. Birds. Birds. 400 Pl' Habits. According to Davison this is a bird of open or culti- vated country. Its habits are h'ke 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 SjnzLvus contains species and subspecies ranging from Assam to China. They differ from all otlier Bulbuls in their very curious Einch-like bill and in liaving the nostrils partially concealed by ov^erhanging plumelets. It is a typical Bulbul in habits, nidification
. Birds. Birds. 400 Pl' Habits. According to Davison this is a bird of open or culti- vated country. Its habits are h'ke 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 SjnzLvus contains species and subspecies ranging from Assam to China. They differ from all otlier Bulbuls in their very curious Einch-like bill and in liaving the nostrils partially concealed by ov^erhanging plumelets. It is a typical Bulbul in habits, nidification and voice and does not seem to have any conufxion with the Sthiina- as suggested by Fig. 80.—Head of S. c. canifrans. In Splzixus 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. -f (416) Spizixus canifrons canifrons. The Fixch-billed Bclbul. Spizixos canifrons Blvth, J. A. S. B., xiv, p. 571 (1845) (Khasia Hills); Blaiif. & Gates, i, p. 280. Vernacular names. 7i.''rt<o/--5/<(Kachin); Daohurip-huhu{C2ic\\^v\). Description. Forehead running up in a point into the crown, o-fev; lores, chin and cheeks mixed grey and black ; crown and round the eye black; ear-co\erts grey, tinged with hair-brown on the upper parts ; nape and sides of neck grey ; chin dark brownish (^rev : 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 w ebs of the greater coverts : primaries and outer secondaries. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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