286 CEATEEOPODID^E. 



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 of brilliant plumage. They are solitary in their habits 

 and very arboreal, and it is a rare occurrence to see any of them 

 on the ground. 



Among the Bulbuls of this genus which may hereafter be found 

 in British territory may be mentioned P. aanthorrhous, a species 

 which Anderson obtained at Manwyne, Momein, and Shitee hill, 

 to the east of Bhamo in the Kakhyen hills and on the borders of 

 China. This bird is found throughout Southern China. I append 

 a description of it *. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat white P. analis, p. 287. 



b. Throat streaked with bright yellow. 



a'. Anterior half of crown of a different colour 



to the hinder half and nape P.Jinlaysoni, p. 287. 



b' . The whole crown and nape of the same 



colour P. davisoni, p. 288. 



c. Throat yellow. 



c'. Crown black P. melanicterus, p, 288. 



d' . Crown yellow P. xantholcemus, p. 289. 



d. Throat ruby-red P. gularis, p. 289. 



e. Throat slaty blue P. cyaniventris, p. 290. 



/. Throat brown or grey. 



e'. Under tail-coverts yellow P. luteolus, p. 290. 



f. Under tail-coverts brown or buff. 



a". Ear-coverts entirely silvery white .... P. blanfordi, p. 291. 

 b". Ear-coverts brown with silvery white 



shafts P. plumositS) p. 292. 



c". Ear-coverts like the crown. 



a'". Wing more than 3 inches P. simplex, p. 292. 



b'". Wing less than 3 inches P. pusillus, p. 293. 



* PYCNONOTUS XANTHORUHOUS, Anderson, Proc. A. 8. Beng. 1869, p. 265 ; id. 

 P.Z. S. 1871, p. 214; id. Yunnan Exped,, Aves, p. 658, pi. li ; Skarpe, 

 Cat. B. M. vi, p. 139. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, lores, a ring round the eye, and a narrow 

 cheek-stripe extending to the end of the ear-coverts black ; a small spot of deep 

 red at the base of the lower mandible near the gape ; ear-coverts glossy hair- 

 brown ; chin and throat pure white ; upper plumage brown, the feathers with 

 obsoletely paler edges ; the wings and tail darker brown, the former margined 

 with the colour of the back, the latter narrowly tipped with white ; sides of 

 the neck brown, meeting across the breast in a crescentic band ; abdomen and 

 vent whitish ; sides of body and the thighs brown ; under tail-coverts deep 

 golden yellow ; underside of shafts of tail-feathers white. 



Bill black ; feet blaokish ; iris brownish red (Pere David). 



Length about 8'5 ; tail 3'8 ; wing 3'6 ; tarsus - 9 ; bill from gape '8. 



Since the above was in type Count Salvadori has recorded the occurrence of 

 this species in Karennee (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii. p. 398 (1889)). 



