PYCNONOTUS.
Brown birds about 8" long, with some hair-like shafts on hind head; sexes alike; gregarious except in breeding season; nest in hushes or low trees; eggs greyish or pinkish white marbled and spotted with red or reddish brown surface spots and purplish grey shell markings.
Pycnonotus barbatus barbatus (Desfontaines).
Dull brown above, darker on head and throat ; beneath dull white, under tail coverts white, often (especially in e) tinged yellow. Bill, legs and feet black. Wing 6 104-107, 93-96.
Tarsus 23-24. Culmcn 21-23 (H.).
Resident.—Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis, north of Atlas Mountains. Of very doubtful occurrence in S. Spain.
P. barbatus arsinoe (Lichtenstein). Head darker and upper parts paler ; behind ear coverts a small white spot ; under tail coverts white. Smaller. Wing 87-95 (H.).
Resident. — Middle and Upper Egypt ; of sporadic oc currence near Cairo (Nicoll).