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F. cirrhntus (.^), Gmelin. 



Shah Baj, and SdM/, Hind. 

 Hab. India and Malay conntries : the crested variety found 

 chiefly in the peninsula of India. 



(Var. A, with rudimental crest, and becoming wholly of a 

 sooty-black with age. Extremely common in Lower Ben- 

 gal, occurring also in the Malay countries, and sparingly 

 it would seem in the Sub-Himalayan region, or at least its 

 S. E. portions. Very rarely the occipital crest is deve- 

 loped in this variety, sometimes to 3 in. in length). 



A. Adult male. B. Adult female. (Wholly sooty- 

 black, save the base of the remiges underneath, and the tail 

 underneath except towards its tip : irides brilliant yellow). 

 From the vicinity of Calcutta (1842-4). 



C. Female (similar to preceding) : from jNIalacca. R. W. 

 G. Frith, Esq. (1847). 



D. Another female (also similar, but retaining some 

 white on the throat and on one side of the fore-neck and 

 breast). Procured near Calcutta (1845). 



U. Male. F. Female. Middle-aged. (Upper-parts 

 brown ; the lower white, with a large blackish-brown drop 

 on each feather : a broad and conspicuous stripe down the 

 middle of the throat : head and neck fulvescent, streaked : 

 and tibial and tarsal plumes more or less distinctly barred 

 with fulvous). From near Calcutta (1842). 



G. Male (similar to last, but with crest nearly 3 in. 

 long). From near Calcutta (1840). 



H. I. J. It. Young (with uucler-parts either wholly 

 white, or slightly streaked). From near Calcutta (1841-5). 



(Var. B. With constantly — it would seem — a well 

 developed occipital crest, sometimes attaining to 5^ in. 

 long. This variety does not appear ever to assume the 

 wholly black plumage ; and the young diifcr in colouring 

 from the young of the preceding variety. Iidiabits the 

 peninsula of India generally and Ceylon, reaching north- 

 ward to the Sub-Himalayan region). 



L. Specimen from Midnapore district, with crest 5^ in. 

 long; described J. A. S. XIV, 174. Presented by Capt. 

 Pringle Shortrede (1844). 



31. Another (the finer of the two described in J. A. S. 

 XII, 306), with crest 4 in. From Central India. Pre- 

 sented by C. Fra.ser, Esq., C S. (1844). 



N. Young (crown and neck fulvous, partially dark-shafted, 

 with white margins to the coronal feathers and occipital 

 crest : under-parts white, with a few small light fulvous 

 spots on the breast, passing to nearly round spots below). 

 From the Eastern Ghats. Presented by T. C Jerdon, 

 Esq. (1844). 



