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and better-cultivated portions of the province north of Amherst, 

 according to Hume. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Tenas.serim (Heifer). ludia ^Museum. 



c. c? j"v. sk. Kankaryil, British Bur- A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



mah,"june 11, 1878 (J. 



Darling). 

 (I. c? ad. sk. Kankaiyit, Aug. 28, 1878 A. O. Hume, Esq. 



(</. Darling), 

 e. Ad. sk. Karen hills, Oct. 1874 {R. Lieut. 11. G. Wardlaw 



G. W. JR.). Itamsay. 



4. Pycnonotus atricapillus. 



Le Gobe-mouches a tete noire de la Chine, Sotin. Toi/. Iiul. Orient. 



ii. p. 197. 

 Muscicapa atricapilla, JleiU. N. Dirt. cVHist. Kat. xxi. p. 489 (e.i- 



Sonn.). 

 Htematornis chrysorrhoides, Lnfr. Bev. Zool. 1845, p. 367. 

 HfBniatornis atricapilhis, A. Hag, Madr. Journ. xiii. 1844, p. 160. 

 I.xus ha^morrhoa, (Jass. in Perry'' s Exped. Japan, p. 241, pi. vi. (nee 



Gm.). 

 Pycnonotus hiemorrhous, Swinh. Ibis, 1860, pp. 57, 358 (nee Gm.). 

 Pycnouotus chrysorrhoides, Sclafer, Ibis, 1860, p. 358, note ; Gray, 



'Hand-l. B. i. p. 270, no. 3956. 

 Ixus hfomorrhous, 8winh. Ibis, 1862, p. 307. 

 Ixus chrys,,nlioides, .Siriii/i. I'. Z. S. 1863, p. 278, et 1871, p. 370; 



Darid\Y Otisfalrt, Ois. Chine, p. 142, pi. xlvi. 

 Molpastes chrysorrhoides, Hume, Sir. F. 1874, p. 477; Hume 8,- 



Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 322 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 99. 

 Pycnouotus atricapillus, Wald. in Blgtlis B. Burm. p. 136. 



Adult. General colour above light ashy brown, with lighter ashy 

 edges to the feathers, producing a slightly mottled appearance, the 

 lower back unifoiin ; rump and upper tail-coverts dull white, with 

 pale brown tips to the longer ones, the longest pale brown ; tail- 

 feathers blackish brown, tipped with white spots, increasing in size 

 towards the outer feathers, the bases of which are pale brown ; least 

 wing-coverts like the back, the rest of the coverts and quills brown, 

 edged with pale ashy brown on the outer web ; crown of head crested 

 and nape black, as also the lores, feathers round the eye, fore part of 

 cheeks, and anterior portion of car-coverts, chin, and upper throat j 

 remainder of ear-coverts hoary white, extending onto the sides 

 of the neck ; remainder of under surface of body light ashy brown, 

 washed with slightly darker brown on the breast and sides of the 

 body ; under tail-coverts scarlet ; under wing-covcrts and axillaries 

 pale fulvcscent brown ; quills brown below, fulvescent along the 

 edge of the inner web ; '• legs, feet, and claws black ; iris brown to 

 dark brown '' ( IF. Davison). Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 0-7, 

 wing 3-75, tail 3-7, tarsus 0-9. 



The Chinese Eed-vented Bulbul occurs throughout Southern 

 China, reaching to Fokien and even to Ningpo. It is also met with 

 on the Burmese hills and the more hilly and richly -wooded parts of 

 Tenasserim north of 13° iS^. lat. 



