302 No.ITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



smaller crest and bill with a less- developed tail. Although exactly intermediate 

 between these two forms and, of course, grading into them on the boundaries of 

 its habitat, it yet ranges over a larger area than cither and is certainly entitled 

 to a geographical or subspecific name. 



Habitat. Central and South-Central Burma, South Chin HiUs, South Shan 

 States, and Northern Siam. 



Wing average, 160 mm. (147-170); tail, up to 435 mm. : bill 28-32 mm. 

 (52 bird^). 



(6) Dissemaras pumdiseus ijmndis. 



EdoUus grandis Cjould, P.Z.S. 1836. p. 5. 



Chibia malaharoides Hodg., Ind. Rev. i. p. 325. 1S*>T. Xcpal. 



EdoUus dentirostris A. Hay, apud Jerdon, Madr. Jmir. x. p. 121, Orissa. 



Tifpe Locality : Assam. 



The Assam bird is a very large form with a magnilicent crest, frequently so 

 long that it falls over the whole crown ; the racquet tail feathers are very long, 

 mth racquets sometimes over 88 mm. long ; the bill is big and powerful. 



Habitat. D. p. grandis is found over the whole of N.E. India, extending as 

 far south and west as Mussoorie, Sambalpur, Baipur, and the northern reaches 

 of the Godaveri River. East it extends through Assam, north and south of the 

 Brahmapootra Rivci', Northern Chin Hills, Northern Siian States, and Yunnan. 



Wing average, 108 mm. (155-1S2) ; tail, up to 560 mm. ; bill, 32-35 mm. 

 (44 birds). 



(7) Dissemurus paradiseus otiosns. 



Iiissemurus mal.nlmricus otiosus Richmond, Proc. U.S. .V«(. .!/««. xxv. p. 291 (1902). 

 EdoUus afl'ntifs BcMvan, Ibis, 1867. p. 323 (ex Tytlcr M.S.), Aiidamaiis. 



Type Luaility : Andamaus. 



A large bird with no crest, a long powerful biU, and a long tail with broad 

 full racquets about 70 mm. in length. 



Habitat. Confined to the Andamans. 



Wing average, 162 mm. (152-167) ; tail, up to 450 mm. ; bill, 29-34 mm. 

 averaging over 32 mm. (30 birds). 



Bea van's name affims is, as shown by Richmond, preoccupied by EdoUus 

 u/Jinis of Blyth {J.A.S.B. xi. p. 174. 1842). 



(8) Dissemi(riis puradiseiis nicobariensis subsp. nov. 



Type Locality : Nicobars. 



Types 6 ? Kondel, Nicobars, 14. iii.73; Hume Coll. British Mus. (W. 

 Davison). This bird chffers strikingly from otiosii.s in its much smaller bill, 

 wliich averages only about 28 mm. It is also a smaller bird with less- developed 

 racquets, these only running up to 54 mm. in length as well as being narrower 

 than they are in otiosus. 



Habitat. Confined to the Nicobais. 



Wing average, 149 mm. ; (146-153) ; tail, up to 425 mm. ; bill, 27-29 mm. 

 (4 birds). 



