21. PTCXOXOTTTS. lo3 



y. $ ad. sk. Pakii, Sarawak, Nov. 1878. 



A. (S ad. sk. Jambusaa, N.W. Borneo. 



i. Ad. sk. Labuan. ^^ / ^ >. ^ 



A. Juv. sk. Labuan {H. Low). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



31. Pycnonotus cinereifrons. 

 Bracbj'pus cinereifrons, Tweed. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 617. 



Adult male (Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Dec. 14, 1877 ; A, Everett: 

 type of species). General colour above dull olive-brown, the head a 

 little darker than the back, the rump and upper tail-coverts rather 

 more ochraceous brown ; wing-coverts olive-greenish ; quills dusky 

 brown, estern;illy edged with olive-greeu, the secondaries browner 

 and more like the back ; quills brown, margined with olive-greenish 

 and narrowly edged with whity brown at the tip ; frontal plumes 

 ashy, somewhat pointed, producing a scaly appearance, which ex- 

 tends a little way over the eye ; ear-coverts dusky brown, with 

 narrow whitish shaft-lines ; throat dull brownish white ; fore neck 

 and chest light ashy brown, as also the sides of the body, faintly 

 washed with olive ; abdomen dull white, slightly washed with olive ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts saffron-yellow, with dusky brown 

 centres ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and edge of wing saffron ; 

 quills dusky brown below, saffron-coloured along the inner web ; 

 " bUl blackish brown ; legs and feet purple-brown ; iris deep red 

 burnt-sienna " (yl. -Ci-'e^-f^). Total length 7"o inches, culmen 0-8, 

 wing 3-3, tail 3-2, tarsus 0-85. {Mus. R. G. Wanllaw Ramsay.) 



Adult female. Does not differ in colour from the male. Total 

 length 7'2 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-55, tail 3'45, tarsus 0-75. 

 (J/ha\ R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



The Ashy-fronted Bulbul is only known from the island of 

 Palawan, Phihppine archipelago, 



a. (S ad. sk. Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Lieut. E. G. Wardlaw Eamsay. 



Dec. 1877 {A. Everett). 

 h. 5 ad. sk. Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw Eamsay. 



Jan. 1878 {A. Everett). 



32. Pycnonotus simplex. (Plate IX.) 



Pycnonotiis simplex, Legs. Rev. Zool. 1830, p. 167 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



'i. p. 270, no. yiJol. 

 Pvcnonotus brunneus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 568 ; id. Cat. B. 



'Mus. As. Soc. p. 210; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 2li9, no. 3965. 

 Pycnonotus modestus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xiv. p. 568, note (ex A. 



'Hay, MS.). 

 Ixos brunneus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 206. 

 Microtarsus olivaceus, Xfoore, in Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mks. E.I. 



Co. i. p. 249. 

 Microscelis olivaceus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 268, no. 3921. 

 Ixus brunneus, Hume Sf Davis. Str. F. 1878, p. 312; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, pp. C2, i)8. 



