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but not forming a long crest; tarsus longer than culmen, 

 wing longer than tail. — Seven species known. 



Range: Africa and southern Spain, Arabia, Palestine 

 and Syria, and the islands of Cyprus, Rhodos and the 

 Cyclades. 



Key to the species. 



a. Under tail-coverts yellow. 

 a' . Head brown. 



a". Equal in color above and below, centre of 



abdomen only white, eyelid red capensis. 



b" . Breast, abdomen and flanks white, eyelid black, tricolor, 

 b' . Head black. 



a" . Ear-coverts brown Layardi. 



b" . Ear-coverts black like crown. 



a'". Eyelid red nigricans. 



b'". Eyelid gray xanthopygus. 



b. Under tail-coverts white. 



»'. Head brown barbatus. 



b' . Head black arsinoë. 



1. Pycnonotus capensis. 



Tardus capensis L. Syst. Nat. I, p. 295 (1766). 



Pycnonotus capensis Boie , laia 1826, p. 973; Dresser, Birds Europe, 

 HI, p. 361, pi. 143, fig.2(1875); Sharps, Cat. B.Vr, p. 130(1881). 



Hab. Cape Colony, South Africa. 

 Seven specimens. 



2. Pycnonotus tricolor. 



Ixos tricolor Hartl. Ibis 1862, p. 341. 



Pycnonotus nigricans var. minor Heugl. Orn. N. 0. Afr, I, p. 398(1869). 



Pycnonotus tricolor Gray, Handl. I, p. 269 (1869); Sharps, P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 131, pi. 7, fig. 2; Bocags, Orn. d'Ang. p. 244 (1881); 



Sharps, Cat. B. VI, p. 131 (1881). 

 Pycnonotus minor Rchw. Vög. Deutsch 0. Afr. p. 207 (1894). 



Hab. Congo-region, extending northward to the Ogowe 

 River , southward to the Cunene River and eastward to 

 the Upper Nile and the Central Lake-region. 



Two specimens from the Bahr el Ghazal, collected by 



Notes from the Leyclen ]Museiim, "Vol, XVII. 



