Pat ASIATIC SRBCins. OF BIRDS OTHE 
GENUS CRINIGER (PYCNONOTIDAE) 
By H. G. DEIGNAN 
Associate Curator, Division of Birds 
U. S. National Museum 
Smithsonian Institution 
Among the birds of tropical Asia, few groups can have been the 
subject of so many revisions with such diverse results as the forms 
of the pycnonotine genus Crimiger. In the course of studies made in 
connection with work on the bulbuls for the continuation of the late 
J. L. Peters’s “Check-list of Birds of the World,” I have found that 
there has been no agreement among the several authors even as to 
the number of species involved, and it has frequently proved quite 
impossible for me to decide which form was meant by a name used 
in a particular instance. In the circumstances, I have been compelled 
to make a wholly new study based upon personal examination of 
hundreds of specimens and of many of the pertinent types, and here 
present a new arrangement that will, I believe, settle most of the 
previously doubtful points of relationship within the group. Six 
species (five of them polytypic) are accepted, each of which appears 
to be somewhere sympatric with one or more of the others, but in the 
pages to follow will be found no comment on the two uncontroversial 
species, finschii Salvadori, 1871, and phaeocephalus (Hartlaub), 1844. 
CRINIGER FLAVEOLUS (Gould), 1836 
Criniger flaveolus flaveolus (GouLD). 
Trichophorus flaveolus Goutp, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 4, No. 37, April 0, 
1836, p. 6 (‘“‘ in montibus Himalayensibus, in Nepalia, «c.”; type locality 
restricted to Nepal, by Koelz, Contr. Inst. Reg. Expl., No. 1, 1954, p. 10). 
Trichophorus xanthogaster Hovcson, in J. E. Gray, Zoological Miscellany, 
No. 3, “June” 1844, p. 83 (Nepal). Nomen nudum. 
Lanixus xanthogaster “Hodgs.” BowpLer SHARPE, Catalogue of the Birds in 
the British Museum, vol. 6, 1881, p. 77 (Nepal). In synonymy with Criniger 
flaveolus (Gould), not Criniger xanthogaster Cassin, 1855. 
Trichophorus xanthogaster “Hodgs.” BowDLerR SHARPE, Catalogue of the Birds 
in the British Museum, vol. 6, 1881, p. 77 (Nepal). In synonymy with 
Criniger flaveolus (Gould), not Criniger xanthogaster Cassin, 1855. 
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