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a. Ad. sk. Ningpo, China. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [0.1 



h. Ad. sk. Amoy. U. Swiulioe, Esq. [C.|. 



c. Ad. sk. Karen Xee, March 18, Lieut. E. G. \Vai-dlaw 



1874 {R. G. W R.). Ramsay. 



(J. S ad. sk. Karen Nee, ^March i'3, Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw 



1874 {R. G. W. R.). Ramsay. 



5. Pycnonotus pygaeus. 



Pycnonotus cafer, M'Clell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. IGl (nee Linn.). 



Ixus cafer vel pygfeus, Iloch/s. lean. ined. in Brit. Miis., Passeres, 



pi. 202 (no. 207) ; id- in Grai/'s Zool. Misc. p. 84. 

 Htematornis cafer, Gray, Cat. Mamm. 4'r. JS'cpal jyres. Hodr/s. p. 89 



(nee L.). 

 Pycnonotus bengalensis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 566 ; id. Cat. B. 



'Mus. As. Soc. p. 209. 

 Ixos pygseus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 265. 

 Pycnonotus pygseus, Horsf. S)- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 239 ; 



Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 93. 

 Pycnonotus pygmseus, Gray, Hand-I. B. i. p. 270, no. 3957. 

 Molpastes pvgffius, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 378 ; id. Kests '$■ Eqqs 



Ind. B. p.' 290; id. Str. F. 1875, p. 126; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 98 ; 



Scully, t. c. p. 297. 



Nestling. Much more dingy in colour thau the adult, and more 

 imiform, the general coloration of the upper surface being ashy 

 brown, with the head a little darker, the qiiills being margined 

 with pale rufous-brown ; underueath the colour is dull whitish, 

 dusky browu on the throat and chest ; the under tail-coverts are 

 brown ; the tail also is tipped with whity brown instead of white. 



Adult. Above deep chocolate-brown, the feathers with margins of 

 paler brown ; the lower back and rump more ashy, mottled with sub- 

 terminal marks of brown to each feather ; upper tail-coverts pure 

 white ; tail dark sepia-brown, tipped with white : wings brown, all 

 the coverts and quills edged with paler brown, inclining to whity 

 brown ou the greater coverts and primaries ; head, which is very 

 much crested, black, the nape also blackish ; .sides of face also 

 black, the ear-coverts glossy chocolate-brown ; throat and fore neck 

 black, shading off into brown on the breast, the lower feathers of 

 which are edged with whity brown ; rest of under surface of body 

 duU ashy white, somewhat mottled with dark-brown centres to the 

 feathers, especially on the thighs ; under tail-coverts crimson ; 

 under wing-coverts ashy white, with dark-brown centres to the 

 feathers, the edge of the wing whitish with a slight pink shade ; 

 " bill black ; feet dusky ; iris dark brown '' (Scully). Total length 

 7-8 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 0-85, tail 3'S5, tarsus 0-95. 



Olis. "With regard to the different races or species of Eed-vented 

 Indian Eulbuls, I have the following remarks to make on the 

 British-Museum series. 



Specimens with a black cap and brownish-black ear-coverts 

 (P. hcemorrhous) , not to be distinguished from the crown of the head 

 in colour, have been examined from Malabar (wing 3-7 inches), 

 Coorg (wing 3'3-3--15 inches), Mysore (wing 3-55 inches), Xamptee 



