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D. jxtmdiseus and D. brachyphorus, having a small crest but a 

 tolerably large and very twisted racket (fig. 4). In the previously 

 mentioned birds the racket does not take more than a half turn ; but 

 in Javan specimens it is twisted over so as nearly to meet the op- 

 posite web. 



Fiff. 4. 



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 & 6. 



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- 



