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Habits. According to Davison this is a bird of open or culti- 

 vated country. Its habits are hke those of the genus Otocompsa, 

 its note is whistled "kick pettigrew '' and its food consists princi- 

 pally of small berries but also to some exteiit of insects. 



Genus SPIZIXUS Blyth, 1845. 



The genus Sjnzixus contains species and subspecies ranging 

 from Assam to China. They ditier from all other Bulbuls in their 

 very curious rinch-like bill and in having the nostrils partially 

 concealed by overhanging plumelets. 



It is a typical Bulbul in habits, nidification and voice and does 

 not seem to have any connexion \vith the Sihiimt as suggested by 

 Gates. 





Fig. 80. — Head of H. c. canifrons. 



In Spizlxus the crest is thick and long but not much pointed. 

 The bill is very short and deep, the culmen being gently curved 

 throughout ; the edges of the mandibles are slightly sinuated and 

 notched near the tips. The tail is perfectly square and the tarsus 

 short and weak. 



The crest as shown in the woodcut is too bushy and not 

 sufficiently pointed. 



(416) Spizixus canifrons canifrons. 

 The Eixch-billeb Bulbul. 



Spizixos canifrons Blvtli, J.A. S. B., xiv, p. 571 (1845) (Khasia 

 Hills) ; Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 280. 



Vernacular names. Katorsit(Kn.ch.m); Daoburqi-li(l-u{Cad\an). 



Description. Forehead running up in a point into the crown, 

 o-rev : lores, chin and cheeks mixed grey and black ; crown and 

 rouiul the eye black ; ear-coverts grey, tinged with liair-brown on 

 the upper parts : nape and sides of neck grey ; chi)i dark brownish 

 <rrev : whole upper plumage bright green tinged with olive, lightest 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts, darkest on the scapulars and 

 upper back ; wing-coverts the same, tinged ^ith brown on the 

 inner webs of the greater coverts : primaries and outer secondaries 



