410 PYCNONOTID#. 
Genus PYCNONOTUS Kuhl, 1826. 
With the exception of the genus Molpastes, the present genus 
contains a far greater number of species and subspecies than any 
other and of these there are representatives found from Ceylon 
to Central India and from Arrakan to the Malayan Islands and 
again East through the Kachin Hills to China. .The genus is, 
however, not represented in Northern India or North-West 
Burma. 
In Pycnonotus the bill is of small size and the nuchal hairs are 
obsolete or small. Many of the species are of dull colour but a 
few are ct brilliant plumage. 
Key to Species. 
A. Throat white. [p. 410. 
a. Forehead and crown dark brown.... P. govavier analis, [p. 411. 
b. Forehead and crown black ........ P. aurigaster vanthorrhous, 
B. Throat grey streaked with bright yellow LP. finlaysoni, p. 412. 
C. Throat yellow. 
CrGnowiibluck: «tiie ye eee amione P. melanicterus, p. 414. 
da. Crown ‘yellow ig 5 itive ean nx 9s. P. xantholemus, p. 415. 
DD. Whroatruby-ted | samp + ucrme ale melstons P. gularis, p. 415. 
Howhhroatislaty=blwe: cow aaron sie ae eee P. cyaniventris, p. 416. 
I’. Throat brown or grey. 
e. Under tail-coverts yellow .......... P. luteolus, p. 417. 
Jj. Under tail-coverts brown or buff. 
a’. Ear-coverts silvery-white or with 
silvery-white shafts............ P. plumosus, p. 418. 
6'. War-coverts like the crown. 
Gl, (NWWine over fo MMs aa. s eee P. simplex, p. 421. 
bY. Wine under 7omm. | ..4 2%. P. erythropthalmus, p. 422. 
(425) Pycnonotus goiavier analis. 
THe YELLOW-VENTED BULBUL. 
Turdus analis Horsf., Trans. L. 8., xiii, p. 147 (1820) (Java). 
Pycnonotus analis. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 287. 
Vernacular names. J/érébah (Malay). 
Description. The whole upper plumage brown tinged with olive, 
darker on the head and the feathers with faint pale edges; wings 
and tail dark brown edged with olive-brown; a broad supercilium 
white ; lores and feathers on the eyelids black; ear-coverts pale 
brown; cheeks, chin and throat whitish; breast brown, the 
feathers with pale edges; abdomen white suffused with brown 
and flanks darker brown; under tail-coverts sulphur-yellow. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris wood-brown or chocolate; legs, feet, 
claws and bill black. 
Measurements. Total length about 200 mm.; wing about 83 to 
91 mm.; tail about 80 to 85 mm.; tarsus about 20 mm.; culmen 
about 15 mm. 
Distribution. Tenasserim and Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 
Java, Borneo, Siam, Cochin China. 
