2(). piKENicornAiis. 39n 



c*-e\ 2 ad.sk. Lampongr, S.E. Sumatra (7:-'. C. Tweeddale Coll. 



JJuxtoit). 



/',(/'. Ad. sk. Borneo. RaiabBrookeCoU. 



//',''• c? 2ad.sk. Liibimn {Sir Hvf/h Low). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



k\ I'. cJad. ; m', Lumbidau (H. Low). Seebohm Coll. 



m'. 5 ad. sk. 



o'. cJ ad. ;p\ qK Sarawak {H. Everett). Seeboom Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 



»•'. $ ad. sk. Mnrup, Sarawak (//. Everett). Socbolini Coll. 



s', ^', m'. Ad.sk. Baujarinassiug (J. il/o/Ze?/). Tweeddale Coll. 



26. PHCENICOPHAES. 



Type. 



Phociiicopbaiis, T teilL Analyse, pp. 27, 70 (1816). P. pyrrhocephalus. 

 Melias, Oloyer in Froriep's Notizen, xvi. p. 278 



(1827) P. pyrrhocepbalus. 



Aleetorops, /. S,- E. Vei-r. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, 



p. 356 P. pyn-bocepbalus, 



Sanc/e. Confined to Ceylon. 



1. Phoenicophaes pyrrhocephahis. 



Cuculus pyrrbocephalus, Forst. Ind. Zool. p. 16, pi. G (1781) ; Gm. 

 Si/st. Nat. i. f. 417 (1788) ; Lat/i. Ind. Orn. i. p. 222 (1790) ; 

 fi^aUl. Ibis, 1869, p. 337. 



Le Malkoba, LevaiU. Ois. Afr. v. p. 90, pi. 224 (180G) ; Sundev. 

 Krit. Framst. Levaill. p. 49' (1857). 



Phteuicophaius pyrrhocephalus, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 59 (1815) ; 

 Vieill. X. Did. xviii. p. 461 (1816) ; id. Ene. Meth. p. 1340 (1823) ; 

 id. Gul. Oi.s. pi. 37 (1825) ; Eli/fh, J. A. S. Benq. xi. p. 927 (1842), 

 xiv. p. 199 (1845) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p.75 (1849); 

 Lai/ard, Ann. l^ Ma//. Nat. His/. 1854, xiii. p. 453 ; Cab. S^- Heine, 

 M'ti.<. Ilein. iv. p. 68 (1862); Sehl. Mus. I'atjs-Bas, Cuculi,p. 53 

 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 205, no. 8865 (1870) ; Ilohhtcortfi, 

 r. Z. S. 1872, p. 433; IVahl. Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 52, fig. 8, head 

 (1872) ; Sliarpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 605, fig. 11 ; Hume, op. cit. viii. 

 p. 89 (1879) ; Ler/ge, B. Ceylon, p. 255, pi. 12 (1880) ; Parhei; 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 184. 



Phoenicophajus leuCogaster, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 00 (1815) ; 

 Vieill. N. Dirt, xviii. p. 461 (1816). 



JNIelias pyrrhocephalus. Less. IVaitc, p. 131 (1831). 



Pbff nicophaus cevlonensis, Licht. in mus. BeroL ; Cab, Sf Heine, Mtts. 

 Hein. iv. p. 68 (1862). 



Adult male. Forehead and entire sides of head red, denuded of 

 true feathers, but rugose especially over the eye and towards the 

 bill ; crown and back and sides of neck black streaked with white 

 terminal edges to the feathers, which are of peculiar form, as they 

 end in a fork, the end portion of their shafts being huir-likc and 

 denuded of webs ; back, wings, and tail deep glossy green, partially 

 shaded with violet-blue on the quills ; tail-feathers with broad 

 white cuds ; chin, lores, and cheeks white, with black shaft-stripea 



