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of 7 inches. These birds are frugivorous. In the stomachs of 

 many the fruits of the Bergera Kcenigi and Uvaria undulata 

 only were found. The difference in the plumage of the sexes 

 is very remarkable. The female is the larger bird. The tongue 

 of this bird is exactly that of the Cue. canorus. 



Genus Cuculus, Auct. 



128. Cuculus canorus, Linn. Common Cuckoo, Lath. 



Irides yellow. Length 14 T V inches, inclusive of tail of 6 fa inches. 

 Rare in Dukhun. 



129. Cuculus fugax, Horsf. Bychan Cuckoo, Lath. 



Irides bright yellow. Length 13 fa inches, inclusive of tail of 6 

 inches. Tongue as in 127. This bird has so much the aspect 

 of a Hawk that Colonel Sykes passed it for one, until its note 

 of koeel, koeel, exactly resembling that of Eudynamys orientalis, 

 recalled him to the tree on which it was seated, and he shot 

 the bird. 



Genus Centropus, 111. Coucal. 



130. Centropus Philippensis, Cuv. Coucou des Philippines, Buff. 



Chestnut-winged Coucal, Lath. Malabar Pheasant of Eu- 

 ropeans. 

 Irides rich lake. Length 19| inches, inclusive of tail of 11^ inches. 

 This is a very useful bird, as Colonel Sykes found a snake eight 

 inches long, centipedes, noxious insects, and lizards in the 

 stomach. In the stomach and oesophagus of one bird a lizard 

 thirteen inches long was found. 



Tribus Tenuirostres, Cuv. 

 Fam. Meliphagidce , Vigors. — Genus Chloropsis, Jard. & Selb. 



131. Chloropsis aurifrons, Jard. & Selby? 



Fam. Cinnyrida, Vigors.— Genus Cinnyris, Cuv. Sun-bird* 



132. Cinnyris lepida. Certhia lepida, Sparrm. Nectarinia lepida, 



Temm. 

 Irides red brown. Length 4 fa inches, inclusive of tail of \fa 

 inch. Female ashy brown above ; light yellow below. Com- 

 mon in Dukhun. Feed on small insects ; also suck honey. 



133. Cinnyris currucaria. Certhia currucaria, Linn. Grimpereau 



gris des Philippines, PI. Enl. 576. f. 2. 



This has been considered a young bird ; but Colonel Sykes can 



venture to affirm, from a long observation of its habits in his 



garden at Poona, that it is a species. Irides bright lake. 



Length 4tfa inches, inclusive of tail of 1 -fa inch. A spider, a 



Cicada, and minute Coleopterous insects were found in the 



stomach of many birds of this species. They also hover before 



flowers, and suck the honey while on the wing, like the Cinn. 



lepida. 



13L Cinnyris Vigorsii. Cinn. collo supra, nucha, ptilis, scapula- 



ribusque intense sanguineis, collo irifra pectoreque coccineo- 



sanguineis ; strigd utrinque menlali sub rictu ad pectus txten- 



