PYCNOXOTUS. 291 



Ixos luteolus (Less.), Jerd. B. 2. ii, p. 84; Hume, N. <y E. p. 2>.5 ; 

 Blauf. J. A. S. B. xxxviii, pt. ii, p. 178 ; Ball, 8. F. ii, p. 410, iv, 

 p. 285 J Fairlmnk, S. F. iv, p. 258, v, p. 405; Ball, <V. F. vii, 

 p. LM4 ; Hume, Cat. no. 452 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 04; Butler, S. F. 

 ix, p. 402 ; Davison, S. F. x, p. 381 ; Bwnes, Birds Bom. p. 185 ; 

 littledale, Journ. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 198. 



The ll'hite-browzd Bush Bulbul, Jerd.; Poda-piyli, Tel.; Guluyuluwct, 

 Ceyl. 



Coloration. Upper plumage dull olive-green, tinged with ashy on 

 the head and with fulvous on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 wings and tail brown, washed with green on the outer webs ; front 

 of forehead, a broad streak from the nostril over the eye and 

 partially over the ear-coverts, and an indistinct ring round the eye 

 white ; lores mingled Avhite and black ; a stripe from the base of 

 the lower mandible and also the point of the chin yellow ; lower 

 plumage ashy, tinged and somewhat striped with pale yellow, the 

 breast washed with brown : vent and under tail-coverts pale 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts and edge of wing yellow. 



Bill blackish ; legs dark plumbeous ; iris blood-red (Jerdon). 



Length nearly 8 ; tail 3-3 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus 9 ; bill from gape 

 95. 



Distribution. The peninsula of India, from Baroda on the west 

 and Midnapore on the east down to Cape Comorin ; Ceylon. Rare 

 or absent on the Deccan tableland and throughout the greater part 

 of the Central Provinces. 



Habits, $c. Nests of this Bulbul have been found near Bombay 

 in June and September. The nest is a loose structure of twigs 

 lined with grass built in a bush or low tree. The eggs are pinkish 

 white marked with reddish brown, and measure about *95 by *63. 



306. Pycnonotus blanfordi. Stanford's Balbal. 



Pycnonotus blanfordi, Jerdon, Ibis, 1862, p. 20 ; Anders. Yunnan 



Exped., Aves,y. 659 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 151 ; Gates, B. B. 



i, p. 195 ; id. in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i. p. 190. 

 Pycnonotus familiaris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxxi, p. 343 (1862). 

 Microtarsus blanfordi (Jerd.), Hume, S. F. iii, p. 125. 

 Ixus blanfordi (Jerd.), Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 134 ; Gates, S. F. v, 



p. 156; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ifjis, 1877, p. 466; Hume, Cat. no. 452 



quint. ; Gates, S. F. x, p. 210. 



Coloration. Upper plumage earthy brown with an olive tinge, 

 washed with fulvous on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; the 

 centres of the feathers of the head deeper brown ; wings and tail 

 brown, the outer webs of the same colour as the back ; lores, 

 cheeks, and chin dull white tinged with ashy ; ear-coverts silvery 

 white; lower plumage pale brown on the breast, streaked and 

 mottled with pale fulvous, entirely fulvous on the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and edge of wing yellowish 

 fulvous. 



The iris varies from yellowish brown to red ; eyelids plumbeous ; 



