20 TIMELID/E. 



Above dark slaty grey or grey brown, paler beneath, wings and tail brown ; 

 head subcrested metallic black ; sides of face slate grey, no black stripe on 

 cheek ; bill coral red or orange vermilion in skin ; feet orange yellow. 



Length. 8-5 to 9 inches; wing 4-5; tail 4 to 4-15; tarsus 07 to 075; 

 culmen I to ri. 



Hab. Hill ranges of Southern India, extending on the western side 

 along the Western Ghauts to the Mahableshwar Hills and to Matheran and 

 Ceylon. Sykes' Bulbul breeds from March and April to June. The nest is 

 placed in some dense clump of leaves or parasitic plant (in Southern India), 

 which covers nearly every acacia and other tree. It builds a cup-shaped nest, 

 neatly and firmly made of green moss, grass, stalks and fibres. Eggs similar 

 to those of psaroides-, 1*0 to 17 X 07 to 0*8. Hypsipetes virescens, a species 

 with a dull olive greenish upper surface, white throat and pale yellow under 

 surface, streaked with brighter yellow, and with a horny brown bill, is an 

 inhabitant of the Nicobar Islands. 



Gen. HemiXUS- Hodgs. 



Bill moderately slender ; rictal bristles strongly developed, reaching much 

 beyond the nostrils ; culmen very slightly arched, longer than or equalling the 

 tarsus ; nostrils oval, with a distinct superior membrane ; tarsus strong, 

 smooth, without scutes, or a subtenninal one only ; tail moderately long, 

 even, almost emarginate, square ; wings with the 5th and 6th quills longest ; 

 toes short, unequal ; claws much curved. 



Head of Hemixus flavala to show pointed form of crest plumes. 



429. HemiXUS flavala, Hodgs., Icon. ined. in Br.Mus., Passerespls. 

 190, 191, fig. 2 ; id., J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 572; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 80, 

 No. 448 ; Godw.- Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 106. Blyth, B. Burm. 

 p. 133 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. iii. ; id., 1879, p. 98; Scully, t. c. p. 295 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vi. p. 49; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 175, The 

 BROWN-EARED BULBUL. 



Adult. Upper plumage with the lesser and median wing coverts dark 

 ashy, the upper tail coverts tinged with olive green ; bastard wing and 

 primary coverts and quills dark brown, the outer greater ones and the secon- 



