JOURNAL 



OP THE 



Ho, IJ 



BOMBAY, 1892. 



[Vol. vn. 



THE BiTLfiTJLS OF NORTH CACHAR. 

 By E, C. Stuart Baker. 



Part I. 



f With 2 Plates. ) 

 (Read before tM Biimbay Natural History Society ow 5th Aprils 1892.) 



Zanthixus flavescens. 

 Blyth's Bulbul. 



Gates' "Avifauna of B. India," No. 287., Vol I, p. 275. id., B.B.B., 

 Vol. I., p. 193. Murray's '' Avifauna," Vol. II., p. 89. Hume, Cat. 

 No, 452 bis. 



Description. — Forehead and crown dark brown, the feathers edged 

 clive-yellow and sub-edged grey. Upper plumage olive-brown, tinged 

 flavescent on the rump. Wings olive-brown, edges of quill-fea- 

 thers olive-green. Tail olive-brown, shafts rather darker brown. 

 Lores black, short supercelium from base of upper mandible yellow- 

 ish white ; cheeks and ear-coverts greenish-grey ; chin pale grey > 

 throat, breast, and flanks grey, more or less suffused with yellow ; 

 centre of abdomen flavescent ; under tail-covei'ts bi'ight yellow. Bill 

 and legs black ; irides dark brown. 



