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CEINIGEE ICTEEICUS. 
while others were “thiekly freckled all over, most densely at the large end, with salmon-pink or pale pinkish 
brown,” showing that they arc subject to considerable variation in colour. 
Naturalists quoted by Mr. Hume speak of the nest being ''suspended by the outer rim to two branches,” 
or “ attached to twigs hy cobwebs,” and never placed in a fork. My experience (and I have no doubt about 
my identification) tends to show that it does build at times like other Bulbuls. The bottom of the nest was 
in the fork. 
Genus IXOS. 
Bill stouter, wider at the base, and less compressed at the tip than in Criniger. Wings 
shorter, less pointed, with the 5th and 6th quills subequal and longest. Tail not so broad and 
less square at the tip. Legs and feet stout. The toes strongly scaled ; lateral toes equal ; claws 
rather short. Nuchal hairs lengthened, but scanty. 
