PYCNONOTUS BARBATUS. 
(DUSKY BULBUL.) 
Turdus barbatus, Desfont. Mém. de l’Ac. Roy. des Sciences, p. 500, pl. xiii. (1787). 
Izos obscurus, Temm. Man. d’Orn. iv. p. 609 (1840). 
Haematornis lugubris, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 98. 
Ixos inornatus, Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 27. 
Izos obscurus (Temm.), Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. xlii. (1844). 
Pycnonotus obscurus (Temm.), G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 237 sss —49). 
Pycnonotus inornatus (Fras.), G. R. Gray, ut supra (1844-49). 
Izos ashanteus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 266 (1850). 
Pycnonotus ashanteus (Bp.), J. W. von Mill. J. fir Orn. 1855, p. 394. 
Ixos barbatus (Desf.), Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 7, sp. 216 (1856). 
Bou lég-lag, Moorish; Naranjero, Spanish. 
Figure notabiles. 
Desfont. /.c.; Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1871, pl. vii. fig. 3. 
$ ad. corpore supra umbrino-cinereo, capite saturatiore, loris et regione ad basin rostri nigricanti-umbrinis : 
mento et guld superiore saturaté fusco-umbrinis, hdc versus pectus pallidiore: pectore et hypochondriis 
pallidé fusco-cinereis: abdomine ceutrali, crisso subcaudalibusque albis: alis et caud& saturate fuscis : 
iride fuscé: rostro et pedibus nigris. 
2 ad. haud a mare distinguenda. 
Pull. adulto similis sed vix sordidior. 
Adult Male (Algeria). Upper parts dull brown, rather paler than in P. capensis; head darker than the rest 
of the upper parts, being dark umber-brown ; lores and space in front of the eye at the base of the bill 
blackish ; chin and upper throat dull dark brown, gradually fading into pale ashy brown on the breast 
and the rest of the underparts, except the centre of the abdomen, crissum, and under tail-coverts, 
which are pure white; wings and tail dull dark brown; iris dark brown; bill and feet black. Total 
length about 8 inches, culmen 0:7, wing 4:1, tail 4°2, tarsus 1-0. 
Female. Similar to the male. 
Young. Resembles the adult, but is a trifle duller. 
THE present species of Bulbul inhabits North-western Africa from Algeria and Morocco down 
the coast as far as the Gaboon. Temminck certainly stated that it had occurred in Southern 
Spain; and on his authority it has been by most authors included amongst those species which 
inhabit Europe proper; but more recent investigation has shown that Temminck must have been 
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