AND SOME ALLIED GENERA. 237 



Five specimens from Mossamedes. 



About the hybridisation between this species and P. tri- 

 color see an tea, p. 235. 



This species is based by Vieillot upon Levaillant's plate 

 of the „Brunoir", which is represented as having a red 

 eyelid. 



5. Pycnonotus xantJiopygus. 



Ixus xanthopygus Heuipr. & Ehr, Symb. Phys. fol, bb; Riipp. Neue 



Wirbelth. Vög. p. 83. 

 Pycnonotus xanthopygus Dresser, Birds Europe, III, p. 357, pi. 143, 



fig. 4 (1875); Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 135 (1881). 



H a b. North-eastern Africa , Arabia , Palestine , Syria , 

 and the islands of Cyprus, Rhodos and the Cyclades. 



Four specimens from Syria, three from Palestine and 

 one from Akaba in Arabia. This latter specimen differs con- 

 siderably from the others by the much paler color above 

 and below; also the under tail-coverts are paler than in 

 the Syrian and Palestine specimens. 



6. Pycnonotus barbatus. 



Pycnonotus barbatus (Desf.) Dresser, Birds Europe, III, p. 353, pi. 

 142 (1875); Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 146 (1881). 



Hab. North-western Africa, from Algeria and Marocco 

 through upper Guinea down to the Gaboon, where it pro- 

 bably interbreeds with P. tricolor (see antea, p. 235). 



The Leyden Museum contains the following specimens: 

 One said to be from Andalusia (Spain) received from the 

 Paris Museum in 1838, one from Algeria, five from Liberia, 

 five from the Gold Coast and two from the Gaboon. The 

 two latter specimens do not show any yellow color on the 

 under tail-coverts. 



7. Pycnonotus arsinoë. 



Ixus arsinoë Hempr. & Ehr. Symb. Phys. sig. aa. 

 Pycnonotus arsinoë Gray, Gen. B. I , p. 237 (1847); Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. VI, p. 148 (1881). 



Notes from tLie Leyden Museum, 'Vol. XVII. 



