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Upper mandible black; lower mandible, pale brown; legs 

 and feet, fleshy brown ; irides, red brown. 



The forehead, crown, occiput and full broad occipital crest, 

 back, entire visible portions of closed wings and tail, cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, a nearly uniform brown ; the upper tail-coverts 

 similar, but with a slightly more olivaceous tinge. 



Lores and an obscure stripe on either side from the gape 

 under the cheeks and ear-coverts, a richer and darker brown. 



Chin, throat and sides of neck and entire lower surface of body 

 silky white, every where, (except on the middle of the abdomeu,) 

 with longitudinal brown streaks, very narrow (as in /. flavicol- 

 lis) on chin and throat and breast, broader on sides, flanks and 

 lower abdomen, and occupying nearly the whole feather on lower 

 tail-coverts. 



Tibial feathers brown. 



Wing lining and inner margins of quills, silky white. 



A typical Ixulus, harmonizing well with Jlavicollis, occipitalis 

 and the species now commonly identified as striatus. 



Now it will be observed that I have apparently assumed that 

 the bird, which we obtain in the Himalayas, and which Jias 

 been almost universally accepted as striatus, Blyth, is really 

 that species, as also that my new species is not that species. 



As to this latter I have no doubt; Blyth's original descrip- 

 tion (J. A. S. B., XXVIII, p. 413, 1859) is as follows :— 



" Ixulus striatus, nobis, N. S. A fourth species of this 

 genus, affined to 1. castaniceps, Moore, P. Z. S., 1854-, p. 141, 

 aud like that species with graduated outer tail feathers. Bill 

 moderately stout, as in 1. occipitalis, nobis. Length about 

 five inches, of closed wing 2f inches, and of tail the same ; bill 

 to gape ^ inch aud tarsi f inch Colour greyish brown above, 

 each feather with a white mesial streak ; below albescent 

 throughout ; outermost feather f inch shorter than the middle 

 pair, and largely tipped with white, as is also the next, aud the 

 antepenultimate, and next within gradually less so, the outer 

 four feathers successively graduating." 



Besides this independently Tickell had a few weeks previ- 

 ously, (though it was not published until after Blyth's descrip- 

 tion), described the same specimen (J. A. S. B., Vol. cit. 452) 

 as follows : — 



Pycnonotus (Kuhl.) Nanus (Mihi.) 



Spec. male. March 2nd, 1859. Near Tretoungplee, 3,000 feet. 



Dimensions. — Length, 5fV ; wing, 2| ; tail, 2£ ; bill, T \ ; 

 tarsus, f ; mid toe, f . 



Details. — Typical, crested. 



Colors. — Iris blood red brown ; bill dark horn ; legs reddish 

 horn ; upper parts including a blunt crest, ashy brown. 



