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19. Pycnonotus flavescens. 



Pvcnonotus flavescens, Blytli, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 508 ; id. Cat. B. 

 \Uus. As. Soc. p. 244 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Miis. E.I. Co. i. 

 p. 244; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 270, no. .3940; Anders. Exp. W. Yun- 

 nan, p. 059. 



Ixus flavescens, Bp. Consp. i. p. 200 ; Blyth &, Wulden, B. Burin. 

 p. 134; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 100 n870) ; Hume t^- 

 Davison, Sir. F. 1878, p. 300 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 98. 



Adult. General colour above olive-brown, with somewhat of an 

 ashy-brown shade, the crown of the head rather darker than the 

 back and slightly crested ; wing-coverts and quills liglit brown, 

 with dull olive-yellow margins ; tail-feathers light brown, washed 

 with olive-yellow on the outer webs, the external feathers slightly 

 edged with whity brown at the tips of the inner web ; lores dusky, with 

 a longitudinal spot of dull white, slightly tinged with brown ; round 

 the eye a narrow ring of dull whitish feathers ; sides of face and 

 neck, throat, fore neck, and chest dull ashy brown, washed with olive- 

 yellow, the flanks also similarly coloured ; centre of the body whity 

 brown, washed with yellow, intensifying on the vent, the under 

 tail-coverts being bright yellow ; thighs brown, tinged with olive ; 

 under wing-coverts light fawn-brown, the edge of the wing olive- 

 yellow ; quills ashy brown below, olive along the outer web and 

 light fawn-colour along the inner one ; " bill black ; legs, feet, and 

 claws varying from very dark reddish or purplish brown to black ; 

 irides brown to red-brown " ( IF. Davison). Total length S'S inches, 

 culmen 0-05, wing 3-35, tail 3-9, tarsus 0"S5. 



Blyth's Bulbul ranges from the Khasia hills into Arakan, Burmah, 

 and Tenasserim. 



o, h. Ad. sk. Khasia hills? {Griffith) *. India Museum. 



c. <S ad. sk. Karen Nee, 4000 feet, March 13, Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw 

 1874 {E. G. W. B.). Ramsay. 



20. Pycnonotus luteolus. 

 Trichophorus virescens, Tichell, J. A. .V. Beny. ii. p. 573; Jerd. Madr, 



Journ. X. p. 248. 

 Hsematornis luteolus, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 354. 

 Pycnonotus flavirictus, Stricll. Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 413 ; BJytli, 



J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 307 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237 ; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 210. 

 Criniger tickelli, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xix. p. 571. 

 Pycnonotus luteolus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. 



As. Soc., App. p. xxii ; Horsf. iSj- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. 



p. 243; Gray, Hand-l. B. i.'p. 270, no. 3944. 

 Ixus flavirictus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 200. 

 Ixus luteolus, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 84 ; Hume, Nests S,- Ef/e/s Ind. B. 



p. 283; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 410, 1870, p. 2-?,o; Fa'irb. torn. cit. 



p. ^r.a ; Hunu\ t. c. p. 415 ; Fairb. Str. F. 1877, p. 405 ; Ball, t. c. 



p. 417 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 98. 



Adult. General colour above olive-brown, the olive colour pre- 



* In the Catalogue of the India Museum (p. 244) the locality of this specimen 

 is given as "Afghanistan"; but this is no doubt an error. 



