Bulbuh. 



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467. Otocompsa monticola. 



Ixos monticolus, M'Clelland, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 160 ; Ibis, 1867, p. 440. 



Khasias, Tenasserim provinces. Probably 0. jocosa, var. sinensis, J. 

 Anderson, from Bhamo. Barely separable from 0. jocosa of Bengal and 

 Northern India, which again only differs from 0. fascicaudata, Gould, of 

 South India, by having white spots on its rectrices. Another instance of 

 different local races or conspecies. Mason remarks that this is one of the 

 most common birds in the neighbourhood of Tavoy. 



[Rangoon, Tonghoo, Karen nee, Karen hills (W. 22.). The Bengal 

 bird must take the specific title of emeria, Lin., even if the Chinese race, 

 Lanius jocosus, Lin., is identical with it, as stated by Mr. Swinhoe, and 

 who is doubtless correct. Linnaeus described the Bengal Bulbul twice 

 over in the 12 th edition of the Sy sterna, once under the genus Lanius, 

 and again under Museicapa, but both times with the same specific title, 

 emeria."] 



*468. Pycnonotus hjsmoerhous (J. 462), 

 Tardus cafer, 6m., founded on Merle huppe du Gap de bonne esperance, P. E. 563, fig. 1. 

 Specimens from Arakan and South India appear to me to be undis- 

 tinguishable, although the larger and much blacker P. pygceus takes its 

 place in Lower Bengal. 



[Thayet Myo, Tonghoo, Eangoon (W. II.) . Eangoon examples more 

 properly fall under the race named pygceus by Hodgson. This appropriate 

 title, which had been adopted by Jerdon, Blyth, and other accurate authors, 

 was changed, through misprint or other error, in the Hand-List, "No. 3957, 

 to the inappropriate title of pygmceus. H. pusillus, Blyth, founded on the 

 South Indian bird, is a synonym of true P. hcemorrhous.] 





469. P. isriGRXPiLEUs. 

 P. nigropileus, nobis, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 472. 



Tenasserim provinces. Common. Another representative race of the 

 preceding, which again only differs from P. crocorrhous, Strickland, of Java, 

 in having the lower tail-coverts crimson .* 



[Tonghoo, Karen hills (W. R.) ; Moulmein, Amherst (2).).] 



* P. xanthorrhous, J. Anderson (P. A. S. B. 1869, p. 265; P. andersoni, Swinhoe), 

 is a species described from Yunan and from the Ichang gorge of the Upper Yang-tsze. 



