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and legs very short. The head is sub-crested, the feathers being 
lanceolate, and the rictal bristles are very few and weak. 
Hypsipetes Ganesa, Sykes. 
446.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 78; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 401. 
Tue GHAT BLack BULBUL. 
Length, 96 to 10°75; expanse, 14 to 15°5; wing, 45 to 5; 
tail, 4°3 to 49; tarsus, 6 to 7:5; bill from gape, 1°83. 
Bill deep coral-red ; irides deep-brown ; legs deep coral-red. 
Above grey-brown, paler beneath ; wings and tail brown ; head 
slightly crested, metallic-black. 
The Ghat Black Bulbul is a rare but permanent resident in 
the more hilly portions of the Deccan. It occurs on the Sabyadri 
Range as far north as Mahableshwar. 
Genus, Criniger, Temminck. 
Bill of moderate length, strong and deep; the culmen well 
curved ; rictal bristles distinct, long ; tail nearly even, with the 
outermost feathers distinctly shorter; head more or less crested. 
Criniger ictericus, Strickland. 
450.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 82; Butler, Deccan ; 
- Stray Feathers, Vol. EX, p. 402. 
THE YELLOW-BROWED BULBUL. 
Length, 8 ; wing, 3°7; tail, 3°5; tarsus, 0°8; bill at front, 0°6. 
Bill black ; irides blood-red ; legs dark-plumbeous. 
Plumage above bright olive-green ; superciliary streak extend- 
ing to the forehead, and the whole plumage beneath bright- 
yellow; quills dusky on their inner webs; the shafts of the tail- 
feathers beneath yellow. 
The Yellow-browed Bulbul has a similar distribution to the 
last, but is locally not uncommon. ; 
Genus, Ixus, Temminck. 
Bill rather short, slightly arching on the culmen, the tip 
bent over, distinctly notched ; commissure nearly straight; a few 
rictal bristles, mixed with some smaller tufts; hairs on the 
nape distinct, and some of the feathers of the throat 
bristle-ended ; lateral toes nearly equal; hind-toe shorter than 
middle-toe ; fourth, fifth and sixth quills sub-equal and_ longest; 
seventh barely shorter; tail slightly rounded in some, almost even 
in others, with the outer feathers slightly shorter. 
Ixus luteolus, Less. 
452.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 84; Butler, Deccan; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 402. 
