1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 569 



lower parts of a lighter ash-colour than the back, the tibial feathers 

 and under tail-coverts pale yellow, and all but the middle tail-feathers 

 tipped with yellowish-white, increasing in quantity to the outermost : 

 bill and feet dark. Hab. Southern India. 



15. P. melanocephalus, (Gray), Hardwicke's ///. Ind. Zool. : Bra- 

 chypus plumifer, Gould, Proc, Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 137; Vangaflavi- 

 ventris, Tickell, J. A. S. II, 573. Himalaya, Assam, Sylhet, Tippe- 

 rah, and Arracan ; also Central India. 



All the above are in the Society's museum, with the exceptions of 

 P. crocorrhous, P. bimacutatus, and the somewhat dubious P. monti- 

 colus. Also a common Chinese species, the P. sinensis, (Lath.), founded 

 on le Gobe-mouche verddtre de la Chine of Sonnerat, and figured as 

 Turdus occipitalis, Tem., by MM. Eydoux and Gervais, in the 

 * Voyage de la Favorite'. Dr. Cantor procured this bird in Chusan, 

 and the Society's specimens are from Macao. That figured by the 

 French naturalists cited was obtained at Manilla. In general, how- 

 ever, the ear-coverts have a central whitish spot, instead of being 

 wholly blackish, as represented in the coloured figure adverted to. 

 Another common Chinese species, which is in the collection of Lord 

 Arthur Hay, is le Gobe-mouche a tete noire de la Chine of Sonnerat, 

 v. P. atricapillus, (Vieillot).* 



The following Malayan species are, I presume, to be added to those 

 already noticed. 



Ixos virescens, Tem. (pi c. 382, fig. 1), which would seem to be allied 

 to P. plumosus. 



I. chalcocephalus, Tem. (p. c. 453, fig. I). 



Lanius xanthogaster, Raffles, Lin. Tr. XIII, 309. This, however, 

 is more doubtful as a true Pycnonotus. 



Also two species from Southern India (in the Mysore district, bor- 

 dering the Neilgherries), which Mr. Jerdon procured, but unfortunately 



* Since writing the above, P. atricapillus has been received on loan from Lord A. 

 Hay. Its place in the series is between P. jocosus and P. leucotis, but with the 

 crimson lower tail-coverts of the first, though more brilliant. Length nearly nine 

 inches, of wing three and three-quarters, and tail four inches ; bill to gape seven-eighths, 

 and tarse the same. Colour of the upper-parts light brown, with greyish edgings to the 

 feathers, the upper tail-coverts and the entire under-parts brownish-albescent ; cap 

 glossy black, the feathers not much elongated ; chin, lores, and beneath the eyes, also 

 black; wings deep brown, the feathers margined paler; and tail dusky-black, gra- 

 dually deeper on the terminal half, the caudal feathers being all tipped with white : 

 bill black, and legs dusky-black. 



