. Birds. Birds. 280 CKATEEOPODID^. Length about 9; tail 3-8; wing 3-8; tarsus -75; bill from gape "8, IHstrilmtion. The extreme southern part of Tenasserim. This bird is found throughout the Malay peninsula and in Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. Genus SPIZIXUS, Blyth, 1845, The genus Sjaiziams contains three birds, one of which is found in the hills of Assam and the others in China. This genus differs remarkably from all the other genera of Bulbuls in the shape of the bill, which is finch-Ukej and in having the nostrils partially concealed by overhanging plumelets. Little is known of the habit
. Birds. Birds. 280 CKATEEOPODID^. Length about 9; tail 3-8; wing 3-8; tarsus -75; bill from gape "8, IHstrilmtion. The extreme southern part of Tenasserim. This bird is found throughout the Malay peninsula and in Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. Genus SPIZIXUS, Blyth, 1845, The genus Sjaiziams contains three birds, one of which is found in the hills of Assam and the others in China. This genus differs remarkably from all the other genera of Bulbuls in the shape of the bill, which is finch-Ukej and in having the nostrils partially concealed by overhanging plumelets. Little is known of the habits of this genus, and its position is very uncertain. For the present I follow others in placing it among the Bulbuls. Its position will probably be found hereafter to be among the Sibiince. In Spizioeus the crest is thick, long and 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. 292. Spizixus canifrons. Tlie Fineh-hllled Bulhul. Spizixos canifrons, Myth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 671 (1845) ; id. Cat. ; Sorsf. ^ M. Cat. i, p. 251; B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 106; xliii, pt. ii, p. 179; Blyth, Ibis, 1872, p. 90; Sume, 8. F. viijp. 386; id. Cat. no. 453 bis; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 172; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 180; Oates in Hume's N. ^ E. 2nd ed. i, p. Fig. 89.—Head of 8. canifrons. Coloration. Forehead and front part of the crown ashy grey; remainder of crown, lores, and round the eye black; cheeks and point of the chin blackish, the feathers with greyish-white tips; ear-cOverts pale brown; sides of the neck, meeting narrowly behind the nape, grey streaked slightly with blackish; throat very dark brown, shading ofE into ashy brown; upper plumage and wing- coverts green; wings daj-k brown, the outer webs greenish yellow;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images tha
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