AVES. 529 



base, with tip curved, emarginate. Nostrils placed in front of the 

 base of bill, open, oval. Very long bristles at the base of bill. 

 Feet short ; tarsus not longer than middle toe. Wings moderate, 

 with first three quills gradually longer, fourth, fifth and sixth 

 longest of all. Tail somewhat long, broad, even or rounded. 



Sp. Trichophorus barbatus TEMM. PL col. 88 ; greyish-green with thick yellow 

 feathers under the throat, and a crest of long bristly hairs at the back of 

 the head ; from the coast of Guinea, as are some other species. Some also 

 are known from India and the Sunda Islands. Comp. BONAP. Conspect. 

 gen. Av. p. 262. 



Phyllastrepkus SWAINS. 



Comp. SWAINSON in App. to Fauna boreali-Amer. II. 1831, p. 486. All 

 the species are from Africa. Here belongs Turdus senegalensis GM., BUFF. 

 PL ml. 563, fig. 2. 



Pycnonotus KUHL, Ixos TEMM., Brachypw S WAINS. Bill short, 

 broad at the base, with culmen curved, keeled. Nostrils placed in 

 a fossa, linear, lateral. Bristles at the sides of mouth. Tarsi short, 

 thick, booted or obscurely scutellate. Wings with fourth and fifth 

 quills subequal, longest of all. Tail somewhat long, rounded or 

 even, with the apex broad. 



t With bill serrate towards the tip with four or three notches. (Tarsi 

 scutellate. Tail even.) Sub-gen. Andropadus SWAINS., Polyodon LAFBES- 

 NAYE. 



Sp. Pycnonotus importunus, Turdus importunus VIEILL., LAFBESNAYE in 

 GUEBIN Magasin de Zoolog. 1832, Ois. PI. 4; Cape of Good Hope. 



*H" With bitt emarginate towards the tip once only. (Tarsi covered in 

 front with confluent scutella, scarcely distinct or with a continuous scute. 

 Tail rounded.) Pycnonotus auct. (Brachypus, Hcematornis SWAINS.) 



Sp. Pycnonotus jocosus, Lanius jocosus L., BRISS. Ornith. n. PL 21, fig. 2, 

 BUFF. PL enl. 508, SONNEB. Voy. aux Ind. Or. PL 98 (fig. bad), DIXON 

 Voy. round the World, p. 358 and PL ; China and India. (This species 

 seems to be Ixos pyrrhotis of HODGSON; another very similar species 

 is smaller and has the hinder part of the body yellowish, Pycnonotus jocosus 

 BLYTH, BONAP.) These two species are ruddy-brown above, white below ; 

 they have a red spot below the eyes, the head crested. Pycnonotus cafer 

 L., BRISS. Ornith. n. PL 20, fig. 2, BUFF. PL enl. 563, fig. i; South Africa. 

 In these species the coverts under the base of the tail are red, in other species 

 yellow. Pycnonotus melanocephalus, Lanius melanocephalus GM., Ixos 

 atriceps TEMM. PL col. 147; yellow-green with shining blackhead; from 

 the Sunda Islands, &c. 

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