292 CtTCTJLID^. 



Lamprococcyx maculatus, TVald. Ibis, 1869, p. 334; Holdswortk, 

 P. Z. S. 1872, p. 432 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. pp. 161, 602 (1878) ; 

 Salvacl. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. p. 681 (1887). 



Cuculus schomburgln, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 219, no. 9045. 



Cuculus smaragdiuus, Gray, I. c. no. 9060. 



Chalcococcjx smaragdinus, Hume ^ Davis. Str. F. i. p. 422 (1873). 



Chrysococcyx maculatus, Blyth Sf- Wald. B. Burma, p. 80 (1875) ; 

 Walcl. Ibis, 1876, p. 345 ; WurdlaiD Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 458 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. pp. 89, 155 (1879); Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 167 

 (1880) ; Hume, t. c. p. 248 ; Oates, Handb. B. Br. Burm. ii. 

 p. 113 (1883) ; BiUtik. Notes Lei/den Mus. 1886, p. 26. 



Chalcites hodgsoni, Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. 46 (1877). 



Cuculus maculatus, Leygp, B. Ceylon, p. 238 (1880). 



Adult male. .4bove metallic green, mottled with copper and with 

 a bluish shade at the ends of the quills ; outer tail-feathers with 

 three broad partial bands and the ends white, the next pair with 

 narrower white tips ; entire head and throat metallic green like the 

 upper parts ; breast alternately barred with white and metallic 

 coppery green ; under tail-coverts greener, with narrower white 

 bands ; under wing-coverts barred with metallic green and white, 

 and with a dusky patch next to the quills ; under surface of the 

 quills dusky brown, with a white patch on the inner web of most of 

 them, forming a band on the under surface of the wing : bill yellow, 

 tipped with black ; irides reddish brown ; legs reddish brown. 

 Total length 6-8 inches, culraen 0-6, wing 4"5, tail 3, tarsus O'G. 



Adult female. Crown and back of the neck rufous, mottled about 

 the forehead with zigzag bars of dark brown and white; back, wings, 

 and tail metallic green, much shaded with copper, the edges of the 

 quills washed with the same shades ; two centre tail-feathers metallic 

 green, ending in a broad baud of fiery copper, the next pair metallic 

 with four or five rufous triangular patches on their outer webs 

 extending to the shafts of the feathers ; the remainder of the tail- 

 feathers are mostly rufous barred with metallic green, the two outer 

 pairs tipped with white and the outermost one also broadly barred 

 with white on the outer web ; under surface, including the wing- 

 coverts, alternately barred with white and copper ; the pale portion 

 of the quills partially shaded with rufous. 



Young male. Differs from the fuU-plumaged male in having the 

 throat barred like the breast and in often having the sides of the 

 head and front of the crown barred with white. They are distin- 

 guished from the female by the absence of rufous on the head, 

 throat, wings, tail. 



Hah. From Naini Tal to the Eastern Himalaya, through the 

 Burmese countries and the Malayan Peninsula to Sumatra. 



a. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould Coll. 



6. Ad.; e, f/. Imm.sk. Naini Tal, May, Oct. Hume Coll. 



e. Imm. sk. Kaladoongi, Dhoon, Sept. 29. Hume Coll. 



f,ff.A.d..; h,i,k. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



Imm. sk. 



I, m. Ad.; n. Imm. Native Sikhim, April, May, Aug. Hume Coll. 



sk. (Z. Mandelli). 



