210 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Mr. Henry Jackson has sent us eggs of this species, precisely 
similar to those of P. capensis, and writes that “the nest is a cup, 
slightly formed, in a tree.” 
General colour, brown, slightly darker on the wing and tail 
feathers, the latter pale at the tips; head slightly crested, and black, 
as is also the chin and upper part of throat; lower parts brown, 
like the back, the breast and belly white, flanks brown; vent, 
brilliant citron-yellow; “bill and legs black; iris dark claret” 
(Buckley); ‘eyelids black, thick, but not wattled” (Shelley). 
Length, 7” 9”; wing, 3” 9”; tail, 3” 5”. 
Fig. Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1871, pl. vii. fig. 2. 
N.B.—Although for the present admitting only two species of 
Pycnonotus in South Africa, we do not regard the matter as settled, 
for Mr. T. E. Buckley writes under the heading of P. nigricans 
(Ibis, 1874, p. 369) :—“ There seem to be two sorts, one with a 
flesh-coloured cere round the eye;”? and Mr. Andersson describes a 
bird as common in Damara Land which has the eyes “rather pale 
yellowish-redy and the skin round the eye bright orange” (Cf. 
Gurney in Andersson’s B. Dam. Ld. p. 119). The distribution of 
the species and their characters must be left, however, to the 
naturalists in South Africa to work out from personal observations, 
193. CRaTEROPUS BICOLOR. Pied Babbling-Thrush. — 
Sir Andrew Smith procured this species between the Ky-Gariep 
and Kurrichaine. Lieut. H. Trevelyan has recently sent us a 
specimen procured not far from King William’s Town. I 
In the Transvaal Mr. Ayres has obtained it, and Mr. Buckley — 
writes as follows:—‘ Common throughout the north of the 
Transvaal into the Matabili country, and first met with at 
Eland’s river. The habits of this and of OC. jardinii are similar. 
They go in flocks from tree to tree, following each other almost in 
single file. When one commences its peculiar sort of chuckling 
note, it is followed by the others, the noise increasing until it is 
almost deafening. They creep about the bushes with wonderful 
care; and if a wounded one gets into a tree, it is extremely difficult 
to retrieve it. They have a skimming sort of flight.” 
Dr. Exton, who procured it in the Matabili country, also states 
that “its habits resemble those of C. jardinii, but it is more 
