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the inner webs ; lesser and median wing- coverts like the back, but 

 stronglj' washed with ashy grey, the sliaft-lines not very distinct ; 

 greater coverts, primary -coverts, and (jiiills brown, externally 

 washed with olive-yellow ; forehead and crown of head deep straw- 

 yellow, brighter on the former, the feathers crisp and velvety in 

 texture ; the occipital plumes, nape, and hind neck ashy brown, with 

 very conspicuous white shaft-streaks ; ear-coverts also brown, with 

 dull whitish centres; lores black; behind the ej'e a bare space; 

 ej'elid, a streak running from the base of the lores below the eye, 

 and another one surmounting the cheeks, to which it is parallel, 

 deep straw-yellow ; cheeks black ; throat dull white ; lower throat, 

 breast, and sides of body brown, washed with ashy grey, and having 

 distinct white shaft-streaks, the latter less strongly marked on the 

 sides of the body, which are paler and slightly washed with olive ; 

 centre of body Mhity brown ; thighs deep fawn-colour ; under tail- 

 coverts light fawn-brown, washed with olive-yellow, and having 

 shaft-lines of duU white ; axillaries light brown like the flanks ; 

 imder wing-coverts pale ashy brown, strongly washed with olive- 

 yellow ; quills dusky brown below, pale yellow along the inner 

 webs; "bill black; legs and feet dark horny brown or black; 

 irjdes brown, pale or litharge red" {Davison), Total length 9"5 inches, 

 culmeu 0-9, wing 4-35, tail 4, tarsus 1. 



Adult male (West Java ; AVaUace). Similar to the female, but 

 larger. Total length 11 inches, culmen 0*95, wing 4-95, tail 4-8, 

 tarsus 1, 



The Yellow-crowned Bulbul is found in Java, Sumatra, and 

 Borneo, and ranges through tlie Malayan peninsula to the southern- 

 most districts of Tenasserim, inhabiting the scrub and jungle rather 

 than the thick forests. 



a. Ad. sk. Tenasserim {Heifer), India Museum. 



5. 2 ad. sk. Malacca. A.R.AVallace, Esq.[C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Penang {Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



f7,<?. Ad. sk. Malacca (C'«M<or). India Museum. 



/. Ad. st. Malacca. Purchased. 



f/. Ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



h. S ad. sk. Siedjounjong, Sumatra Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw 



(C. Bock). Ramsay. 



J. c? ad. sk. West Java. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. West Java {E. C. F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



Buxton). 



Z. c? ad. sk. Sarawak. A. R.WaUace, Esq. [C.]. 



10. XENOCICHLA. ^ 



Type. 



Xenocichla, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 86 {descr. mdla). 

 Bleda, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1859 {teste Ilartl.). 

 Xenocichla, Cass. Pr. Fhilad. Acad. 1859, p. 44 (e.r 



Hartl.) X. syndactyla. 



Pyrrhurus, Cass. t. c. p. 46 (1859) X. scandens. 



Bffiopogon, Heine, J.f. 0. 1800, p. 139 X. indicator. 



Trichites, Heine, t. c. p. lo9 X seriua. 



