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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1846

1846

A specimen of Perris apivora is included and I find the species is distinct from P. cristata : the great variation of plumage is the same in both and the varieties correpond; but in P. apivora in addition to there not being the slightest tendency to the formation of an occipital crest the beak is conspicuously smaller and the toes are much shorter. [...] One is the dark brown with pale bead and nuchal plumes blackish forehead and throat and often a great white patch on the shoulder : the other has pale central stripes to the feathers ofr the back which are much broader on those of the neck and under-parts where they have merely dark lateral margins and the wing also is more or less spotted ; in the latter plumage the feathers of the back and [...] As compared with the Indian species that of Java has rather larger bill and feet ; the crown is darkecoloured passing to blackish or deeply infuscated on the occiput and median line of nape ; the wings are shorter measuring two inches and wren-eighths while in the Indian species they are three and one sixteenth ; and lastly there is a difference in the barring of the tail-feathers and [...] 15 in the Indian bird are more rounded or somewhat truncated with a slighk emargination at the tip of the shaft while in the Javanese bird they attenuate and are obtusely pointed ; the white bars also assume more the appearance of transverse bands in the Javanese species and of separated round spots in that of India ; while the outermost feather is in the former tipped wish white and the penul [...] It is rather smaller than G. chloroptes and readily distinguishable by the crimson of its whole occiput which is transversely separated from the dark green of the crown and forms a pointed crest behind which completely overhangs the silky yellow feathers of the nape : in G. chloropus this yellow nuchal crest is much more developed and the crimson is confined to the sides of the occiput the c
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Pages
87
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii The Secretary view
Notices and Descriptions of Various New or Little Known Species of Birds. By Ed. Blyth. Curator of the Asiatic Society’s Museum
1-54 The Secretary view
Note on the Geological Features of Zillah Behar. by Lieut. W. S. Sherwill B.N.I. Revenue Surveyor
55-59 The Secretary view
A Note on Some Hill Tribes on the Kuladyne River;—Arracan. by Lieut. T. Latter (67th N. I.) of the Arracan Local Battalion
60-78 The Secretary view

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