186 PYCNONOTINA, 
THE WHITE-BROWED BusH BULBUL. 
Length, 7:5; wing, 3'5; tail, 35; tarsus, 0°8; bill at front 0°6. 
Bill blackish ; irides blood-red ; legs dark-plumbeous. 
Above dull-brownish olive-green, palest on the head, where it is 
slightly ashy, and yellowish on the rump; quills and coverts 
edged with brighter green ; over the eye to the ear-coverts, and 
from the base of the upper mandible extending below the eye, 
obscure white; chin, and base of lower mandible, pale clear 
yellow ; lower parts whitish-ashy, tinged with pale-yellow ; the 
breast dashed with brownish-grey, and the vent and under tail- 
coverts pale-yellow. 
The White-browed Bush Bulbul is a permanent resident in 
some portions of the Deccan, but is very local, and appears to 
avoid the Ghat Range. 
Gents, Rubigula, Blyth. 
Bill rather short, moderately stout; rictal bristles small or 
moderate ; tail slightly rounded, or almost even ; head black, 
more or less crested ; the feathers of the back loose and decom- 
posed ; irides yellow. 
Rubigula gularis, Gould. 
455.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 87; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 402. 
THE RUBY-THROATED BULBUL. 
Length, 65; wing, 3; tail, 2°75 ; tarsus, 0°55 ; bill at front, 
0-4. 
bill black ; irides light-yellow ; legs greenish-dusky. 
Head and cheeks pure glossy-black; plumage above yellow- 
ish olive-green ; a small chin spot black ; throat beautiful shin- 
ng ruby-red, the feathers much divided and somewhat bristly ; 
the rest of the plumage beneath bright-yellow; quills with a 
tinge of dusky on the inner webs. 
The Ruby-throated Bulbul is very rare. Mr. Laird procured 
it in the forests west of Belgaum, but this is the only record of 
its occurrence within our limits. 
Genvs, Brachypodius, Blyth. 
Bill somewhat as in Rubigula, short, rather deep at the base 
but the rictal bristles more feeble ; tail more or less rounded. 
Brachypodius poiocephalus, Jerdon. 
457.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 89; Butler, Deccan; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 402. 
THE GREY-HEADED BULBUL. 
Length, 7 ; expanse, 9; wing, 3; tail, 2°8 ; tarsus, 0°25; bill at 
front, 0°46. 
Bill greenish-horny ; irides bluish-white ; legs reddish-yellow. 
