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A male C. mendinus has the " iris scarlet ; bill blackish above, pale reddish below : 

 gape orauge ; i'eet ochrc-orauge, claws black." A large C. threnodes, also a male : 

 " Iris red-brown inwardly, paling outwardly ; eyelid bright ochreous ; feet ochreous, 

 claws blackish." 



70. Sui'niculus lugubris (Horsf.). 



?. ad. 201)0 to 30()U feet. "Iris dark brown ; feet very dark slaty blue; bill 

 black." Wing Vl>i mm. 



TO. Cuculus intermedius Vahl. 



S. Low uouutry. '• Iris ochreous yellow ; eyelids lemon ; maxilla black ; 

 mandible horn-colour with blackish tip ; feet ochreous, soles rich ochre, claw.s 

 darker." Wing 210. Rather long-winged, but undoubtedly C. intermedius. 



TT. Centropus javanicus (Dumont). 



An immature ?««fe, rather pale abote, but otherwise typical ; shot in low 



country. 



T>. Phoenicophaes (RMnococcyx) curvirostris (Shaw). 



Not rare in the low couutry. i . ■• Beak bright 3'ellowish green ; lower 

 mandible and base of commissure black ; iris bright ochreous ; space round eye 

 rich scarlet ; feet slaty blackish." E.Kactly like Jiivan specimens. 



T9. Palaeornis alexandri (L.). 



Specimens from the low country, i. " Iris pale yellow ; bill orange-red ; feet 

 greenish." 



«0. Glaucidium castanopterum (Horsf.). 



i, 2000 to 3000 feet. "Eye briglit yellow; bill greenish, yellowish at tip; 

 feet greenish yellow." 



Si. Phodilus badius (Horsf.). 



One female from the low country. It is lilve one from Malacca in the Triug 

 Museum, while one from Sikkim is very much larger. The bird is described from 

 Java. Doherty describes the feet as dirty brownish white, the iris as deep brown. 



82. Treron (Osmotreron) griseicauda Gray. 



Low country and uj) to 3000 feet. S ad. " Iris orange ; skiu round eye 

 yellow ; bill yellow, basally bluish green ; feet beet-red." ? ad. " Eye orange, 

 skin round it bluish green ; beak terminally pale yellow, basally dark liluish." 



h:5. Carpophaga williami sp. nov. 



Carpophaga similis specici C. lunTHalatn dictae, sed capite supra saturate 

 grisescente-vinaceo, collo pectoreque simimo concoloribus, gula vinacea. Al. ? 194, 

 i 207 mm. 



llah. Bali. 



