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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Genus CRINIGER

The genus Criniger may be known from all the other Bulbuls by the presence of a long pointed crest and numerous very long hairs springing from the nape and hind neck. The tails of all the Indian and Burmese species are, moreover, rufous, a character shared by few other Bulbuls.
In Criniger the bill is strong and about half the length of the head and the culmen is curved throughout; the rictal bristles are well developed. The wing is blunt; the tail short and rounded and the tarsus short but very strong. The plumage is very soft.
The earliest name for any form of Criniger is tephrogenys of Jardine and Selby and the description undoubtedly applies to one of the southern forms, though no locality is given. In the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 1 designated the type-locality as South "Tenasserim (vol. xxvii, p. 466, 1921). The female is a good deal smaller than the male.
Key to Subspecies.
A. Lower plumage yellow.
a. Chin and upper throat white; crest [p. 363.
greenish yellow ., C. tephrogenys flaveolus,
b. Chin, throat and upper breast white;
crest greyish C.t. burmanicus, p. 364.
B. Lower plumage darker and more ochraceous.
c. Wing under 105 mm.
a1. Chin and throat white; crest rufescent olive-brown ... C.t. tephrogenys, p. 362.
b1. Chin, throat and upper breast white;
crest olive-grey C. t. griseiceps, p. 365.
d. Wing over 110 mm C.t. grandis, p. 365.

BookTitle: 
The Fauna Of British India, Including Ceylon And Burma-birds(second Edition)
Reference: 
Baker, EC S (1922–1930) The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Second edition. vol.1 1922.
Title in Book: 
Genus CRINIGER
Book Author: 
Edward Charles Stuart Baker
Year: 
1922
Page No: 
366
M_ID: 
22196
M_SN: 
Alophoixus
Volume: 
Vol. 1
Term name: 
id: 
2839

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