. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. iJ42 crossed -with broad bars of black, five in number on the latter, very distinct on the under surface of both, where the interspaces are ashy- white ; under surface of body creamy white, with broad longitudinal streaks of dark brown on the throat and breast, narrowing towards the lower breast, and absent on the under tail-coverts ; under wing- coverts coloured exactly like the breast, the greater ones ashy white, strongly barred with blackish ; cere bluish white ; bill nearly white, tip blackish ; feet pale lemon-yellow or white ;
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. iJ42 crossed -with broad bars of black, five in number on the latter, very distinct on the under surface of both, where the interspaces are ashy- white ; under surface of body creamy white, with broad longitudinal streaks of dark brown on the throat and breast, narrowing towards the lower breast, and absent on the under tail-coverts ; under wing- coverts coloured exactly like the breast, the greater ones ashy white, strongly barred with blackish ; cere bluish white ; bill nearly white, tip blackish ; feet pale lemon-yellow or white ; iris orange- yellow. Total length 22 inches, culmen ISo, wing 14-4, tail 11-5, tarsus 2-05, middle toe 1-4. Adult male. Very little smaller than the female. Total length 19-5 inches, wing 13-8, tail 11-3, tarsus 1-9. Hub. The same as that of the genus. a. d" ad. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 66. MACH^EHAMPHUS. „ Machjeramphus, Westerm. Bijd. tot d. Ihei'h. i. p. 29, pi. 12 (1848) M. aleinus. Striugon\-x, Chimey, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 618 M. n. Bill of Machcerhamphiis anderssoni. Range. Malacca ; Africa, Damara Land ; Madagascar. Kei/ to the Species. Abdomen brown ; crest very long alcimis, p. 342. h. Abdomen white ; crest smaller anderssoni, p. 343. 1. Machserhamphus aleinus. Machserhamphus aleinus, Westerm. Bijd. tot d. Dierk. i. p. 29, pi. 12 (1848) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. 1854, p. 535 : Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 135 (1855) ; Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 1(38, pi. 1. fig. 6 (1857) ; id. Mus. Femes, p. 7 (1862) ; Sha?-pe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 502. Adult (type of species). Everywhere black, with a chocolate- brown shade ; an ill-defined spot above and below the eye white; quills and tail also black, the shafts dull white underneath ; throat. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work
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