AND SOME ALLIED GENERA. 249 



RuUgula gularis Blyth , J. A. S. Beng. XIV, p. 576 (1845); Sharpe, 



Cat. B. VI, p. 167 (1881). 

 Pycnonotus gularis Oates , B. Br. lod. I, p. 289 (1889). 



Hab. Southern India. 

 Not represented. 



Genus laeidia Blyth. 



Type: Ixldia cyanioentris Blyth . 



Upper surface greenish yellow, head black or gray, no 

 distinct crest, feathers on throat smooth, not different 

 from rest of under surface in color or shape, tarsus equal 

 to the culmen in length, tail shorter than wing, square. — 

 Four species known. 



Range. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra , Java and Borneo. 



Key to the species. 



a. Under surface yellow melanidera. 



b. Under surface gray cyaniventris. 



c. Under surface scaly. 



a'. White tips to outermost tail-feathers shorter, not 



exceeding 1,5 cm. in length squamata. 



h' . White tips on outermost tail-feathers longer, more 



than two cm Webberi. 



1. Ixidia melanictera. 



Muscicapa melanictera Gm. S. N. I, p. 941 (1789). 



Rubigula melanictera Wald. Ibis 1866, p. 321; Legge , Birds Ceylon, 



p. 477 (1880); Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 168 (1881). 

 Pycnonotus melanicterus Oates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 288 (1889). 



Hab. Ceylon. 

 Six specimens. 



2. Ixidia cyaniventris. 



Pycnonotus cyaniventris Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XI, p. 792 (1841); 



Oates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 290 (1889). 

 Ixidia cyaniventris Blytb , J. A. S. Beng. XIV, p. 578 (1845); 



Horsf. & Moore, Cat. 1, p. 247 (1854). 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. ZXVII. 



