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13. Centropus rectunguis. 



Centvopu8 rectunguis, Strickl. P. Z. S. 184G, p. 104 ; Bti/fJi, Cat. B 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 321 (1849) ; Sfricld. Ann. ^- Mag. N. II. xix. 



p. 134 (ISoO) ; Schl. Mks. Pnijs-Bas, Cuculi, p. 67 (pt., 18C4) ; 



Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 213, no. 8058 (1870) ; Snelleman,in Veth's 



Midden Sumatra, Voc/. p. 34 (1884). 

 Centrococcyx rectunguis, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Ilein. iv. p. 114 (1862) ; 



Hume, Sfr. F. xiii. p. 55 (1879) ; Bilttikofer, Notex Leiiden Mm, 



1886, p. 32. 



Adult. Upper back and wings chestnut, with the under wing- 

 coverts black ; remainder of the plumage black, brightly glossed with 

 green on the head, back, and lower breast and with bhie on the 

 neck, chest, and tail: "bill and legs black; iris red" (Davison). 

 Total length 14-6 inches, culmen 1-65, wing 6, tail 7'5, tarsus 1'7. 



Immature. Differs from the adult in having the head and neck 

 brown ; the upper surface darker, consisting of rufous-brown and 

 black bars, and the under surface paler, being much barred with 

 buff and having stiff fulvous shaft-stripes ; a few narrow black bars 

 crossing some of the wing-feathers ; lower chest and abdomen 

 greenish black, mottled with narrow black bars; upper mandible 

 dark horn-colour, passing into yellowish buff on the lower man- 

 dible. Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 6, tail 8-5, 

 tarsus 1*9. 



Hah. The Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, 



a. Ad. sk. Penaug (i?. SwinJioe). Seebohm Coll. 



h, c. Ad. ; d. Juv. sk. Malacca. Seebohm Coll. 



e,f. Ad.; r/, //. Juv. Malacca (Dr. Maiiiffay). Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. 



/, I: Ad. : /. Imni. sk. Malacca, .July ( TV. Davi- Hume Coll. 



son). 



m. Ad. sk. Sarawak {H. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



14. Centropus sinensis. 



Polophilus sinensis, StepJi. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 51 (1815). 



Centropus bubutus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. S'oc. xiii. p. 189 (1821) ; id. 



Zool. Eeitearch. Java, pi. 60 (1824) ; Bp. Consp, Vol. Zijyod. p. 5 



(1854). 

 Chestnut Concal, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iii. p. 243, pi. 54 (1822j. 

 Centropus philippeusis, var. javanica, Horsf. Zool. Research, Java, 



text to pi. 60 (1824). 

 Centiopus ca^tanopterus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 215 (1826) ; 



Heifer, J. A. S. Beng. 1838, p. 802 ; Smith, op. fit. 1841, p. 658. 

 Centropus philippeusis [vcc Cur.), Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 98; 



McClelland, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 166 ; Bltjtk, J. A. S. Bern/. 1842, 



p. 1090, 1843, p. 246, 1844, p. 945, 1845, p. 202 ; -S'. Midi. Verh. 



Land- en Volk. p. 405 (1839-44) ; Bhjth, Ann. S,- May. Nat. Hist. 



1847, p. 385; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 78 (1849) ; Layard, Ann. 



Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 450 ; Motley S,- Dillivyn, Contr. Xat. 



Hist.' Lahuan, p. 54 (1855) ; Irh,,, Ibis, 1861, p. 230; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 209. 



