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Plate 15. Cassell's Book of Birds
THE PURPLE CRESTED CORYTHAIX ____ Corythaix macrorhynchus
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CASSELL'S
BOOK OF BIRDS.
FROM THE TEXT OF DR. BREHM.
BY
THOMAS RYMER JONES, F.R.S.,
PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
WITH UPWARDS OF
Four Hundred Engravings, and a Series of Coloured Plates.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN;
AND NEW YORK.