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21. PYCNONOTUS*. 



Type. 



Fvcuonotus, Boie, Isix, 1826, p. 97;5 (ex Kiilil, MSS.). P. capensis. 



Bracliypus, Swains. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 103 (1827, ?iec 



Swains. 1837) T- lifBinorrlious. 



Ixos, Temm. Man. cTOrn. iv. p. 606 (1840) P. barbatus. 



Loidorusa, Reichenh. Si/st. Ar. Taf. liv. fig. 11 (18-50) P. analis. 

 Lfedonisa, Cahanis, Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 109 (1850, 



ex lieichenb.) P- analis. 



Molpastes, Hume, Sir. Feathers, 1873, p. 378, note . . P. hcemorrlious. 



Rrinc/e. The whole of Africa and the southern countries of the 

 Mediterranean sea, eastwards through Persia to India and Ceylon, 

 the Burmese countries, down the Malayan peninsula to the islands 

 of Java, Sumatra, Born.eo, and the Philippines ; China, with the 

 islands of Formosa and Hainan. 



Leg of P//C7W!iotus hesmorrhous. 



Obs. Ixus is generally the genus employed for this group of 

 Bulbuls ; but the first mention of the genus that I can discover is in 

 the 24th livraison of Temminck's 'Planches Coloriees' (vol. iii.), 

 published in 1825, where he calls the Javan species Ixos virescens 

 (pi. 382. fig. 1). He gives no characters for the genus ; but in 1828 

 (livr. 76) he describes and figures two species, Ixos cJudocejijhalus 



* Pycnonotus familiaris. 

 Ixos familiaris, Kitfl. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. des Savans Etrang. i. p. 235, 



pi. siii. (1831). 

 lora ? familiaris, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 199 ; Bp. Con.sp. i. p. 397. 

 Apalopteron familiare, Bp. C. E. xxxix. p. 59 (1854). 

 Pycnonotus familiaris, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 271, no. 3977. 



Bill and feet blackish. Iris bright light brown. All the feathers of the body 

 unusually long, with very fluffy webs. Forehead and a large triangular mark 

 round the eye, inclining downwards, black ; near the base of the bill, on each 

 side of the forehead, a yellow spot ; eyelids yellowish white. Throat, fore neck, 

 cheeks, and the whole of the remainder of the under parts, beautiful yellow, the 

 sides of the abdomen strongly tinged with greenish grey. As all the feathers are 

 rather fluffy on the upper parts of the whole body, the ashy-grey ground-colour 

 of the feather makes itself visible, and causes the terminal half of the feather, 

 which is itself dull green, to have a still stronger tinge of grey. Near the base 

 of the tail the green colour becomes somewhat brighter, this colour passing or 

 changing into dark yellow on the crown and occiput ; quills and tail-feathers 

 dark brown, with yellowish-green margins to the outer webs. Wing 26 inches. 



The above is a transcript of Kittlitz's description of this species, which I have 

 never seen, and which may be wrongly placed here. All those who have 

 examined specimens agree that its relations are near Pycnonotus, though Bona- 

 parte insists on its being generically distinct. 



Kittlitz's Bulbul is only known from the island of Bonin, in the Japanese seas. 



