ORD. INSESSORES. 



FAM. MERULIDM 



SUB..FAM. BEACEYPODIN^. 

 GEN. BRACHYPODIUS—BL. 

 PLATE XXXI. 

 BRACHYPODIU S POIOZC E PH ALUS. 



WHITE-EYED BULBUL. 



S^'noa — Brachypus Poioicephalus. — Jerdon, Cat. No. 70. 



I only once procured this species of Bulbul in forest at the foot of the Persia pass lead- 

 ing from Malabar into Wynaad. — It was feeding in small flocks on the tops of high trees, and 

 I found had been eating berries. 



Lord A. Hay procured one specimen at the foot of the Coonoor pass, and Captain 

 Roberts of the 36th N. I. showed me a drawing of this bird, which he had procured on the 

 West coast. 



It is somewhat allied in colours to the Brachypus eutilotiis of Jardine and Selby, which 

 it further resembles in the copiousness of its rump feathers, and Mr. Blyth has classed them 

 in the same genus. 



Description. — Crown of head, occiput, and throat, bluish grey, forehead siskin green ; 

 back, wings, and lower plumage oil green, lighter towards the vent ; rump feathers light 

 yellowish green, broadly barred with black ; tail with the centre feathers greenish grey, 

 lateral feathers black at base terminated with grey ; under tail coverts light grey. Irides 

 bluish -white ; bill and legs greenish. 



Length 7 inches, wing 3, tail 2 tV tars. | inch, bill (at front) Aths. 



Mr. Blyth, in a paper in the Journal Asiatic Society for 1845, page 546, has reviewed 

 all the Indian Brachipodinae, and has formed the genus Brachipodius (p. 576) for this and 

 4 or 5 other species. 



