This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...in the length--: (1 and 34 inches--is hardly of any account, if we remember that the measurements are taken from a mounted specimen. quotes neither Ph. pelagicus Pall, nor Ph. bicristatus Pall, among the synonyms of his Ph. vMaceus. Swinhoe, in 1874 (Ibis, p. 164), clearly pointed out the difference between the two ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...in the length--: (1 and 34 inches--is hardly of any account, if we remember that the measurements are taken from a mounted specimen. quotes neither Ph. pelagicus Pall, nor Ph. bicristatus Pall, among the synonyms of his Ph. vMaceus. Swinhoe, in 1874 (Ibis, p. 164), clearly pointed out the difference between the two forms, and was followejd by all later writers on Japanese ornithology. Professor Baird, in. 1869 (Tr. Chicag. Acad., I, 1869, p. 321), correctly kept the two species separate, retaining for the one Pallas's name Mcristatus, while applying Gmelin's name violaceus to pelagicus Pall., and herein he has been followed by all later American authors without exception. The only modern ornithologist, of any consequence, who has confounded the two species is evidently Mr. Taczanowski himself, quoting, as he has done, pelagicus Pall, as a synonym of bicristatus Pall, (see Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 41). Mr. Taczanowski then proceeds to give a comparative table of the distinctive characters of the breeding males of the two species; but, although generally correct, he falls into some errors in describing the colors of the naked parts. In utile (=bicristatus) the naked skin of the face is not "d'un rouge minium," but bright reddish orange, while the "peau nue sur la naissance de la mandibule infeieure, an bordde la machoire, et de la gorge," is not "noiratre," but beautiful blue. The difference in color of the naked parts is truthfully represented in the colored drawings, pi. viii, figs. 1 and 2, made by me from the fresh specimens less than an hour after they were killed. The drawings also represent the difference in the coloration of the iris in the two species. It is not only in the coloration of the naked parts of the fa...
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