148 TIMELIIDJE. 



Algeria and Morocco. In West Africa it is again very plentiful from 

 the Gambia to the Niger. 



<t, b- <3 2 ^d. sk. Kef Laks, Prov. Constantine, F. Godman and O. Sal- 

 Algeria, April 27, 1857 (O. vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Sah'iii). 



c. Ad. sk. Taugiors. M. Favier [C.]. 



d-e. Ad. sk. Eiver Gambia. R. B. Sharpe, Esc[. 



f. Ad. St. Kiver Gambia. 



ff. Ad. sk. Sierra Leone, Capt. Sabine [P.]. 



"/(, /. Ad. sk. Gold Coast. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Asbautee. J. Goidd, Esq. 



/, ni. Ad. sk. Fantee. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



n. Ad. sk. Fantee (Governor Usshe?-). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



0. Ad. sk. Cape Coast (i. Fraser). Eyton Coll. (Type of 



Ixus inornatus, Fraser.) 



]}, q. Ad. sk. Accra ( Cajyt. Haynes). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



r. Ad. sk. V\\\ev\o\ta{GovernorUssher~). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



s-u. Ad., i'. Pull. Abeokuta (if. Robin). F.Nicholson, Esq. [P.]- 

 sk. 



w. Ad. sk. River Niger. Dr. BaiMe [C.]. 



.r. Ad. St. Africa. J. Gould, Esq. 



Subsp. a. Pycnonotus gabonensis. 



Pycnonotus gabonensis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 131, pi. vii. fig. 1 ; 

 id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 23 ; Reichen. J.f. 0. 1875, p. 33 ; Dresser, B. 

 Eur. text to pi. xxxix. 



Adult. Similar to P. larhatus, but darker brown above ; on the 

 lower surface the flanks are browner, and the dark-brown colour of 

 the throat extends over the whole fore neck and chest. Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-75, tail 3-45, tarsus 0-85, 



The Gaboon White-vented Bulbul replaces the former species in 

 the Cameroons and Gaboon, and is, in fact, only a darker race of 

 P. harhatus. 



a. Ad. sk. Gaboon {R. B. N. Walker). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. (Type 



of .species.) 



b. Ad. sk. River Danger, Gaboon. Henry Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Imm. sk. Cameroons. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



26. Pycnonotus ar since. 



Ixus arsinoe, Hempr. Sf Ehr. Symb. Phys. sig. a a ; Riipp. Neue 



Wirb., V6(j. p. 83; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 60; Bp. Consp. i. p. 266; 



Antin. Cat. descrr. TJcc. p. 43. 

 Tiu-dus arsinoe, Licht. Verz. Boubl. p. 39. 

 Pycnonotus arsinoe, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237 ; Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. 



i. p. 107 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. 3Ius. E. I. Co. i. p. 107 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B.i.-p.2eS, no. 3925; HeKc/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 396; 



Blanf. Geol. 8f Zool. Abyss, p. 369; Fimeh, Tr. Z. S. Vii. p. 245; 



id. df Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 296 ; SharjK, Cat. Afr. B. p. 23 ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 131 ;■ Shelki/, B. Egypt, p. 67. 

 Pycnonotus barbatus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 217 {nee Desf.). 

 Ixos obscurus, A. C. Smith, Attr. of the Nile, ii. p. 222. 



Adult male. General colour above earthy brown, the wing-coverts 



