11. CHALCOCOCCTX. 289 



//. With narrow rufous edges to the 



(£uills, and more rufous on the 



under surface of thi> wings and 



outer pair of tail-feathers. 



c\ With scarcely any rufous shade 



on the throat jwcilurus, p. 290. 



d'. Tiiroat strongly wa-^iied with 



rufous 7-iiJicolliii, p. 300. 



b". Under wing-coverts uniforni white. 



(Young of preceding species.) 

 c". With no white on the upper wiug- 

 coverts. 

 c"'. AVith rufous edges to the primaries. . poeriluroirh's, p. 301. 

 d'". W'ith no rufous edges to the pri- 

 maries mtso>-eii><is, p. 301. 



d". With a white patch on the upper wing- 

 coverts cra.'i.nrostri'!, p. 302. 



1 . Chalcococcyx xanthorhynchus. 



C'uculus xanthorhvnchus, Hursf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 179 (1822) ; 



ill. Zool. Hes. Jam,])\. 59 (1824) ; T'li/. Mem. Raffl. p. 672 (1830); 



S. MM. Ver/i. Xat. Gese/t. Lctnd- 'en J'olk. p. 234 (1839-44) ; 



lil>/f//, J. A. S. Bern/, xi. p. 919 (1842) ; Schl. Mit.s. Pays-Bas, 



Ouculi, p. 32 (1864) {Ormj, Hnnd-l. B. ii. p. 219, no. 9040 (1870) ; 



Hharpe, Ilns, 1879, p. 244. 

 Lampromorpha amethystina, Viij. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 98. 

 Chrvsococcvx xanthorhvnchus, Blyth, J. A. >S. Benq. xi. p. 919 (1842), 



xii. p. 24o (1843); Bli,th, Cat. B. Mm. As. 'Soc. p. 73 (1849); 



Bp. Cunxp. i. p. 106 (18o0) ; Hor.'.-f. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. I. 



Co. ii. p. 706 (1806-08) : Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 209; Scdvad. Ucc. 



Borneo, p. 62 (1874); n'cild. I/,is, 1874, p. 137 ; Hume, St r. F. 



iii. p. 472 (1874) ; Bli/th ^- Wald. B. Burma, p. 80 (1875) ; Txceedd. 



Ibis, 1877, p. 287 ; Wardlaw Ranway, Ibia, 1877, p. 458; Hume, 



Str. F. vi. p. 506 (1878), viii. pp. 54, 89 (1879) ; S/iarjye, P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 327 ; Hume, Str. F. ix. p. 248 (1880) : Sharpe, P. Z. S. 



1881, p. 792: Oate.s, Handb. B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 114 (1883); 



Buttik. Xotes Lei/den Mus. 1886, p. 27; S/iarjie, ii/s, 1888, p. 198, 



1890, p. 9; Whitehead, t. c. p. 46. 

 Lampromorjiha xauthorh^Tichus, Bp. Con.y). Vol. Zygod. p. 7 (1854). 

 Chalcococcyx xanthorhvnchus, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 15 



(1802) : 'Hume, Str. F. ii. p. liil (1874), iii. p. 81 (1875); Hume 



^- Baris. Str. F. vi. pp. 1(>1, 506 (1878). 

 Chalcococcyx amethystinus, Wald. Tr. Z. S. ix. pp. 160, 250 (1875). 

 Chalcites xanthorhynchus, Gould, B. A.sia, vi. pi. 47 (1877). 

 Chrvsococcvx limborgi, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 3(56 ; id. Str. F. vii. 



p! 319 ( 1,'^78) ; Huvie, Str. F. viii. p. 89 (1879) ; Binyhatn, Str. F. 



ix. p. 168 (1880) ; Oates, Handb. B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 116 (1883). 



Adult male. Upper parts as well as the entire head and neck 

 uniform metallic violet ; quills brownish black, edged with the same 

 colour as the back ; tail above like the back, the outer pair of 

 feathers with three partial white bars and white tips, the next two 

 pairs with much smaller white ends, which in some specimens are 

 absent ; breast, under wing-covcrt.s, and under tail-coverts white, 

 with broad metallic bars varying from violet to greenish blue ; 



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