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but having no hair-like stems intermixed : chin, a streak from the nos- 

 tril to near the eye, the fore -part of the wings underneath, and the lower 

 tail-coverts, bright yellow ; a tinge of the same on the throat, fore- 

 neck, and belly, the feathers of the fore-neck being each tipped with a 

 black spot : breast and ear-coverts whitish, tipped and laterally mar- 

 gined with greyish-black, the tips becoming obsolete on the belly : tail 

 dusky, having its exterior webs greenish to near the end, and tinged 

 with yellow underneath ; the two outermost rectrices, and the third 

 to a less extent, tipped chiefly on the inner vane with yellowish white. 

 Bill blackish, and legs dusky-brown. 



This species would seem to be allied to Tr. flaveolus, Gould (P. Z. S. 

 1836, 6), which is also from the Himalaya, and was met with by Dr. 

 McClelland in Assam. " TV. cristatus, supra olivaceo-flavescens ; genis 

 guttureque sordide albis. Long, tot, 8 unc ; rostri, 6 ; alee, 4 ; caudce, 3J ; 

 tarsi, f ; Rostrum pedesque corneo-hrunnei. The crest," it is added, 

 " consists of elongated feathers, intermingled with the hairy bristles 

 usual in the genus." The same species is thus described by Dr. 

 McClelland. " Length 8 inches. Colour yellowish-green above, with a 

 tinge of brown on the wings and tail, beneath bright yellow. : crested 

 with narrow feathers, becoming progressively longer from the nostrils 

 to the crown : bill strong, compressed, and slightly hooked ; cheeks 

 and nape scantily covered with feathers." (P. Z. S. 1839, 158). 



Mr. Jerdon adds to the Indian species of this genus a bird which 

 he conceives to be the Turdus Indicus of the old authors, and which 

 he briefly describes as follows, by the appellation of Tr. Indicus, remarking 

 that the TV. flaveolus, Gould, appears to differ only in being crested. 

 " Length 1\ to 8 inches, wing 4 inches, tail 3^ inches, tarsus rather 



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more than i^ths. Above olive green ; eye- streak (extending to the fore- 

 head), and beneath, yellow ; bill and legs black ; irides blood-red. This 

 bird frequents only thick and lofty jungle on the West Coast, being 

 found occasionally as high as 5000 feet. It lives in small flocks, flying 

 from tree to tree, and keeping up a continual and pleasing Bulbul-like 

 warble. In all the specimens I have examined, I have found fruit only 

 in its stomach ; but from the strong bristles at the base of the bill, 

 I suppose it may, at certain seasons, partake of insects. The same 

 gentleman assigns to this genus, at least provisionally, the Ixos virescens, 

 Tem., and a typical species exists in the Javanese Turdus gularis, Hors- 



