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21 . PYCNoxorcs. 135 



Adult female. Similar in colour to tlie raale. Total length 

 6-6 inches, ciilmen 0-7, wing 3-6, tail 3"2, tarsus 0-8. 



Levailhint's Yellow-vented Bulbul ranges throughout South Africa, 

 from the eastern parts of the Cape Colony, through Xatal and the 

 Transvaal to Damara Land. 



a. S ad. sk. Hope Town, May 1871 {T. C. R. B. Shavpe, Esq. 



Atmorc). 



b. Imm. sk. Natal. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. d. c? ad. sk. Transvaal (7". Ai/res). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 e. 5 ad. sk. Crocodile River, Transvaal, C. G. & W. Oates, 



July (F. Oatvs). Esqrs. [P.J. 



/. cf ad. sk. Otjimbinque, Damara Land, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



June 22, 1806 (C. J. An- 

 cle rsson). 



ff. $ ad. sk. Otjimbinque, July 29, 18G6 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(C. J. A/ulerssoii). 



h. Ad. sk. Otjimbinque, Sept. 14, 18G4 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(C. J. Andersson). 



11. Pycnonotus xanthopygus. 



? Le Merle a cul jauue, Dauboit. PL Enl. iv. pi. 317. 



? Turdus tristis, P. L. S. Mull. Si/st. Nat., Anhang, p. 14o. 



Ixus xantbopygos, Hempr. 4" Ehr. Symh. P/ti/s. fol. bb ; Siipp. 



Neue Tl'irh., Vog. p. 83. 

 Pycnonotus levaillantii, Riipp. Syst. Uehers. p. 60 (nee Teinm.). 

 Ixus vaillantii, Pre/im, Vvi/elf. p. 221 (nee Temm.). 

 Ixus vallombrospe, Up. C. P. xlii. p. 766. 

 Ixus xanthopygius, Tristr. Ihis, 1859, p. 30; id. Ibis, 1805, p. 81, 



1866, p. 292. 

 Ixus aurigaster, Sclatet; P. Z. S. 1862, p. 12 ; Antin. Cat. descrr. Uec. 



p. 43. 

 Pycnouotus vallombrosae, Hetii/l. J. f. O. 1867, p. 203. 

 Pycnonotus nigricans, Heugl. Orn. X.O.-Afr.^. 397; Hartl. Grieck. 



Jahreszeit. iii. p. 229 (teste Dresser). 

 Pycnonotus tristis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 268, no. 3923. 

 Pycnonotus xauthopygos, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 269, no. 3928; 



Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 68 ; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxxix. 



Adult male. General colour light ashy brown, greyer about the 

 hind neck ; quills ashy brown, rather darker than the back and 

 narrowly edged with paler brown ; upper tail-coverts darker brown 

 than the back, margined with dull olive-yellow ; tail dark sepia- 

 brown, indistinctly tipped with ashy grey, more broadly on tbe 

 outer featbers ; crown of head as far as the nape, entire sides of 

 head, and throat jet-black, the fore neck broMn, with greyish edgings 

 to the featbers of the lower part ; behind the ear-coverts a slight 

 shade of silvery white ; sides of neck and entire under surface of 

 body light ashy grey, a little whiter on the centre of the abdomen ; 

 under tail-coverts bright yellow ; under wing-coverts and vent- 

 feathers whitish washed with yellow; thighs ashy brown, also 

 •washed with yellow : under wing-coverts ashy brown, the edge of 

 the wing washed with yellow ; bill and legs black ; iris dark 

 brown ; evelid grey. Total length S'3 inches, culmcu 0-75, wing 

 3-8, tail 3-8.3, tarsus 0-85. 



