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Genus PINAROCICHLA. Sharpe, 1881. 



This genus contains a single species very closely allied to 

 Otocompsa but different in having the feathers of the back and 

 rump with rigid and spinous shafts. If the fingers are passed 

 along the back from the tail towards the head, the prickly character 

 of the feathers can easily be felt. 



The crest of Pinarocichla is shorter than it is in our Indian 

 species of Ottcompsa but not shorter than in the Siamese 

 Otocompsa flaviventris jolmsoni and very little shorter than in 

 O.fl. minor. 



(415) Pinarocichla eutilota. ; 

 THE CHESTED BBOWX BCLBLTL. 



Brachypus eutilotus Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn., iv, pi. u (1836) 



(Singapore). 

 Pinarocichla euptilosa. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 279. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Crown greyish brown, with blackish shaft-stripes; 

 lores, cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of neck paler, without stripes ; 

 back, rump and scapulars ochraceous olive, the feathers of the 



Fig. 79. Head of P. eutilota. 



rump banded with black showing up in places as black patches ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail ferruginous, the outer three pairs of 

 tail-feathers tipped with white ; wing-coverts and inner secondaries 

 brighter and more ochraceous than the back; primaries and outer 

 secondaries dark brown, the outer webs ochraceous ; the whole 

 lower plumage whitish, suffused with grey on the breast and with 

 yellow elsewhere. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris crimson in the male, wood-brown to 

 litharge-red in the female ; bill black ; legs and feet dark grey- or 

 plumbeous-brown to black (Hume $ Davlwn). 



Measurements. Total length about 225 to 230 mm. ; wing 84 

 to 99mm.; tail about 95mm.; tarsus about 18 to 19mm.; 

 culmen about 13mm. 



Distribution. Peninsular Burma and Siam to Sumatra, Java and 

 Borneo. 



Nidification. Unknown. 



