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be sound fruit. Owing to the mischief they thus do, they are not favourites, and consequently 
are more timid near Tangier than about Larache, where I shot some of them.” 
Found (as above mentioned) on the west coast of Africa as far down as the Gaboon, it has 
been obtained at Senegal and Lagos; and Captain Shelley has lent to me a nice series from 
Fantee, and one example from the Gaboon, which latter does not differ from specimens from 
Fantee. 
All the information I can glean respecting the habits of the present species is given above. 
I possess a single egg obtained in Algeria by Captain Loche, which in size is rather larger than 
the eggs of Pycnonotus xanthopygus, which it also resembles in colour and markings; but the 
latter are duller. It is dull white in colour, closely marked with purplish grey underlying shell- 
markings and red overlying surface-spots and marblings, and measures #2 by $3 inch in size. 
Specimens of the Dusky Bulbul from Tangier have the head darker than others from 
Algeria, and agree closer with examples from Fantee, which latter appear to run somewhat 
smaller than those from Algeria and Tangier; but a critical examination of the series in the 
collection of Captain Shelley shows that examples from Fantee vary in size from culmen 0-7, 
wing 3°6, tail 3:3, tarsus 0°85, up to the size of the specimen from Algeria above described, or 
even somewhat larger. According to Mr. R. B. Sharpe (P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 132) the Bulbul from 
the Gaboon is distinct from the present species, having the under tail-coverts tinged with yellow, 
and being darker in colour; and he consequently gave it the name of Pycnonotus gabonensis. 
However, the present species certainly occurs also at Gaboon, as a specimen from there in 
Captain Shelley’s collection does not in the least differ from examples from Fantee. In North- 
east Africa there is a species not unlike Pycnonotus barbatus, which, however, does not occur 
within the limits of the Palearctic Region. This species, Pycnonotus arsinoé (Licht.), inhabits 
North-east Africa, being found most frequently in Nubia and Abyssinia, but does not pass below 
the second cataract of the Nile. It differs from the present species in having the head and 
upper throat blackish, the upper parts rather paler, and the under tail-coverts and crissum pure 
white, and is smaller in size. 
The specimens figured and described are an adult male from Algeria, in my own collection, 
and a young bird in the collection of Canon Tristram. 
In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens :— 
E Mus. H. HE. Dresser. 
a,d,, c,d. Algeria (Fairmaire). 
E Mus. H. B. Tristram. 
a,d. Algeria, June 16th, 1856 (H. B. T.). 6b, juv. Algiers, 1856 (H. B. T.). 
E. Mus. Howard Saunders. 
a, 3,6. Tangier (Olcese). 
E Mus. G. EL. Shelley. 
a,9. Algeria (Verreaux). 6,3,c,?2. Tangier, March 13th, 1873 (G. E.S.). d,e. Accra, February 15th, 
1872 (G. E. S8.). jf. Fantee, January 30th, 1872 (G. #.S.). g. Fantee, March 7th, 1872 (G. E. S.). 
h. Gaboon (Ansell). 
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