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that he referred to Pycnonotus Jfavirictus, f Strickland) 

 altogether a different bird. Birds that frequent jungles, and 

 which are found in the mountain zone have been much passed 

 over hitherto in the low country, under the impression that 

 •they were strictly monticolous. Both this bird and Rubigula 

 Melanictera have nearly always the back of the neck destitute 

 ; of feathers. 



Rubigula Melanictera (Blyth). The Black headed 

 Bulbul. 



'This bird is Very numerous in the thick jungle of the inte^ 

 rior of this Province. It is entirely a denizen t)f the forest, 

 and goes about from tree to tree in parties of 5 or or more, 

 in number. The note is a mellow warble which they utter in 

 concert while feeding, sometimes in company with Crini- 

 <jer icterus, in the topmost branches of high trees. I append 

 here a description of the bird as it is not given in Jerdon: — ■- 

 Male, total length 6-5"; tail 2'8"; wing 3 1-20"; tarsus '7* ; 



bill to gape 13-20". Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet 

 blackish. Head and nape jet black ; upper surface, wing 

 coverts and tertiaries dark olive green; quills brown and 

 tail blackish brown, both edged with olive green ; the latter 

 tipped white, the colour increasing from the centre feather to 

 the outer one ; under surface bright yellow ; chest and flanks 

 shaded with the color of the upper surface. 



Copsychus Ceylonensis (Sclater). P, Z. S. 1861. 

 page 186. Copsychus saularis ? Linn, The Magpie Robin. 



It would appear from a note by Mr. Blyth in a paper on 

 the ornithology of Ceylon, Ibis July 1867, that the species 

 Ceylonensis is scarcely admissible, and that our bird is after 

 all the Saularis of India, the only distinction being, that the 

 females of the Island bird are darker on the back than those of 



