PINAROCICHLA. 279 



Genus PINAROCICHLA, Sharpe, 1881. 



The single species which constitutes this genus is very similar in 

 general structure to Otocompsa. It differs in having a shorter c-ivst 

 and in having the back and rump covered with very dense pluinago. 

 The feathers of these parts, however, possess a peculiarity which has 

 not before been noticed. Their shafts are rigid and spinous, and 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 present 

 species clearly forms a link between the Brachypodina and the 

 genus CampopfMga among the Laniidso. 



This J3ul bul appears to b? similar to Otocompsa in habits. 



291. Pinarocichla euptilosa. The Crested Broivn Bulbul. 



Brachypus eutilotus, Jard. $ Selly, 111. Orn. iv, pi. iii (? 1836). 

 Brachypus entilotus (/. $ S.), apud Blyth, Cat. p. 339. 

 Brachypodius tristis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 576 (1845). 

 Microtarsus canton, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 279 ; Horsf. # M. Cat. 



i, p. 409. 

 Criniger tristis (Blyth), Blytli, Ibis, 1865, p. 47; Hume $ Dav. S. F. 



vi, p. 303; Hume, Cat. no. 451 quint. 



Euptilosus euptilosus (J. $ S.), Hume, S. F. viii, pp. 62, 162. 

 Pinarocichla euptilosa (J. $ S.}, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 62 ; Oates, 



B. B. i, p. 180. 



Fig. 88. Head of P. euptilosa. 



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

 lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of the neck paler, with no stripes ; 

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

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

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

 feathers of the latter tipped with white ; wing-coverts and tertiaries 

 ochraceous, brighter than the back ; primaries and secondaries 

 dark brown, the outer webs ochraceous ; the whole lower plumage 

 whitish, suffused with grey on the breast and with yellow else- 

 where. 



The legs and feet vary from dark grey-brown, or very dark 

 plumbeous brown, to black ; the bill black ; iris in the male crim- 

 son, in the female varying from wood-brown to litharge re 

 <J* Davison). 



