102 timt:liid.e. 



latter measuring 3"6o inches. A second specimen has the wing much 

 more rut'ons, the primary-corerts and secondaries, as well as the 

 outer webs of the secondaries, being rufous. This latter colour may 

 be due to sexual differences, as the bird is apparently a female, 

 measuring so much less than the other birds. Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen 0-9, tail 3-45, tarsus 0-95. 



The Chestnut-tailed Bulbul is found in the forests of West Africa, 

 from Senegambia to Gaboon. 



a. S ad. sk. Gaboon {DuChaUlu). E. B. Hharpe, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. Gaboon {DuChaUlu). E. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. Fantee {Governor Vssher). 11. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. Fantee {Gun-rnor Ussher). E. B. Sharpe, Etq. 



10. Xenocichla scandens. 



Phyllastrephus scandens, Sicaiii.s. B. W. Afr. i. p. 270, pi. 30 ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 238; Bp. Con^). i. p. 260; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 89. 

 Trichophorus pallescens, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 8a. 

 Pyrrhm-us scandens, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 18o9, p. 46 ; Finsch, J. 



y. O. 1867, p. 8. 

 Pvrrhurus pallescens, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 46 ; Heine, J. 



y. O. 1860, p. 46 ; Finsch, J.f. O. 1867, p. 8. 

 Xenocichla pallescens, Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 165. 

 Criniger pallescens, Finsch, J. f. O. 1867, p. 20 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 275, no. 4037. 

 Criniger scandens, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 275, no. 4038 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1870, p. 52; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 22. 



Adult. General colour above pale olive with an ashy cast ; the 

 crown of the head obscure ashy grey ; nimp washed with fawn- 

 colour ; upper tail-coverts fawn-colour or pale cinnamon, the tail 

 being also of the latter colour, but a little darker ; least and median 

 wing-coverts like the back, the greater series and the quills brown, 

 with pale fawn-brown edges, the inner secondaries entirely fawn- 

 brown ; lores greyish white ; sides of face grey, the cheeks rather 

 paler ; throat dull white, fading off on to the breast, which, with 

 the rest of the under surface of the body, is light yellowish brown, 

 washed with yellow on the middle of the abdomen, and deepening 

 into fawn-colour on the under tail-coverts, the sides of the breast 

 washed with olive ; under wing-coverts and axillaries fawn-buff ; 

 quills dark brown below, fawn-buff along the inner web ; bill horn- 

 brown, yellowish brown along the edge of the upper mandible, the 

 lower mandible being yellowish ; feet dark horn-brown, the claws 

 paler and more yellowish brown. Total length 9-6 inches, culmen 

 0-8, wing 4-45, tail 4-2, tarsus 1-1. 



Some differences exist in the size of specimens, one from Fantee, 

 presented by Mr. Andrew Swanzy, measures 4 inches in the wing 

 and 1 inch in the tarsus. 



The Pale Bulbnl is only known from West Africa : where it has 

 been met with in the forests of Senegambia down to those of Denkcra, 

 on the Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk, River Gambia. Purchased. 



