1. COCCVSTES. 215 



Le Coiifou liupi (^ i'l collier, Month. Jlixt. Nat. Ois. v. p. ."ISS (1779). 



Collaicd Ciiilaiw, Lat/i. Gen. Sipi. i. pt. 2, p. 529 (1782). 



I.o Coucou a collier blMic, Lemill. Ois. cVAfi: v. pi. 213 (1806) ; 



Sundev. Krit. om Levaill. p. 47 (1858). 

 Cuciilus coUaris, Vicill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. viii. p. 299 (1817) ; 



Bomi. et Vicill. Enc. Moth. p. 1.3;i.3 (1823). 

 Ciiciilus cordmandolicus, <S'. Mull. Naturl. Gcsch. Land- oi T'ulheni-. 



p. 234, note (1839-44). 

 O.\ylo])lius coromandus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 272 (1840) ; Blyth, 



J. A. 8. Ben;/, xi. p. 920 (1842) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 404 (1847) ; 



Bhith, Cut. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 74 (1849) ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 102 



(1850); Lichf. Nomencl. Ar. Berol. p. 79 (1854); Motln/ <^ 



Dillw. Lahimn N. II. p. 55 (1855); Irby, Urn, 1801, p. 230; 



Srlnt. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 209. 

 Oxyloplm.s coromandus vel rubrarmus, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. 



Mus., Pa.^sercs, pi. .'545. fign. 1, 2 (ao. 611) ; id. in Grays Zoo'.. 



Misc. p. 85 (1844). 

 Coccystes coromandus, Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii 



p. 093 (1854); Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 459; Jerd. B. Ind. i. 



p. 341 (1862) ; Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 45 (1802) ; ScM. 



Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuciili, p. 43(1803); Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 304; 



Swinh. his, 1867, p. 227; Bulr/cr, Ihis, 1809, p. 109; Gray, 



Hand-l B. ii. p. 220, no. 906 (1870); Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, 



p^ 394 ; Iloldsio. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 432 ; Hume, Nests ^- Ei/r/s Ind. 



B. p. 138 (1873); Salrad. Vcc. Born. p. 67 (1874); Blyth ^■ 



Walden, B. Barm. p. 81 (1875) ; Hume, &tr. F. 1876, p. 82 ; 



Bri'iqgem. Ahhandl. nnt. J'cr. Bremen, v. p. 465 (1876) ; David ^• 



Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 71 (1877); Hume S,- Davis. Str. F. 1878, 



p. 102 ; Shurpc, Ibis, 1878, p. 414 ; Tweedd. P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 946 ; 



Lec/fie, B. Ceylon, p. 249 (1879); Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 89; 



Scu'lli/, t. c. p. 257 ; Wardlmv-Ramsay, App. Tweedd. Mem. p. 656 



(1881) ; Simson, Ibis, 1882, p. 87; Salrin, Cat. StricJcl. Co//, p. 437 



(1882) ; Miiller, J.f. O. 1882, p. 406 ; Blasius, J.f. 0. 1883, p. 155 ; 

 Oatcs, B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 117 (1883) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, 

 p. 406 ; Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mus. ix. p. 29 (1880) ; Vorderm. 

 Nat. Tijdschr. Ncderl. Lid. xlvi. p. 10 (1886); Norman, Ibis, 

 1888, p. 400; Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, p. 12. 



Adult male. Entire tipper half of the head black, strongly glossed 

 with blue on the crest ; across the back of the neck a clear white 

 collar ; back black, strongly glossed with greenish blue, and 

 passing into glossy olive-green on tlie scapulars and inner portion 

 of the wings ; remainder of the wings chestnut, with brown ends to 

 the c[uills ; tail glossy violet-black, most of the feathers, especially 

 the outer ones, partially tipped with white; throat ehestmit-buff ; 

 chest huffish white; flanks, abdomen, and thighs greyish ash, 

 passing into violet-black on the nnder tail-coverts ; under surface 

 of the wings chestnut, fading into hufl' towards the least coverts, 

 and into brown at the ends of the quills : " iris dark brown ; bill 

 black, with the pale basal portion of lower mandible light grey ; 

 legs, feet, and claws slaty blue " (J. Darlinfj). Total length 16 

 inches, culmen 1"1, wing 6-8, tail 10, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male, but smaller. 

 Total length 1-5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 6-1. tail 9, tarsus 1. 



