130 TIMKLIIDJE. 



6. Pycnonotus iutermedius. 



Pycnonotus intermedius, Jird. B. Ind. ii. p. 95 (c.r A. Hay, MS^; 



Bli/tJi, Ibis, 1867, p. S) ; Beai\tn, t. c. p. 441. 

 Pycnonotus pygmfeus, Cock ^- Marsh. Str. F. 1873, p. 355. 

 Molpa.stes intermedius, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 378. 



Adult. General colour above dark brown, mottled -vrith ashy 

 margins to the feathers, the rump a little more uniform ; upper 

 tail-coverts dull white, faintly washed ^vith brown ; upper wing- 

 coverts brown, edged rather broadly with white ; quills brown, 

 external!}- margined with whity brown ; head crested, glossy black, 

 the nape and hind neck, as well as the sides of the latter, shaded 

 with black, so that no cap is perceptible ; lores, feathers round the 

 eye, cheeks, and throat black, shading off on the fore neck into the 

 brown of the chest ; remainder of the under surface of body ashy 

 whitish, the breast mottled with brown, the feathers being of the 

 latter colour with ashy-whitish margins ; flanks light ashy brown, 

 streaked with darker brown ; under tail-coverts crimson ; thighs 

 brown, margined with ashy whitish ; under wing-coverts dull 

 whitish, with brown bases to the outer ones, causing a slightly 

 mottled appearance ; axillaries light ashy brown ; quills brown 

 below, light ashy brown along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3'9, tail 3-S5, tarsus 0-95. 



Pinwill's Eed-vented Bulbul replaces the common Himalayan 

 form in the Xorth-western Himalayas, Cashmere, and extends into 

 Afghanistan. 



a. Ad. sk. India. 



b. Ad. sk. l\\nvA\i\ya.s (Paris Exhi- India Museum. 



hition). 



c. 2 ad. sk. X.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Cashmere. Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. Afghanistan {Griffith). India Museum. 



/. Ad. St. Himalayas. J. E. Eeeves, Esq. [P.]. 



7. Pycnonotus capensis. 



Le Merle brnn du Cap de Bonne Esperauce, Briss. Orn. ii n •'>69 



pi. 27. fig. 3. ^- 



Turdus capensis, Lmyi. Si/st. JSat. i. p. 295. 

 Le Brunei du Cap de Bonne Esrerance, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois iii 



p. 390. 

 Le Brunet, Levaill. Ois. dAfr. iii. p. 105, pi. 36; Sundcv. Crit. om 



Levaill. p. 35. 

 Pycnonotus capensis, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 29 ; id. Gen. B. i. 



p. 237 ; Cab. Mm. Htin. Th. i. p. 107 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 138 : 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 268, no. 3924 ; Finsch l*j- HartL Viig. Ostafr. 



p. 299 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 74 ; Neivton, ed. Yarr. Brit. 'B. 



p. 247 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 207; Dresser, B. Eur. 



pt. xxxix. 

 Turdus aungaster, Yarrell, Brit. B. Siqipl. i. p. 15 ; Thomps. B. Irel. 



i. p. 153. 

 Pycnonotus cbrysorrhceus, Thomps. Ann. Not. Hist. xv. p. 308 {nee 



2'emm.). 



