. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . est. Nidification and Habits. Nothing recoi-ded. ;3i)9 Genus PINAROCICHLA Sharpe, 1881. This genus contains a single species very closely allied toOtocompsa but different in having the leathers of the back andrump with rigid and spinous shafts. If the fingers are passedalong the back from tlie tail towards the head, the prickly characterof the feathers can easily be felt. The crest of FinaroctchJa is shorter than it is in our Indianspecies of Otecompsa but not shorter than in the SiameseOtocompsa Jiaviventris johnsoni an
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . est. Nidification and Habits. Nothing recoi-ded. ;3i)9 Genus PINAROCICHLA Sharpe, 1881. This genus contains a single species very closely allied toOtocompsa but different in having the leathers of the back andrump with rigid and spinous shafts. If the fingers are passedalong the back from tlie tail towards the head, the prickly characterof the feathers can easily be felt. The crest of FinaroctchJa is shorter than it is in our Indianspecies of Otecompsa but not shorter than in the SiameseOtocompsa Jiaviventris johnsoni and very little shorter than minor. (415) Pinarocichla eutilota. The CuESTEn Beown Bulbul. Bracliypiis eutilotus Javd. k, Selby, HI. Orn., iv, pi. ii (1836) (Singapore).Pinarocichld eiiptilosa. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 279. Vern?.ciilar 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. cuiilota. ruuip banded with black showing up iu places as black patches ;upper tail-coverts and tail ferruginous, the outer three pairs oftail-feathers tipped with white; wing-coverts and inner secondariesbrighter and more ochraceous than the back; primaries and outersecondaries diirk brown, the outer webs ochraceous ; the wholelower plumage whitish, suffused with grey on the breast and withvellow elsewhere. Colours of soft parts. Iris crimson in the male, wood-brown tolitharge-red in the female; bill black; legs and feet dark grey- orplumbeous-hrown to black {Hume tf Davison). Measurements. Total length about 225 to 230 mm.; wing 84to 99 mm.; tail about 95 ram. ; tarsus about 18 to 19 mm.;culmen about 13 mm. Distribution. Peninsular Burma and Siam to Sumatra, Java andBorneo. Nidification. Unknown. ^00 PYCXt) Habits. According to Davison this is a bird of open or culti-vated country. Its habits are hk
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