18. CENTR0PTJ8. 



353 



A. Mull. J.f. 0. 1882, p. 410; Oates, Handb. B, Brit. Bunnah, 

 ii. p. 127 (1883) ; id. ed. Hume's Nests ^ Bgys, ii. p. 40G (1890). 



Centropus rectunguis, pt., Sc/d. Mus. Pam-Bas, Ciiculi, p. 09 

 (1804). 



Ceutrococcyx dimidiatus, Wald. Trans, Z. S. viii. p. 59 (1872). 



Adult male in hreeding-plumage. General plumage black, with 

 the wings and interscapular region chestnut ; head, neck, and under 

 surface of the body glossed with purplish blue and with glossy 

 black shafts to the feathers ; lower back and tail glossed with green, 

 the feathers of the latter with narrow whitish ends ; wings and 

 interscapular region bright chestnut, contrasting sharply with the 

 blue-black of the hind neck ; a few of tho wing-coverts with white 

 shafts ; ends of the quills brown ; inner secondaries slightly washed 

 with brown ; under wing-coverts rufous : bill and legs black ; iris 

 crimson. Total length 14 inches, culmen I'l, wing 6-6, tail 7"5, 

 tarsus 1"6, 



Adult female in hreeding-plumage. Similar to the male. Total 

 length l4-8 inches, culmen 1-1, wing <d-Q, tail 8'6, tarsus 1-6. 



Adult female in seasonal plumage. The feathers of the crown, back 

 of neck, and mantle dark brown, washed with rufous on the edges and 

 with buff shaft-stripes ; wings and tail as in summer plumage, the 

 latter with rufous-buff ends to the feathers ; lower back and upper 

 tail-coverts narrowly barred with rufous ; throat and underparts 

 buff, with glossy buff shafts to the feathers aud with dusky wavv 

 bars, most complete and numerous on the sides of the body and 

 thighs, absent on the chin and down the centre of bodj^ ; vent and 

 under tail-coverts greenish black barred with buff, the dark bars on 

 these parts being wider than the buff' oues ; under wing-coverts 

 rufous like the quills, the latter with brown ends : bill yellow, 

 shading into dark brown on the culmen ; legs black. Total length 

 15-5 inches, culmen l-l, wing 0-7, tail 8*0, tarsus 1-15. 



Adult male in seasonal plumage. Similar in plumage to the female. 



Hah. Southern India : Eastern Himalayas to Eastern Bengal, 

 Assam, the Burmese Countries to Southern China and Formosa. 



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Nepal (B. H. Hodgson). 

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MandelU). 

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Mandelli). 

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Buxa Dear;*, .lau. (Z. Ma7i- 



delli). 

 Bhotan Doars, Nov., Dec, 



April, May (Z. Mandelli). 

 Assam {McClelland). 



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