400 PYCNONOTID &. 
Habits. According to Davison this is a bird of open or culti- 
vated country. Its habits are like those of the genus Otocompsa, 
its note is whistled ‘kick pettigrew ” and its food consists princi- 
pally of small berries but also to some extent of insects. 
Genus SPIZIXOS Blyth, 1845. 
The genus Spizivus contains species and subspecies ranging 
from Assam to China. They differ from all other Bulbuls in their 
very curious Finch-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 with the Sibiine as suggested by 
Oates. 
Fig. 80.—Head of 8S. ¢. canifrons. 
In Spizivus 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. 
Tur FINCH-BILLED BULBUL. 
Spizivos canifrons Blyth, J.A.S. B., xiv, p. 571 (1845) (Khasia 
Hills); Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 280. 
Vernacular names. Aator-sit( Kachin); Daobulip-buku(Cachari). 
Description. Forehead running up in a point into the crown, 
erey ; lores, chin and cheeks mixed grey and black ; crown and 
round the eye black; ear-coverts grey, tinged with hair-brown on 
the upper parts ; nape and sides of neck grey; chin dark brownish 
erey : 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 with brown on the 
inner webs of the greater coverts : primaries and outer secondaries 
