11. CEINIGER. 87 



21. Criniger aureus. 



Oriniger aureus, Tfaldcii, Ann. Nat. Ilist. (4) ix. p. 400 ; Meyer, 

 J.f. O. 1873, p. 404 ; id. Fuis, 1879, p. 130. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above rich olive- 

 yellow, lighter on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 

 ■which are washed with orange, a slight tinge of which is also ap- 

 parent on the mantle and back ; wing-coverts like the back, the 

 median and greater series narrowly edged with brighter yellow ex- 

 ternally ; quills dark brown, externally bright olive-yelloAV tinged 

 with orange, the inner secondaries olive-yellow with a stronger 

 wash of orange ; tail-feathers dark olive-yellow, the centre ones 

 washed with orange ; all of the rectrices tipped with bright yellow, 

 which extends along the inner web of the feathers for nearly the 

 entire length, excepting on the centre ones, which have only a 

 narrow yellow tip ; lores j'cllow ; ear-coverts and cheeks dark olive- 

 yellow like the head ; throat and under surface of body rich golden 

 j'ellow inclining to orange ; under tail-coverts rich orange-yellow ; 

 fore neck and sides of breast washed with olive ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries golden yellow ; quills dusky brown, yellow along the 

 edge of the inner web. Total length 10 inches, culmen Ivl, wing 

 4-9, tail 4-6, tarsus 0-8. {Mns. 11. G. Wnnlhnv liamsaif.) 



Meyer's Bulbul is only known from the Togian Islands. 



22. Criniger longirostris. 



Criniger longirostris, H «//. F. Z. S. 1802, p. 339 ; Grni/, Iland-I. B. 



i. p^ :i74, no. 401 9. 

 Tricliophoriis longirostris, FmscJt, Neu-Guinea, p. 1G8. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above olive-yellow, 

 rather brighter on the lower back and rump, and a little duller on 

 the head ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts and quills blackish, externallj- olive-yellow, brighter on the 

 extreme margins of the feathers ; tail-feathers dull olive-yellow, 

 tipped with pale yellow, principally on the inner web, where it in- 

 creases gradually in size towards the outer feathers, and extends 

 some way along the margin of the inner web ; sides of head olive- 

 green, washed with brighter yellow on the lores and streaked with 

 brighter yellow on the ear-coverts ; throat olive-yellow, duller on 

 the fore neck and breast, all of these parts indistinctly streaked with 

 yellow shaft-lines ; remainder of the under surface bright yellow, a 

 little washed with olive on the sides of the body ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries bright yellow ; quills dark brown below, 

 yellow along tlie edge of the inner web. Total length 10-2 inches, 

 culmen 1"2, wing 4-S, tail 4-5, tarsus 0-85. 



The Long-billed ]?nlbnl is only known from the Sula Islands, 

 near Celebes, where it is apparently a resident, like the rest of the 

 ffcnus. 



