7. Xenocichla flavistriata. 



Andropadus flavostriatus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 53 ; id. ed. Lai/ard's 

 B. S. Afr. p. 205 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1«70, p. 427. 



Adidt female (type of species). General colour above olive-brown, 

 with somewhat of a yellowish tinge ; head dusky grey, the lores and 

 feathers round the eye greyish white ; ear-coverts grey, with narrow 

 white shaft-streaks ; checks greyish white ; throat pure white ; rest 

 of under surface whitish, the feathers edged with greenish yellow, 

 causing the breast to appear streaked with that colour ; sides of the 

 body duU greenish olive, deepening on the lower flanks and under tail- 

 coverts; thighs greenish olive; underwing-coverts dull yellow, washed 

 with brown near the edge of the wing ; scapulars and least wing- 

 coverts coloured like the back ; rest of the wing brown, all the feathers 

 externally washed with olive, inclining to golden brown on the outer 

 w'ebs of the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts and tail brown, strongly 

 washed with olive-green : " bill, tarsi, and feet ash-colour ; iris ashy 

 hazel " {F. A. Barratt). Total length 7'-l inches, culmcu 0"75, wing 

 3"45, tail 3' 5, tarsus 1. 



Adult male. Not to be distinguished from the female ; iris tawny, 

 bill dusky, tarsi and feet ashy {T. Ayres). Total length 7'9 inches, 

 culmen 0-85, wing 3-85, tail 3-6, tarsus 0-95. 



Barratt's Bulbul is only known from South-eastern Africa, where 

 it ranges from the Zambesi to the Transvaal. 



«. Ad. sk. Shire River, Zambesi. Dr. Kirk [C.]. 



b. $ ad. sk. Macamac, July 1, 1874. F. A. Barratt, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



c. $ ad. sk. Macamac. F. A. IJarratt, Esq. [C.]. 



d. <S ad. sk. Macamac, Oct. 9, 1874 (T. J. II. Gurney, Esq. [P.J. 



Ayres). 



8. Xenocichla serina. 



Criniger seriuus, J. ^- E. Vcrr. J. f. O. iii. 1855, p. 105 ; Finsch, J. f. 



O. 1867, p. 33; Sharjje, Ihis,'l86Q, p. 382; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 275, no. 4040 ; Shelley ^ Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. "291 ; Sharpe Sf 



Bouvier, Bidl. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 478. 

 Criniger xanthc^aster, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1855, p. 327 ; Bocage, 



Joni. Lisb. iii. p. 272 (1871) ; Gadoiv, J. f. O. 1876, p. 419. 

 Trichophorus xanthogaster, Hartl. Orn. W'.-Afr. p. 83 ; id. J. f. O. 



1861, p. 164. 

 Ilemixus serinus, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 45 ; Heine, J. f. O. 



1860, p. 139. 

 Trichites serinus, Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 140. 



Adult. General colour yellowish ohve, the hind neck and mantle 



