21. PYCNONOXUS. 129^ 



(wing 3-35-3-00 inches), Chanda (wing 3-2.5-3-45 inches), Leoni 

 (wing 3"()5 inches), Singbhoom (wing 3-().5 inches), Eehar (wing 3-7 

 inches). Some of these specimens have been sent to me by Dr. 

 Anderson ; and it is quite evident that no distinctions can be made 

 upon the score of size, as the length of wing varies so much, nor is 

 there any great difference in the colouring, excejiting in the greater 

 or less distinctness of the white edging to the wing-coverts. 



Himalayan birds (P. pi/f/ceus) are easily distinguished by their 

 chocolate-ljrown car-coverts and by their long crests ; the hinder 

 neck is black, like the head ; and this black colour occupies the sides 

 of the neck and the throat, extending well onto the fore neck. 

 Specimens are the same from Darjiling {Jerdon), Nepal (Hodi/son), 

 Kumaon (Stracheif), Calcutta (JIus. /h(/.), Cachar (Mus. Lid.), Upper 

 Assam (lieid); but I notice a slight tendency towards P. iiiter- 

 medius in the Kumaon birds. 



P. intfrmediu^s, from the Punjaub and X.W. Himalayas, seems to 

 be a good distinguishable race or species. It resembles the Nepal 

 bird in having brown ear-coverts ; but the shade of black is not so 

 strongly pronounced on the hind neck and chest ; the abdomen is 

 uniform greyish ash-colour, the brown shading of the chest not 

 extending beyond that part, the breast being mottled with a few 

 brown centres to the feathers ; but this brown shade or mottling 

 does not extend nearly so far as in the Nepal Bulbul. I have at 

 present only seen a few specimens. 



The Burmese and Tenasserim species seems to be undescribed; 

 it is a distinctly hlach-capped species, but having brown ear-coverts 

 as in P. pygceus. The black shade is confined to the throat, and 

 the neck is brown all round, there being consequently no black 

 shade near the ear-coverts. 



The Common Ked-vented Bulbul is found throughout Lower 

 Bengal as far south as Midnapore, and the jungles stretching thence 

 to Central India north of the Xerbudda. It ascends the Himalayas 

 to a height of 7uOiJ feet, and inhabits these mountains from Kumaon 

 eastwards to Assam. 



[P.]. 



3. Ad. sk. Darjiling i^Ecclcs). F. Godman and O. Siilvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 t,u,v. Ad.sk. Nazeerah, Upper Assam R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



{Dr. lieid). 

 w. Ad. sk. Assam (.WCMland). India Museum. 



X. Ad. sk. Bootan {Pembcrto7i). Lidia Museum. 



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