Genus EUBIGULA. 
Bill short, stout, rather straight ; rictal bristles moderate. Wings short and rounded ; the 
4th and 5th quills equal and longest. Tail nearly even at the tip. Legs and feet small. Tarsus 
feathered just below the knee, as in the preceding genus ; toes short ; claws long and acute. 
A portion of the back of the neck bare, but overlaid by the occipital feathers. Nuchal 
hairs short. 
EUBIGTJLA MELANICTEEA. 
(THE BLACK-HEADED BULBUL.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
Muscicapa melanictera, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 941 (1788). 
JJJgitlima atricapilla, Vieill. N. Diet. i. p. 176 (1816). 
lora nigricapilla, Drapiez, Diet. Class, vi. p. 170 (1840). 
Eubigida aherrans, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1846, xv. p. 287. 
Pijcnonotus atricapilliis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 211 (1849) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 125. 
Pi/cnonotus nigricapillus, Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 123 (1852). 
Rubigula gularis, Kelaart, 1. c. 
Ruhigula melanictera, Walden, Ibis, 1866, p. 316 ; Blyth, ibid. 1867, p. 304 ; Legge, J. A. S. 
(Ceylon Br.) 1870-71, p. 44 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 452 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, 
p. 20 ; id. Str. Death. 1875, p. 368; id. Ibis, 1875, p. 396. 
Yellow-lreasted Flycatcher, Brown, 111. pi. 32 ; Le Cap negre, Le Vaill. pi. 140 ; Le Gohe- 
mouclie noir etjamie de Ceilan, St. Croix ; Black-capped Tanager, Latham. 
Ka-Jcurulla, Sinhalese in Western Province. 
cJ ad. supra saturate flavicauti-viridis, uropygio et supracaudalibus latius flavis : teetricibus alarum dorso coucoloi-ibus, 
majoribus et primariis brunoeis Isotioro flavo limbatis, secundariis tiorsi colore lavatis : rectricibus nio-ricauti- 
brunneis, versus basin olivasceutibus et olivaceo lavatis, omnibus (duabus mediis exceptis) albo terminatis, ex- 
terionbus latius apieatis : pileo baud cristate nuebaque nitide nigris : loris, facie laterali, genis et regione parotica 
uigns : corpore subtus toto Imtc flavo, lateribus vix olivascenti lavatis : subalaribus et axillaribus flavis, majoribus 
basaliter albis : remigibus infra, brunneis, intus versus basin albicanti marginatis ; rostro nigro : iiedibus nigri- 
cauti-olivaceis : iride sordidc rubra. 
Adult male and female. Length from 6-3 to 6-5 inches ; wing 2-7 to 2-9 ; tail 2-5 to 2-6 ; tarsus 0-6 ; mid toe and 
claw 0'58 ; hind toe and claw 0"48 ; bill to gape 0’75 to 0'8. Females are the smaller of the sexes. 
Male. Iris dull red; bill black; legs and feet blackish. 
Fetnale. Ms dark- hroivn ; legs and feet deep plumbeous or blackish blue. 
Head and face, down to the level of the lower mandible, glossy black ; lower part of hind neck, back, scapulars, upper tail- 
coverts, upper surface of tertials, and edges of quills dusky olivaceous green, palest on the rump, aiid with a 
brighter or yellowish hue on the outer W'cbs of the primaries ; the first primary and the tips and inner webs of 
all the other quills brown ; tail blackish browni, edged, principally near the base, with the hue of the back, and 
with a terminal white spot to all the feathers but the central pair, which are simply tipped with it ; chin, throat, 
low'er part of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts saffron-yellow ; the chest and flanks washed with olivaceous 
green ; under wing-coverts and flexure of the wing yellow. 
