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22. ZANCLOSTOMUS. 



Type. 



Zanclostomus, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 323 (1837) Z. javanicus. 



Range. From Southern Tenasserim down the Malaj'an jDoninsula 

 to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



1. Zanclostomus javanicus. 



Phcenicophaes javanicus, Sorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 178 (1822) ; 

 id. Zool. Research. Java, pi. 57 (1824) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 216 

 (1826) ; Vig. Mem. Raffl. p. 070 (1830) ; Less. Traite, p. 132 

 (1831); Eijton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105; Schl. Mm. Pays-Bas, 

 Cuculi, p. 55 (1864). 



Coccyzus rubiirostris, Drap. Did. Hist. Nat. iv. p. 558 (1823). 



Piaj'a cbiysogaster, Cuv.,Less. TrazVe, p.l40 (1831); S. Mull. Land- 

 en Volk. p. 234 (1839-44) ; Pucker. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, 

 p. 67. 



Piaya erytlirorhyncha, Less. Traite, p. 141 (1831) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 

 Mus. As. Soc, App. p. xix (1852). 



Zanclostomus javanicus, Sicains. Class. B. ii. p. 323 (1837); Blyth, 

 J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 1097 (1842), xiv. p. 200 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. 

 ii. p. 4G0 (1845) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 76 (1849) ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 99 (1850) ; Korsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. L Co. ii. 

 p. 688 (1856-58) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 458 ; Cah. !^- Heine, 

 Mus. Hein. iv. p. 64 (1862) ; Gray, Hand-l. B.ii. p. 206, no. 8730 

 (1870) ; Shajpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 606, fig. 13; Salvad. Ucc. Borneo, 

 p. 75 (1874) ; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 472 (1874) ; Blyth .5- Wald. 

 Cat. Mamm. ^ B. Burma, p. 81 (1875); Tweedd. Ihis, 1877, 

 p. 287; Hume, Str. F. vi. pp. 167, 506 (1878), viii. pp. 54, 89 

 (1879); Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 245; id. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 793; 

 Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, p. 54 ; ^. Miill. J. f. O. 1882, p. 409 ; Blasius, 

 Verh. zoo/.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 33 (1883) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 

 1883, p. 87 ; Gates, Handh. B. Brit. Burmah, ii. p. 125 (1883) ; 

 Everett, Journ. Straits Branch R. Asiat. Soc. 1889, p. 175; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, _1890,_p. 13. 



Melias javanicus, 5^>. Consp. Tol. Zyr/od. p. 5 (1854). 



Adidt. Above leaden grey, very strongly glossed with bluish 

 green on the mantle, wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail ; the featliers 

 of the forehead and crown with elongated black hair-like shafts ; a 

 small patch of bare skin round the eye bright blue ; cheeks and 

 throat tawny buff; chest leaden grey, slightly washed with buff; 

 abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts chestnut ; under surface of 

 the wings blue-grey, partially mottled with rufous buff on the 

 coverts : " bill bright coral-red, gape duller ; iris blackish brown ; 

 legs plumbeous green " {Davison). Total length 18 inches, culmen 

 l-.3o, wing 5-5, tail 10-7, tarsus 1-3. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a, b. Ad. sk. 



Java {Horsfield). 



c, d. S $ ad. sk. Java {A. R. Wallace), 

 e. Ad. sk. Borneo. 



/. 5 fid. sk. Matang, Sarawak, April (H. 



Everett). 



India Museum. 

 (Types of the species.) 



Rajah Brooke [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



