136 TIMELIID^. 



Adult fcmciJe. Similar to the male. Total length 8-4 inchoSj 

 culraen 0-7"), wing 3-G5, tail 3'8, tarsus 0-9. 



The Palestine Yellow-vented Bnlbul is found all over North- 

 eastern Africa, Arabia Petrtea, S/ria, and Palestine, and in the 

 islands of Cyprus, llhodes, and the Oyclades. 



a. S ad. sk. Sidon. Canon Tristram [C.l. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Jericho. Canon Tristram [C.J. 



c. § ad. sk. SidoD, Nov. .30, 1862 F. Godmau and O. 



{Canon Tristram). Salvin, Esq^rs. [P.]. 



12. Pycnonotus leucotis. 



Ixos leucotis, Gould, P. Z. S. 18.36, p. 6 ; Bjy. Consp. i. p. 26.5 ; 



De Filippi, Viagg. Pers. p. 347. 

 Pycnonotus leucotis, Blijth, J. A. S. Bern), xiv. p. 567 ; Grai/, Gen. B. 

 '\. p. 1^37 ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. S'oc. p. 209; Horsf.'^- Moore, 



Cat. B. Mus. E.l. Co. i. p. 242 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 271, 



no. 3965 ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 218. 

 Otocompsa leucotis, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 91 ; Iltime, Str. F. 1873, 



p. 181 ; id. Nests and Euqs Ind. B. p. 286 ; Adam, t. c. p. 378 ; 



Ball, S/r. F. 1875, p. 206 ; Butler, t. c. p. 473 ; Hume, Str. F. 



1879, p. 98. 



Adult. General colour above pale ashy brown, somewhat lighter 

 towards the rump ; outside upper tail-coverts whity brown, ashy 

 brown in the centre ; wings like the back, the greater coverts and 

 quiUs externally edged with paler ashy bro-\vn ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, paler brown towards their bases, and edged narrowly with 

 lighter brown, all conspicuously tipped with white spots, which 

 become larger towards the outer feathers ; crown of head, lores, 

 and feathers round the eye and at the base of the bill, fore part of 

 cheeks, and throat black ; ear-coverts and hinder part of cheeks 

 white, separated from the brown of the neck by a narrow black 

 line which connects the black throat with the black head ; breast 

 and sides of body pale ashy brown, the centre of the body ashy 

 whitish ; thighs ashy brown ; under tail-coverts bright golden 

 j-ellow ; under wing-coverts ashy brown, edged with white ; quills 

 brown below, ashy brown along the edge of the inner web ; " iris 

 dark brown " (Adams). Total length 6'9 inches, culmen 0"55, 

 wing 3"15, taU 3-15, tarsus 0-8. 



There is no difference in the colour of the sexes. 



Youmj. Rather paler and more rufescent than the adult, espe- 

 cially on the upper tail-coverts and outer aspect of wings ; the head 

 brown instead of black, which colour is confined to the throat, fore 

 part of cheeks, and lores ; under tail-coverts yellowish buff. 



A pair of birds collected by Col. St. John near Shiraz measure as 

 follows :— 



