21. rYCNoxoxrs. 137 



The "White-cared Bulbul inhabits open bush-country from Persia, 

 throughout BaUiehistan and Sciude into X.W. India, and as far 

 east as Saugor in Central India. 



a. Ad. sk. India. Gapt. Boys [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Calpee, X.W. India. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



will [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Jodhpoor, Nov. 4, 1868 Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 



(G. King). 



e,f. Ad. sk. Hyderabad, Scinde India Museum. 



\pr. H. Gould), 



q, h, i. Ad. sk. Shikarpore, Afghanistan India Museum. 



(W. Griffith), 



k. 2 ad. sk. Bahn Kelat, Persian Ba- W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



luchistan, Feb. 2, 1872. [C.]. 



/, m. (S $ ad. sk. Near Shiraz, 4500 feet, Col. St. John [C.]. 



July 1870. 



n. cJ ad. sk. 0<ak-forest near Shiraz, Col. St. John [C.]. 



7000 feet, 



o. Ad. sk. Persia. K. Loftus, Esq. [C.]. 



p. Ad. St. India. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



13. Pycnonotus aurigaster. 



The Yellow-vented Flycatcher, Brown, III. Zool. p. 76, pi. 31. fig. 1. 

 Ued-vented Flycatclier, var. A, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 335. 

 Muscicapa ha»niorrhousa, var. |3, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 041; Lath. 



Ind. Oni. i. p. 475. 

 Le Cudor, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. p. 46, pi. 107. fig. 2 ; Sitndev. Crit. 



otn Levaill. p. 36. 

 Turdus aurigaster, Tieill. Xouv. Diet. cTHist. Kat.:s.^. p. 258; Bonn. 



et Tieill. Enc. Me'th. ii. p. 6-")7. 

 Turdus hfemorrhous, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 147 (nee Gm.), 

 Brachypus chrysorrhceus, Steph. Gen. Zool. siv. p. 189 (e.v Levaill.), 

 Ixus haemorrhous, Vigors, Mem. Raffi., App. p. 661 (nee Gm.). 

 Hffimatoniis chrysorrhceus, S'^cains. Classif. B. ii. p. 338. 

 Pycnonotus crocorrhous, Striekl. Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 412 ; Blyth, 



J. A. S. Bene/, xiv. p. 567 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237; Horsf. if Moore, 



Cat. B. Mils. E.I.Co. i.p. 245 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 270, no. 3958; 



Nichols. Ibis, 1879, p. 168, 1881, p". 148. 

 Pycnonotus auriiraster. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237 ; Von MM. J. f. O, 



'1855, p. 394 ; ^Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 139. 

 Ixus chrysorrhceus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 26G. 

 Ixus aurigaster, Bp. Consp. i. p. 267. 

 Brachypus aurigaster, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 108. 

 I'vcnonotus aurigidai'is (lapsii), Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 73. 

 Molpastes crocon-hous, Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 378. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, mottled with hoary- 

 grey edgings to the feathers ; the lower back uniform brown, the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts white, the longer coverts sliglitly 

 shaded with ashy brown ; wing-coverts dark brown, edged with 

 hoary grey like the mantle ; greater coverts and quills dark brown 

 with lighter brown edges ; tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with 

 dull white, the feathers lighter brown towards the base ; crown of 

 head black, forming a cap ; hinder neck hoary grey, streaked with 

 the dark-brown centres to the feathers ; lores, feathers below the 



