158 TIMELIID-E. 



Ilajmatoruis jocosus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. S)C. Nepal pres. Ilvihjs. 



p. 89. 

 Otocompsa jocosa, Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 109; Jerd. B. Inch ii. 



p. 9i> ; Ghilu'.-Aiid. J. A. S. Bcmi. 1870, p. 100. 

 Ixus ervtlirotis, Ilorsf. (V Moore, i'at. B. Mtis. B.I, Co. i. p. 421. 

 Otocompsa monticola, B/ijt/i, Jhis, 1807, p. 8; Htime, S'tr. F. 1873, 



p. 309; Blyth Sf Wald. B. Burm. p. 135; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 



p. 98, 

 Otocompsa emeria, Hume, Sfr. F. 1873, p. 309, 1874, pp. 225, 447 ; 



id. Nests S,- Ef/gs Ind. B. p. 287 ; Ball, Sfr. F. 1874, p. 410; Hume, 



Str. F. 1875, p. 126; Armstr. Str. F. 1876, p. 325 ; Hume, Str.F. 



1877, p. 35 ; Oates, t. c. p. 157 ; Hime Sf Davison, Str. F. 1878, 



p. 515; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. G.3, 98; Scully, t.c. p. 296; 



Anders. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 6.57. 

 Pycuonotus pyrrhotis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 271, no. 3961. 

 I'ycnouotus eiythrotis. Gray, t.c. p. 271, do. 396.3. 



Adult. General colour above brown, from the nape to the upper 

 tail-coverts ; -wings and tail sepia-brown, edged with the lighter 

 brown of the back ; the four centre feathers of the latter uniform, 

 but the three outermost on each side having a distinct white spot 

 at the tip of the inner web, extending onto the outer web of the 

 external rectrix ; head blackish, with a very long crest, the brown 

 of the nape also sUghtly shaded with bhick ; lores and feathers 

 round the eye black, with a small tuft of crimson feathers below the 

 hinder part of the latter ; car-coverts white, as also the cheeks, 

 which are separated from the ear-coverts by a narrow black line ; 

 throat and under surface of body generally dull white, the sides of 

 the body earthy brown, with a distinct half-collar of blackish brown 

 on each side of the upper breast ; under tail-coverts crimson ; under 

 wing-coverts duU white, with a wash of brown near the edge ; " bill 

 black; feet grey; ii'is brown " (i'fa'iV?)- Total length 6-5 inches, 

 culmen 0'7, wing 3'15, tail 3"3, tarsus 0'75. 



Obs. As is well known, there is great difficulty in separating the 

 Tfepal bird {0. pyrrliotis, Hodgs.) from 0. nwntlcola, the difference 

 consisting principally in the greater length of the ear-tuft in the 

 K^epalese bird. This is a character which seems to vary ; and its 

 development appears to increase with the age of the bird, as 

 Mr. Hume found that young birds did not have it at all. The 

 number of white-tipped tail-feathers also varies ; and although I 

 was at first inclined to keep the two birds distinct, I feel sure that 

 they will be found to run into one another. The Assam specimens 

 are thoroughly intermediate, having the long crest of the Nepal bird, 

 but the short dark-crimson ear-tuft of the Eurmese and Malacean 

 race. McClelland described his Ixus monticolus from Assam ; and 

 Mr. Hume seems to recognize it as a distinct species, " having 

 a scarlet ring round the eye, but no red tuft beneath this organ." 

 The specimens in the Museum do not show this peculiarity. 



The Eed-whiskered Bulbul occurs in jungly and well-wooded 

 districts in Northern India, from the Central Himalayas to Assam, 

 where a modified race is met with, which extends throughout the 

 Burmese countries and tSouthern China, down the Malayan peninsula, 

 and also to the Andaman Islands. 



