. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Racket of Dissemurus hrachyphorus. D. affinis (fig. 9) is a small-crested form of the Malabar bird, the crest, such as it is, being full and the racket large. FW. Head of Disscimirus affinis. D. malaharicus of the 'Hand-list' must be called D. cristateUas, Blyth; for the former name, founded on Sonnerat"s utterly irrecog- nizable plate (Voy. Ind. ii. pi. cxi.), ought to be discarded, as there is no chance of the figure ever being referred with certainty to any species. The crest in this form is very close-set; but considerable variation
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Racket of Dissemurus hrachyphorus. D. affinis (fig. 9) is a small-crested form of the Malabar bird, the crest, such as it is, being full and the racket large. FW. Head of Disscimirus affinis. D. malaharicus of the 'Hand-list' must be called D. cristateUas, Blyth; for the former name, founded on Sonnerat"s utterly irrecog- nizable plate (Voy. Ind. ii. pi. cxi.), ought to be discarded, as there is no chance of the figure ever being referred with certainty to any species. The crest in this form is very close-set; but considerable variation appears to exist even in birds from different parts of Southern 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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