20. ixoxoTcs. 119 



1. Ixonotus guttatus. 



Ixonotus guttatus. J. i^- E. Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 306 : 

 Hnrtl. J.f. O. 18.-,4, p. 26; id. Oni. West-Afr. p. 88; Cass. Proc. 

 Phihid. Acad. 18>9, p. 46; Heine, J. f. O.1860, p. 140; Harfl. 

 J.f. O. 1861, p. 167; S/iarpe, Oaf. Afr.' B. p. 2-i ; id. P. Z. S ls71, 

 p. 600; id. Ibis, 187-2, p. 69; Uss/wr, Ibis, 1874, p. .37; Bourier, 

 Cat. Ois. Marcke etc. p. 17; Reichen. J. f. O. 187^3, pp. 32, 49; 

 Oustalet, Ball. Soc. Philoin. (7) i. p. 106; id. Xouv. Aj-ch. Mm. 2ud 

 series, vol. ii. p. 101, pi. o. lig. 2. 



Criniger guttatus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 274, no. 4034. 



Adult. General colour above olive-brovrn, the head much more 

 dingy and inclining to grey on the forehead, the feathers of which 

 have dusky edges, producing a slightly scaled appearance ; scapulars 

 dark brown, washed with dull olive, and tipped with triangular 

 spots of yellowish white ; wiug-coverts dark brown, washed with 

 dark olive on the outer webs, and tipped with large triangular spots 

 of white ; bastard-wing uniform dark brown ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dark brown, externally edged with olive, the inner secondaries 

 with a white spot at the tip ; lower back, rump, and up])cr tail- 

 coverts blackish brown, mottled with yellowish-white tips to the 

 feathers ; four centre tail-feathers brown, the next one brown on 

 the inner web, white on the outer, the three outer feathers pure 

 white ; lores, eyelid, and feathers below the eye dull white ; ear- 

 coverts brown, slightly tinged with rufous like the sides of the'neck, 

 and streaked with white shaft-lines ; cheeks and under surface of 

 body white, slightly washed with pale yellow in the centre of the 

 body, the sides of the breast dull greenish ; under wing-coverts aud 

 axillaries white, also slightly washed with yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts dark brown, the primaries white, the secondaries pale yellow 

 along the inner web ; " bill and feet bluish grey ; iris dirty white " 

 (Reichenow) ; " iris yellow " ( Ussher). Total length 7 inches, culmen 

 0-G5, wing 3-4, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-75. 



Young birds have the iris nut-brown (SeicJienoiv). 



Ohs. The three specimens from Fantee all want the grey forehead, 

 the cro-wii of the head being dark olive like the back. 



The White-spotted Bulbul is an inhabitant of the West-African 

 forests, from Denkera, in the interior of the Gold Coast, to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. st. Gaboon. ^M. Verreaux. 



b. Ad. sk. Gaboon ( Walker). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. Cameroons Mountains, Jan. 28, R. B. Sharpe, Esq, 



1871 {A. Cros.^le,/). 



d. Ad. sk. Cameroons .Mountains, Feb. 11, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1^71 (A. C). 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Kazarako, Fantee, April 1871, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(At/biiin). 

 (J. Jun. sk. Kazarako {Aubixn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



