Howard Brown (Halifax Bank) he left the company. In 2017, Howard made a cameo return to the world of advertising in an advert for Hotels.com. Howard Brown (Halifax Bank) Howard Brown (born c. 1966) is a former customer services representative and sales ambassador for HBOS plc, which owned both Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank (previously the Halifax Building Society) in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his appearances in Halifax/HBOS television advertisements, often singing and dancing. He was born in Sheldon, Birmingham, and is of Barbadian descent. Brown became the star of the HBOS Marketing Campaign in 2000, which resulted in
Rufous-fronted babbler but is now considered as conspecific with to rufous-fronted babbler. Rufous-fronted babbler The rufous-fronted babbler ("Stachyridopsis rufifrons") is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in moist lowland forests, grass or bamboo up to 2,100 m altitude. This 12 cm long babbler has a rufous crown, grey supercilium, brown upperparts and pale buff underparts. the juvenile has a paler crown and underparts. The song is a piping "tuh tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh", and the alarm call is a rolled "wirrri". An extirpated endemic Thailand form