168 tiheliid.t;. 



Brachypiis ruLiiious, /,';•(/. Madr. Joiini. x. p. 34G (1830) ; id Illustr. 



Ind. Orn. pi. xxxvii. 

 Rubijrula frulavU, Dh/th, J. A. S. Bmq. xiv. p. 570, xv. p. 287 ; Jcrd. B. 



Ltd. ii. p. 87 ; Hartl. Str. F. 1877, p. 40o ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, 



p. 98. 

 Pvcnouotiis gulavis, Gra)/, Gen. B.\. p. 237; Blyth, Cat. B. Miis. 



'At. Sor. p. I'll ; Ilorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Miis. E.I. Co. i. p. 245 ; 



Graij, Ilnnd-l. B. i. p". 2G9, no. 3938. 

 Pyctionotus rubineus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237. 



Adult. Above ycUowish olive, the wing-coverts like the back, but 

 narrowly edged with brighter yellow ; quills dusky brown, externally 

 ycllo^vish olive, with a narrow outer margin of brighter yellow ; tail- 

 feathers olive-brown, edged with brighter yellow, the outer feathers 

 with pale yellow ends ; crown and nape and entire sides of head 

 glossy black, as also a tiny chin-spot ; throat orange-scarlet ; 

 remainder of under surface of body, from the lower throat down- 

 wards, bright yellow, slightly inclining to orange, the sides of the 

 chest and flanks washed with olive ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries yellow, or white washed with yellow ; quills dusky brown 

 below, whitish along the edge of the inner web ; " biU black ; legs 

 greenish dusky ; iris light yellow " (Jerdon). Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0-0, wing 2-8, tail 2-5, tarsus 0'6. 



The Indian Ruby-throated Eulbul is only known from Southern 

 India. 

 a, h. Ad. sk. Malabar. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Madras. Purchased. 



d. Ad.sk. Madras (7T7(//i^). India Museum. 



3. Rubigula melanictera. 



Yellow-breasted Flycatcher, Broivn, Illustr. Zool. p. 80, pi. 32. 



Muscicapa melanictera, Gtn. S. N. i. p. 941 (ex Broivn). 



yEgithina atricapilla, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. i. p. 176(1816). 



lora nigricapilla, Drapiez, Diet. Class, vi. p. 170 (teste Walden). 



Rubigula aberrans, Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xv. p. 288. 



Pvcnonotus atricapillus, Blyth, Cut. B. Miis. As. &(?. p. 211 ; Bayard, 



Ann. Nat. Hist. (2) xiii. p. 125; Gray, Hund-l. B. i. p. 269, 



no. 3939. 

 PycDonotus nigricapillus, Kelaart, Prodr. Cat. p. 12.3. 

 Rubigula gularis, Kelaart, t. c. p. 123. 

 Brachypus gulavis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 264 {nee Gould). 

 Meropixus melanicterus, B]}. C. R. xxxviii. 1854, p. 58. 

 Rubigula melanictera, Walden, Ibis, 1866, p. 321 ; Bli/th, Ibis, 1867, 



p. 304 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 451 ; Leyye, Str. F. 1875, p. 368 ; 



id. Birds of Ceylon, p. 477. 



tion of the scarlet throat, -which is the most striking feature in the species, and 

 ■nithout which the description suits the Oeylonesc species (/?. melanictems). Lord 

 Walden, in an elaborate paper on the " MiiscicajM melanictera of Gmelin " 

 (Ibis, IBBf), p. 316), called attention to the omission in Mr. Ciould's description, 

 and added Brachjpus gularis, Gould, as a synonym of the Ceylonese Ruhk/iila 

 melanictera. Later on however, Mr. Gould showed him the type of his Bra- 

 chypus gidaris from Travancore ; aiid the species must therefore stand under his 

 name, as the colouring of the throat was omitted bv a lapsus calami. (Cf. 

 Walden, Ibis, 1800, p. 423.) 



