172 TIMELIID^. 



colouring may be imperfect. Tu the extent of "white on the tail the 

 Bornean and Malaccan examples agree ; and the qneflion of their 

 further identity must remain till a larger series can be compared. 

 They agree Avith Hume's description of I.vidia webheri. 



"Webber's Bnlbiil replaces the foregoing species in Borneo, Sumatra, 

 and the Malayan peninsula. 



a. Ad. sk. Sumatra. Purchased. 



h. Ad. sk. Sarawak, Borneo. Henry Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. 



26. SPIZIXUS. 



Type. 



Spizixos, Bbjth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. o71 (1845) S. cauifrons. 



Head of 82^1^1x113 canifrons. 

 Range. Hills of Sylhet, Khasia hills, Foochow, and Formosa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Ear-coverts uniform brown ; head black ; foi'e- 



head gTey ; uo v^hite patch on sides of throat, canifrons, p. 172. 

 h. Ear-coverts streaked vnih white ; a white patch 

 on each side of the throat, 



a' . Crown black, nape grey seiiuforqiies. p. 173. 



b'. Crown entirel}' grey cinereicapiUus, p. 173. 



1. Spizixus canifrons. 



Spizixus canifrons, Blyth, J. A. S. Bene/, xiv. p. 571, xx. p. 520 ; id. 



Cat. B. Mils. As. Sue. p. 339 ; Iloisf. f Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. 



Co. i. p. 251 ; Gould, B. Asia, part xviii.; Godirin-Austen, J. A. S. 



Beng. 1870, vol. xxxix. p. 106; Blyth, Ibis, 1872, p. 90. 

 Pycnonotus canifrons, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 271, no. 3969. 



Adult. General colour above dark olive-yeUow, becoming ycUower 

 on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; tail-feathers dull 

 olive-yellow, browner on the inner web, and having a broad terminal 

 baud of blackish brown ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills dark 

 brown, externally olive-yellowish, the inner secondaries entirely of 

 this colour : head strongly crested, the crown black, the nape slightly 

 washed with grey ; forehead ashy grey ; ear-coverts light brown ; 



