8 Mr. Blyth^s Commentary 



a " White-eared Bulbul/' which has not since been identified. 

 Both are from the Mysore country, below the Nilgiris; but 

 the skins were accidentally destroyed before he took descrip- 

 tions of them. The notice of the latter species is as follows : — 

 " Above light green, below greenish-yellow ; head, neck, and 

 breast dusky-grey ; ear-spat white. '^ 



Rubiyula aherrans, nobis (ii. p. 88), is referred by Lord Wal- 

 den (Ibis, 1866, pp. 321, 423) to Muscicapa melanictera, Gmelin, 

 but is still retained in Rubiyula. A common species in Ceylon 

 (Ibis, 1860, p. 358, note). 



457. Brachypodius poiocephalus ; Ixus fisqueti, Eydoux 

 and Souleyet, Voy, de la Bonitc, Atlas, Ois., pi. 15. 



460. Otocompsa jocosa. 



As many as four races have been confounded under this 

 name : — 1, that of China, which is the true Lanius jocosus, L.; 

 — 2, that of Bengal and Nipal, which is Lanius emeria, Shaw, 

 Ixus pyrrhotis, Hodgson ; — 3, that of Southern India, which is 

 O. fuscicaudata, Gould (P. Z. S. 1865, p. 664) ; — 4, that of the 

 eastern side of the Bay of Bengal, its range extending from the 

 hills south of the Brahmaputra valley as far southward as 

 Pinang, which is /. monticolus, Maclelland. The last differs 

 from L. emeria in having a shorter crimson ear-tuft, of a much 

 deeper colour, and the feathers composing it are more rigid and 

 wiry. O. fuscicaudata, of Southern India, has no white spots 

 on the tail-feathers ; and there does not appear to be a repre- 

 sentative of this particular type in Ceylon. Mr. Gould first 

 called my attention to the distinction of the South Indian race. 

 The Chinese race I only presume to be peculiar, for I have had 

 no opportunity of comparing it with the others. According 

 to Mr. Swinhoc, Chinese specimens are " identical with the 

 Calcutta race." It ranges from Canton southward. 



462. Pycnonotus HjEMORRHous of India, auctorum. 



This must now stand as P. pusillus, nobis, the true Musci- 

 capa Ji(Emo7rhousa, Gm., referring to Ixus chrysorrhoides of Mr. 

 Swinhoe's list (P. atricapillus, A. Hay), which is figured as 

 Ixus hcemorrhous in the Ornithological Report accompanying 

 the narrative of Commodore Perry's Expedition. The Tenas- 



