AVES. 529 



base, with tip curved, emarginate. Nostrils placed in front of the 

 base of bill, open, oval. Very long bristles at the base of bill. 

 Feet short ; tarsus not longer than middle toe. Wings moderate, 

 with first three quills gradually longer, fourth, fifth and sixth 

 longest of all. Tail somewhat long, broad, even or rounded. 



Sp. Trichophorus barbatus Temm. PL col. 88 ; greyish-green with thick yellow 

 feathers under the thi'oat, and a crest of long bristly hau's at the back of 

 the head; from the coast of Guinea, as are some other species. Some also 

 are known from India and the Sunda Islands. Comp. BONAP. Cons^iect. 

 gen. Av, p. 262. 



Phyllastr&plius SwAlNS. 



Comp. SwAiNSON in App. to Fauna boreali-Amer. II. 183 1, p. 486. All 

 the species are from Africa. Here belongs Turdus senegaUnsis Gm., Buff. 

 PI. erd. 563, fig. 2. 



Pycnonotus KuHL, Ixos Temm., Brachypus Swains. Bill short, 

 broad at the base, with culmen curved, keeled. Nostrils placed in 

 a fossa, linear, lateral. Bristles at the sides of mouth. Tarsi short, 

 thick, booted or obscurely scutellate. Wings with fourth and fifth 

 quills subequal, longest of all. Tail somewhat long, rounded or 

 even, with the apex broad. 



+ With bill serrate towards the tip icith four or three notches. {Tarsi 

 scutellate. Tail even.) Sub-gen. Andropadus Swains., Polyodon Lafkes- 



NAYE. 



Sp. Pycnonotus impcrtunus, Turdus importunus Vieill., Lapkesnaye in 

 GuEKiN Magasin de Zoolog. 1832, Ois. PI. 4; Cape of Good Hope. 



++ With bill emarginate towards the tip once only. {Tarsi covered in 

 frcmt with confluent scutella, scarcely distinct or with a continuous scute. 

 Tail rounded.) Pycnonotus auct. {Brachypus, Hcematornis Swains.) 



Sp. Pycnonotus jocosus, Lanius jocosus L., Bkiss. Ornith. ll. PL 21, fig. 2, 

 Buff. PI. enl. 508, Sonner. Voy. aux Ind. Or. PI. 98 (fig. bad), Dixon 

 Voy. round the World, p. 358 and PI. ; China and India. (This species 

 seems to be Ixos pyrrhotis of Hodgson; another very similar species 

 is smaller and has the hinder part of the body yellowish, Pycnonotus jocosus 

 Blyth, Bonap.) These two species are ruddy-brown above, white below ; 

 they have a red spot below the eyes, the head crested. — Pycnonotus cafer 

 ll., Bkiss. Orniih. 11. PI. 20, fig. 2, Buff. PL enl. 563, fig. i; South Africa. 

 In these species the coverts under the base of the tail are red, in other species 

 yellow. Pycnonotus melanocephalus, Lanius melanocephalus Gm., Ixos 

 atriceps Temm. PI. col. 147; yellow-green with shining blackhead; from 

 the Sunda Islan""!, &c, 

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