390 CUCULID^. 



5. Rhopodytes diardi. 



Melias diardi, Less. Traite, p. 132 (1831) ; Pucher. Eev. et Mag. 



Zool. 1853, p. 65. 

 Plioenicophaus tristis (nee Less.), McCleU. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 166; 



Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 928, xii. p. 246 (1843). 

 Phcenicophaiis siimatranus {nee Paffl.), Blyth, J. A. S. Bene/, xii. 



p. 246 (1843) ; ScM. Mus. Pmjs-Bas, Cuculi, p. 63 (pt., 1864) ; 



Snelleman in Veth's Midden-Siimatra, Voff. p. 34 (1884). 

 Phoenicopbaus diardi, Blyth, J. A. 8. Beng. xv. p. 199 (1845) ; Schl. 



Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuciili, p. 54 (1864). 

 Zanclostomus diardi, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 460 (1846), iii. App. p. 23 



(1849) ; Bes Murs. Iconuqr. Orn. pi. 19 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 76 (1849) ; Horsf. Sf Mooie, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. 



Co. ii. p. 690 (1856-68); Moore,P.Z.S. 1859, p. 468; Blyth ^ 



Wald. Cat. Mamm. ^- B. Burma, p. 81 (1875). 

 Phcenicophaeus nigriventris, Peale, U.S. E.t2)l. Exped. pp. 140, 141, 



pi. 39. eg. 1 (1848). 

 Zanclostomus siimatranus, juv. (nee Raff,.), Bf. Consp. i. p. 99 (1850). 

 PlicBnicophaus nigriventris, Hartl. Arch, f, Nat. XTiii. p. 107 



(1852). 

 Kbopodytes diardi, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 61 (1862) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 604, fig. 9 (head) ; Jfiime, Str. F. iii. p. 319 



(1875) ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 287 ; Hume, Sir. F. vi. p. 168, 



viii. pp. 54, 89 ; Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 186 (1879) ; 



Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, p. 53; Oates, Handb. B. Brit. Bicrmah, ii. 



p. 122 (1883) ; Bilttik. Notes Leyden Mus. 1886, p. 31 ; Everett, 



Journ, Straits Branch R. Asiat. Soc. 1889, p. 174. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper parts dark olive-shaded 

 grey, the feathers of the head and neck with black shafts with hair- 

 like ends ; wings and tail glossj' blackish olive, slightly shaded 

 with blue, the latter with white ends to the feathers ; throat ashy 

 grey, with narrow black shafts to the feathers, gradually darkening 

 into dusky black on the lower breast, flanks, abdomen, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts dusky ; quills imiform glossy 

 blue-black; bare ophthalmic patch rugose and crimson, with a 

 patch of short black feathers close to the nostril : " bill pale green ; 

 iris dark brown ; legs dark plumbeous green " (Davison). Total 

 length 14 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 5, tail 8-2, tarsus 1-3. 



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

 14"3 inches, culmen 1"4, wing 5, tail 9, tarsus 1"4. 



Hub. From Southern Tenasserim, down the Malayan Peninsula 

 to Sumatra. 



a. 2 *^d. sk. Usheetherrpone, Tenasserim Hume Coll. 



River, Nov. ( W. Davison). 



b. cT ad. sk. Hankachin, Feb. ( W. Davi- Hume Coll. 



son). 

 c-g. (S $ ad. sk. Bankasoon, March to June Hume Coll. 



( W. Daiison). 

 h,i. cJad. ;7c, $ Malewoon, Dec., Jan. {TV. Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. Davison). 



I. (S ad. sk. Kossoum, May (J. Darling). Hume Coll. 



9w.Ad.sk, Perak, March (A'e^i^fo/i), ' Forbes Coll. 



