21. PYCNONOTUS. 149 



like the back; quills dark brown, edged externally with lighter 

 brown ; tail dark brown, the outer feathers with paler tips ; head 

 black, forming a distinct cap ; lores, ear-covcrts, and sides of face 

 also blackish, as well as the throat, the latter mingling with brown 

 on the fore neck, which, with the chest, is brown, as well as the 

 sides of the neck ; remainder of under surface white, the flanks and 

 thighs somewhat washed with brown ; imder tail-coverts pure white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries pale brown, the edge of the wing 

 and carpal band white ; quills brown below, pale reddish brown 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " bill black ; feet blackish ; iris 

 dusk}' " {Hemjliii) ; " beak brownish black : legs and irides dark 

 brown " {Shelley). Total length 7 inches, culmen 65, wing 3'3, 

 tail 3-05, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-.5o, tail 3-3, tarsus 0-8. 



Hemprich's Bulbul is an inhabitant of North-eastern Africa and 

 Southern Arabia, ranging from Central Egypt through Nubia and 

 the lowlands of Abyssinia, Kordofan, to the Lower White and Blue 

 Niles, occurring also on the Adel and SomaK coasts. 



a. Ad. sk. Wadi Haifa, 2nd Cataract Dr. A. Leith Adams [P.]. 



of the Mle. 



b. Ad. sk. Nubia. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. 5 ad.sk. Koomavlee, Abvssinia, W. T.Blanford,Esq. [C.]. 



Feb. '13, ISGS." 



d. S ad. sk. Ailat, Sambar, June 25, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



1868. . 



e. Ad. sk. Ain, Bogos Land ( W. F. Godman and O. Salvin, 



Jesse). Esqrs. [P.]. 



f. S ad. sk. Aukober, Abyssinia, Dec. Sir W. C. Harris [P.]. 



1841. 



g. h. Ad. sk. Khartoum, Dec. 1801. Consul Petherick [C.]. 

 i. Ad. sk. Kordofan. Consul Petherick [C.J. 

 k. Ad. St. Abyssinia. Massena Collection. 



27. Pycnonotus sinensis. 



Le Gobe-mouches verdatre de la Chine, Sonn. Voi/. Inch Orient, ii. 



p. 197. 

 Wreathed Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. part 1, p. 336. 

 Muscicapa sinensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 942. 

 Turdus occipitalis, Less. Traite, p. 410 (descr. nidld) ; Eijd. Sf Ger- 



vais, May. de Zool. 1836, pi. 66 ; iid. Toy. Favorite, Zool. p. 36, 



pi. 14. _ 



Pvcnonotus sinensis, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 569 ; id. Cat. B. 



'Mils. As. Soc. p. 210 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 270, no. 3048. 

 Pycnonotus occipitalis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237 ; Ilorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. 



■B. 3L>s. E.L Co. i. p. 246. 

 Ixus sinensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 206 ; Cass, in Pern/'s Exped. Japan, 



ii. p. 241 ; Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 289 ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 278 ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 369; Wald. Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 191; David .y Oustalet, 



Ois. aiiiie, p. 140. 



Adult male. General colour above dark ashy, with a wash of 

 olive-yellow, the scapulars, as well as the lesser and median wing- 



