34 TIMELIID^E. 



p. 61. Pycnonotus ictericus, Elyth, J. A. S. B. 1844, xiv. p. 570. The 

 YELLOW-BROWED BULBUL. 



Above bright olive yellow or olive green ; wing coverts the same ; quills 

 dark brown, their outer webs edged with olive yellow ; tail dull olive yellow, 

 dusky along the inner webs and towards the tips ; lores, a narrow eyebrow 

 and feathers round the eye bright yellow; ear coverts yellow, shaded with 

 olive; cheeks and under surface of body bright yellow; the sides and breast 

 washed with olive ; under wing coverts and axillaries bright yellow ; bill 

 black ; legs and feet dusky slatish ; iris red or blood red. 



Length. 7*4 to 8 inches; wing 3-4 to 37; tail 3 ; tarsus cr8; culmen 075. 



Hab. Ceylon and Southern India, not ranging higher than Bombay. (Sh.) 

 Recorded from Malabar, Coorg, Travancore and Ceylon. Jerdon says it 

 prefers mountainous regions, and that it is abundant on the slopes of the 

 Neilgherries, living in small flocks and keeping up a continual mellow warble 

 when flying from tree to tree. Breeds from March to May. Nest a small 

 shallow cup hung between two twigs, and composed of excessively fine twigs. 

 It is lined with hair-like grasses, and attached by cobwebs. Eggs two to three 

 in number of a pinkish salmon colour, with a dark ring at the thick end, 

 and speckled more or less thickly over the whole surface of the egg with 

 pale brownish red or pink. Size 0*9 to 1*03 x 0^64 to 07. 



Gen. Pycnonotus. Bole. 



Bill rather long, thin and slightly curved ; rictal bristles strong ; legs and 

 feet stoutish ; tarsi with a single scute at insertion of feet ; toes scutellate ; 

 head more or less crested, but not conspicuously so. 



449. Pycnonotus haemorrhous, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 566; 



id. xv. p. 50; Gray, Gen. B. i p. 237; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 94, No. 462 ; 

 Sir. F., 1875, p. 292; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. vi. ; Murray, Handbk., 

 ZooL, &c., Sind. Haematornis haemorrhous, Swains, Faun. Bor. Amer. B. 

 p. 485. Pycnonotus pusillus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237; Sir. F. 1878, 

 p. 258; Hume, t. c.p. 456; Str. F., 1877, p. 246. Molpastes hoemorrhous, 

 Hume, Str. F., 1879, p. 98. The COMMON MADRAS BULBUL. 



Head crested, black ; chin and throat black ; neck, back and wing coverts 

 brown, more or less pale edged ; upper tail coverts white ; tail brownish 

 black, tipped with white ; breast brown, all the feathers edged with white or 

 ashy; lower abdomen and vent white; flanks and thigh coverts light brown ; 

 under tail coverts crimson ; under wing coverts whitish. Bill black ; legs 

 greenish or slaty green ; hides deep brown. 



Length. 775 to 8 inches ; wing 3-4 ; tail 3-4 ; tarsus O'S ; bill at front 0-9. 



Hab. Ceylon, Southern and Central India (Mhow), Travancore, Deccan, 

 Concan, Malabar, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore and North Guzerat ; also the 



