. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Racket of Bisscmiirus jjlafunis. Malaccan specimens are again intermediate, having a very small crest and racket, which makes them referable to D. brachyphorus, with which species I keep them, though the racket is much twisted, as in D. platurus. Figs. 5 & Head and racket of Dissemunis forirwms. D. formosus is included in the ' Hand-list' on the authority of a Bornean specimen received from Verreaux. It must be kept^with the Javan bird, on account of the crest (fig. 5), but the racket (fig. b) is very flat and large. It is a question, how
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Racket of Bisscmiirus jjlafunis. Malaccan specimens are again intermediate, having a very small crest and racket, which makes them referable to D. brachyphorus, with which species I keep them, though the racket is much twisted, as in D. platurus. Figs. 5 & Head and racket of Dissemunis forirwms. D. formosus is included in the ' Hand-list' on the authority of a Bornean specimen received from Verreaux. It must be kept^with the Javan bird, on account of the crest (fig. 5), but the racket (fig. b) is very flat and large. It is a question, however, whether this last-. 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 British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. [Birds]. London
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