0-G, wing ;i-05, tail 27, tarsus 0-6. 



The Javau Elack-headcd Eulbul is only known from the island of 

 Java, where it is apparently by no means a common bird. 



"■ ^ ''^- ^'^- Java. Purchased. 



6. Micropus melanoleucus. 



Microtarsus melanoleucus, Ei/ton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 102 ; Bh/th, Cat 

 B. Mm As. Soc. p. 211 ; Borsf. ^- Moore, Cut B. Mus. E.I. Co. 

 \. p. 248 ; Moore, P. Z. S. l8o4', p. 279; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 202. 

 JMicroscehs, sp. .3, Grmj, Gen. B. i. p. 235. 

 Microscelis tristis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 263 {nee Bhjtli). 

 Ixos vidua, Tvmm. in Mus. Luijd., tinde 

 Brachypus vidua, Bp. Consp. i. p. 264. 



Ixocherus vidua, Bp. Notes Coll. Delattre in C. R. 1854, p 58 

 Microscehs melanoleucus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 268, no 3919. 

 Adult. General colour above sooty black, a little deeper on the 

 head ; least wmg-covcrts black ; median and greater coverts creamy 

 white, tipped with black, more broadly on the outer median 

 coverts, which have therefore the appearauce of large ovate spots of 

 white; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black ; tail-feathers 

 black ; under surface of body sooty black, deeper black on the sides 

 ot the lace and chin; under wing-coverts black, with concealed 

 white bases; axillaries pure white, black at the extreme base; 

 qui Is dusky blackish below, ashy white along the inner web ; « iria 

 dark brown '\{Henrxj Everett). Total length 7-1 inches, cultneu 0-7, 

 wing 3-4.3, tail 3, tarsus 0-G. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 7 inches, cul- 

 men 0-65, wing 3-2, tail 2-So, tarsus 0-5. 



Several specimens in the Museum are changing from an immature 

 dress into the sooty-ldack plumage of the adult ; and it woiUd ap- 

 pear that the young plumage is olive-brown above and below, hut 

 paler on the under surface, while the white patch on the wino- ig 

 absent. In this stage of plumage the bird is very like a small 

 Pijcnonotus of the plain olive group, but its white axillaries will 

 always distinguish it. 



Tlie White- winged Black Bulbul is frequent in collections from the 

 JVIahiyan iwuinsula, where it ranges as high as Province Wellesley ; 

 it occurs m Borneo also, but is not so common in the latter island. 

 It Ls not known to be migratory. 



