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works of reference, as I have available, I believe this species to 
be undescribed. 
Iam uncertain whether it ought properly to be classed as a 
Criniger or Izos, but though it approximates closely to C. icteri- 
cus, and its’affines, it seems to me to correspond most closely with 
plumosus, which I have hitherto followed Blyth in separating as 
an Jvos, though Salvadori, 1 see, and I am inclined to think with 
good reason, includes it as a Criniger. 
I may premise that this supposed new species is at any rate 
not any one of those included by Dr. Finsch in his mono- 
graph (J. furfO., 1867, p. 1), or in Count Salvadori’s recent 
works (Uccelli di Borneo) in which I have found so many of 
our Malayan and Tenasserim birds, nor is it amongst the 
species enumerated in Blyth’s or in Horsfield’s catalogue, nor 
is it, to the best of my belief, included in Mr. Gray’s Hand-list. 
That the bird should be still undescribed would not be surpris- 
ing ; for it belongs to a little sub-group of bulbuls, all the species 
of which are very confusingly similar, and the special locality 
where alone this bird was met with has not previously been 
much explored. | 
In color the upper surface differs scarcely perceptibly from 
what I take to be Criniger Finschit of Salvadori, but it differs 
in its stronger and more truly Criniger-like bill, and in the 
sharp-pointed sub-elongated coronal feathers. In this latter 
respect it resembles /ole, but differs from this in its less straight 
and somewhat deeper bill with slightly more arched culmen. 
To plumosus again it bears a strong general resemblance, and 
the bills are barely separable’ except that that of the present 
species is slightly broader at the base and perhaps slightly more 
compressed as a whole. 
Three males were obtained. The dimensions recorded in the 
flesh were as follows :—Length, 7:0 to 7:5; expanse, 10‘0 to 
10°62; tail from vent, 2°82 to 3°25; wing, 3:25 to 3°37; 
tarsus, 0°55 to 0°65; bill, from gape, 0°8 to 0°9; weight, from 
a little over 0°75 oz. to a little over one 0z.; upper mandible, 
black or very dark horny brown; lower mandible, pale plum- 
beous or pale brown tinged with plumbeous ; irides, in two 
specimens sienna brown, in one litharge red legs and feet, 
pinkish brown or dark salmon fleshy. 
The ground color of the entire upper surface is a hair brown, 
but except on the wings and tail, the feathers are so broadly 
margined with dark olive green, that this latter color altogether 
predominates. 
On the crown and occiput the brown centres of the feathers 
are faintly noticeable, giving a slightly squammated appearance 
to these parts, and here and there on the back, also, the browner 
