22. OTOCOMPSA. 



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22. OTOCOMPSA. 



Otocompsa, Cabanis, Mus. Ilein. Th. i. p. 10!) (18,50). 



Type. 

 O. jocosa. 



Head of Otocompsa Icucogenys. 



Smige. Indian peninsula and Himalaya mountains, extending 

 eastwards into the Burmese and Tcnasserim hiUs and those of 

 Cochin China, recurring again on Kiua-Balu mountain in Borneo. 



Key to the Species, 



a. Under tail- coverts red, ■with a red ear-tuft. 



a'. Tail-feathers tipped with white jocosa, p. 157. 



h'. Tail-feathers uniform, and not tipped with 



white etneria, p. 159. 



b. Under tail-coverts yellow. 



c'. Ear-coverts white ; head hrown, streaked 

 with whity brown ; throat blackish 

 brown ; under siuface of body pale ashy, 



white on the abdomen leucogenys, p. ICO. 



(V. Ear-coverts black, like the head and 

 throat ; under sm-face yellow. 



a". Larger : throat black Jtaviventris, p. 161. 



h". Smaller : throat yellow mantis, p. 1G2. 



1. Otocompsa jocosa. 



Le petit Merle hupe de la Chine, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 255, pi. xxi. 



fig. 2. 

 Lanius jocosus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 138 (er Briss.). 

 Ixus monticolus, McClell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. IGO. 

 Ixos pyrrhotis, Hvdys. Icon. ined. in Brit. 3Ius., Passeres, pi. 204. 



figs. 1, 2, pi. 205. fig. 1 (no. 209); id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 



p. 84. 

 Ixos iocosus, Pears. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 640 ; Bj>. C'onsp. i. p. 265 ; 



Siriiih. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 370. 

 Pycnonotus jocosus, Blytfi, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 566, xv. p. 280 ; id. 



Cat. B. 3ius. As. Soc. p. 208; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 237 ; Horsf. ^■ 



Moore, Cat. B. 3Ius. E.I. Co. i. p. 238 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 271, 



no. 3960. 



