18. CENTROPPS. 



355 



Centrococcyx javaueusis, Walden, Tra)is. Z. s. viii. pp. 58,00 (l872j; 



id. Ibis, 1872, p. 3(37 ; >Sah-ad, Ucc. Born. p. 7(3 (i874) ; id. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. Go I (1875); Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 34; 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 188 (1879) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 



1881, p. 141, 1883, p. 241 ; Blusius, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. p. 2G3 



(188-3) ; i:veretf, F. Z. -S'. 1889, p. 226 ; S/iarjje, Ibis, 1890, p. 14 ; 



Everett, Journ. Straits Branch As. Soc. 1889, p. 175. 

 Ceutrococcyx medius, Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. pp. 57, 58 (1872) ; 



Salvad. Ann. Miis. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 702 (1875), xiii. p. 463 (1878) ; 



id. Orn. Bajniasia, i. p. 375 (1880). 

 Centropus bengalensis, var. javauica, Brligg. Ahhandl. nat. Ver. 



Brem. v. p. 61 (1876). 

 Centropus javauensis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 940 ; id, P. Z, S. 1879, 



p. 328. 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. Similar to C. hengalemis, but 

 may be readily distinguished by the darker and browner colouring 

 of the upper back, scapulars, and inner secondaries, which colour 

 passes almost imperceptibly into the greenish black of the neck, 

 these colours being sharply defined in C. hengalensis ; the head, 

 neck, and body arc glossed with green, more like the colour of the 

 tail than in C. hengalensis. Total length lG-3 inches, culm en 1*3, 

 wing G-3, tarsus 1'7. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 14 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 6*3, tail 8, tarsus 1-65. 



The seasonal plumage is similar to that of G. hengalensis, and in 

 both species lasts from Xovember till April. The present species 

 varies greatly in size, as the following measurements will show : — 



Total 



length. 



in. 



Ct-ram, 5 ad 18'3 



Leyte, juv 12*1 



Singapore 12'2 



Culmen. Wing. 



1-5 

 10 

 10 



7-8 

 5-4 

 5-3 



Tail, 

 in. 

 9-8 

 6-9 

 6-5 



Tarsus 

 in. 

 1-9 

 1-5 

 1-4 



Hab. Eastern Bengal and the Burmese countries to China, south 

 through the Malayan Peninsula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the 

 Philippines, Celebes, and the Moluccas. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Imm. sk. 



c. Imm. sk. 



d. Imm. sk. 



e-k. Ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 /. cJ imm. sk. 



>n. c? imm. sk. 



u. 2 jr. sk. 

 o. Inini. sk. 

 p. 2 imm. sk. 

 y. Imm. sk. 



Khasia Hills (Griffith). 

 Dibrughur, Assam. 

 Tipperah Hills, Jan. 

 Thayetmvo, Nov. {^E. W. 



Dates). 

 Lower Pegu, Dec, Jan., April, 



Aug. 

 KoUidoo, Tenasserim, Nov. 



( W. Davison). 

 Tlioiingyeen Forest, March 



(C. T. Binijham). 

 Tavo}', March ( W. Davison). 

 Bankasoon, Feb.( W. Davison). 

 Malewoon, April ( W.Davisoti]. 

 .Siam. 



India Museum. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Gates CoU. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



H>ame Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 •Zk2 



