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also black ; breast brown, all the feathers edged with white, more 

 broadly on the lower breast, where the plumes may be said to be 

 whitish with light-brown centres ; abdomen white ; flanks and 

 thighs light brown ; iinder tail-coverts bright crimson ; under 

 wing-coYcrts whitish, mottled with brown bases to the feathers, the 

 edge of the wing hoary ; " bill black ; legs and feet dark or sepia- 

 brown ; iris deep brown " (Legge). Total length 7 inches, ciilmeu 

 0-75, wing 3-4, tail 3-4, tarsus 0-8. 



The Madras lled-vented Bulbul inhabits Ceylon, Southern and 

 Central India, not ranging into the Himalayas, but extending 

 through Jodpoor, Cutch, and Kattiawar into Sindh. 



India Museum. (No. 3oG, 

 spec, cl, of II. & M. Cat. /. c.) 

 J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. J. Scully [P.]." 



India Museum. 



Piu'chased. 

 ludia Museum, 

 ludia Museum, 

 ludia Museum. 

 India Museum. 

 Dr. B. Hinde [P.]. 

 W.T.Blanford,Esq. [P.]. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Capt. Stackhouse Piuwill 



[P.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

 India Museum. 

 F. \V.Bom-dillon,Esq.[C.]. 



F. Godman and 0. Salvin, 

 Esqrs. [P.]. 



2. Pycnonotus burmanicus. 



Pycnonotus bfemorrhous, U/i/fh Si- Wald. B.Bunn. p. 1.35 {nee Gin.). 

 Molpastes pygma3us, Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 126. 

 Molpastes intermedins, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 35, et 1879, p. 98. 

 Molpastes pygajus, Hume ^- Dacisun, Str. F. 1878, p. 321. 

 Pycnonotus nigripileus, Anders. Exp. Yun-nan, p. (J59 (wee Blytli). 



Adult male. Above light brown, with ashy margins to the feathers 

 of the back ; the lower back and rump uniform ashy ; the u^ipcr tail- 

 coverts lighter ash-colour, but not white ; wing-coverts coloured like 

 the back, the ashy margins to the feathers rather broader ; quills 

 brown, with narrow ashy margins, the shafts reddish brown : tail 

 brown, shading off" darker towards the end, which is distinctly tipped 

 with white on all but the two centre feathers ; crown of head 

 slightly crested, black, forming a cap, the hinder neck coloured like 

 the back, but more distinctly ashy; feathers round the eye blackish ; 

 fore parts of cheeks tilso blackish brown ; ear-coverts ashy brown ; 

 throat blackish brown : fore neck and breast light brown, all the 

 feathers margined with whitish ash-colour ; the centre of the body 



