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lost the specimens before he took a description of them. Coloured draw- 

 ings of them, however, were taken by a native painter in Mr. Elliot's 

 service, and from these Mr. Jerdon drew up the following notices. 

 Vide * Madras Journal', No. XXX, p. 168. They were about six and a 

 half or seven inches in length, the second being rather the smaller. 



" Yellow-eared Bulboul. Above yellowish-green, beneath yellow; 

 ocular region black ; a plume of soft loose feathers over the ear tipped 

 with yellow. • 



" White-eared Bulboul. Above light green, beneath greenish-yellow ; 

 head, neck, and breast, dusky grey ; ear-spot white." 



Lastly, as a very aberrant species, I shall provisionally refer to this 

 genus the bird considered by Mr. Jerdon to be the Turdus indicus., 

 Gm., and ranged by him in the same division with Pycnonotus fiavi- 

 7 ictus; but which Mr. Strickland thinks is considerably too small for 

 Gmelin's indicus, and has therefore given it a new name, describing it 

 as Criniger? ictericus, An. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1844, p. 411. The 

 only specimen in the Society's collection, and which was presented 

 by Mr. Jerdon, accords in its dimensions with those given by Mr. 

 Strickland ; but Mr. Jerdon gives the length as from seven and a half 

 to eight inches, wing four inches, and tail three and a half, which last 

 admeasurement only, holds true in the Society's specimen : and if the 

 species ever attains those dimensions, I think there can be no objec- 

 tion to identifying it as the indicus of Gmelin.* 



Alcurus striatus, (Blyth) Hodgson, J. A. S. XI, 184. This differs 

 little from Pycnonotus in form of bill, but its large size and thick 

 heavy body ally it to Criniger (v. Tricophorus), in which genus I ori- 

 ginally placed it, while Mr. Hodgson first assigned it to Pycnonotus. 

 It does not, however, range well with any other species known to me, 

 and at my recommendation Mr. Hodgson applied the name Alcurus to 

 it, which I here adopt. 



Genus Criniger (subsequently Tricophorus), Temminck. 



I. Cr. ochrocephalus, (Gmelin) : Tricophorus crispiceps, nobis, J. A. 

 S. XI, 204. Malay countries generally, and the Tenasserim provinces. 

 It is a favorite cage bird with the Malays. 



* It is remarkable that a common African Bulboul fPycn. chrysorrhoeus ) has 

 recently turned up in Ireland. Vide An. and Mag. N. H. 1845, p. 3U8 : the whole 

 group of Bulbouls being, otherwise, extra-European, and there is nothing approaching 

 to the form in all America. Neither do I remember a single Bulboul genus in 

 Australia. 



