24. RHOPOTIYTES. 391 



n-u. c^ad. ; v-y. Klannf, Jan. -March, July Hume Coll. 



$ ad. sk. ( W. Davhon). 



z. Ad. sk. Malacca {Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



«'-?■'. Ad. sk. Malacca, July, Aug. {W. Hume Coll. 



Davison), 



h', V, m'. S ad. ; Malacca, Aug. {R. G. W. E.). Tweeddale Coll. 



n'. 2 <id. sk. 



o',p','/'- cJad. ; Pulo Seban, Oct., Nov. ( fF. Hume Coll 



»■'■ 2 ad. sk. Daviso7j). 



s'. Ad. sk. Chohoiig, Nov. (IF. Damon). Hume Coll. 



f, 11. J ad. ; v'. Kurroo, Nov. ( W. Davison). Hume Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 



w'-c". cJ 2 ad. Nealys, Oct. ( W. Davison). Hume Coll, 



sk. 



d". Ad. sk. Singapore Island. Hume Coll. 



e"-p". (S $ ad. Sumatra, Sept., Oct. (A. R. Tweeddale Coll. 



et juv. sk. Wallace tV C. Boch). 



q", r", s". Ad. Lampong, S.E. Sumatra {£. Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. C. Buxton). 



6. Rhopodytes sumatranus. 



Cuculus sumatranus, Raffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 287 (1822) ; 



SfricM. J. A. S. Bern/, xiii. p. 391, note (1844). 

 Phcenicophaus sumatranus, Viq. Mem. Raffi. p. 671 (1830) ; Blyth, 



J. A. 8. Ben;/, xiv. p. 199 (1845). 

 PLcenicopliaus crawfurdii, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. i. p. 3, pi. 3 



(1831) ; Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. lOo. 

 Zauclostomus crawfiu'dii. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 460 (1845). 

 Zanclostomus sumatranus, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 460 (1845) ; Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 76 (1849) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E.I. Co. ii. p. 689 (1856-58) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 458; Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1863, p. 208 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 207, no. 8884 



(1870) ; Br'uyy. Abhandl. nut. Ver. Bremen, i. p. 455 (1877), 



V. p. 455 (18S2). 

 Melias sumatranus, Bp. Cunsp. Vol. Zygod. p. 5 (1854). 

 Rhopodvtes sumati-anus, Cah. Sf Heine, Mus. Sein. iv. p. 62 (1862) ; 



Salvad. Ucc. Borneo, p. 73 (1874); Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 245; 



Hwne, Str. F. viii. pp. 54, 89 (1879) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 393 ; 



Blasins, J.f. O. 1882, p. 246 ; A. Miill. t. c. p. 409 ; Blasius, Verh. 



zool.-hot. Ges. Wien, xxxii. ]i. 23 (1883) ; Everett, Jutirn. Straits 



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

 Cuculus cristatus, " Licht. MS.," Cab. <$■ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 62 



(1862). 

 Poliococcyx sumatranus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 606, fig. 14 (head), 



1875, p. 104; Hu7)ie, Str. F. iii. p. 319 (1875); Oates, Handh. B. 



Brit. Burmah, ii. p. 123 (1883) ; Sliarpe, Ibis, 1890, ]). 13. 



Adult. General plumage above slaty grey : crown and back of 

 neck with black hair-like shafts to the feathers, and with a slight 

 gloss of green which increases in brilliancy on the back, wings, and 

 tail, the quills and outer tail-feathers inclining to bluish black ; all 

 the tail-feathers with moderately broad white ends; ophthalmic 

 bare patch rugose and orange-red, separated from the culmcn by 

 a narrow band of short black feathers ; throat slaty grey, slightly 



